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Speaker 2: They have to spit in the face of the police
Speaker 2: as the police are standing up there in uniform. They're
Speaker 2: standing and they're screaming at them an inch away from
Speaker 2: their face, and then they start spitting in their face.
Speaker 2: And I said, you tell them you spit and we
Speaker 2: hit and they can hit real hard. It's a disgusting thing.
Speaker 2: I've watched that for years, for three or four years,
Speaker 2: I've watched them. The police are staying and they're told
Speaker 2: don't do anything under any such of this, and you can.
Speaker 3: See they want to get at it.
Speaker 2: And they're standing there and people are spitting in their
Speaker 2: face and they're not allowed to do anything. But now
Speaker 2: they are allowed to do whatever the hell they want.
Speaker 1: They welcome back to policy and rates. Here in Depictions
Speaker 1: Media Radio, I'm your host. Michael cloggs. Okay, we just
Speaker 1: heard a disturbing thing from Dinald Trump telling cops to
Speaker 1: do their worst or attack citizens. That, Okay, I really
Speaker 1: do believe this that mister Trump has forgotten something or
Speaker 1: he never grasps the idea that being a politician and
Speaker 1: being President of the United States is a state of
Speaker 1: service to the people of the United States of America,
Speaker 1: that he is there to serve them, not to rule them.
Speaker 1: It was one of the purposes of democracy and one
Speaker 1: of the things that was put into put into the Constitution,
Speaker 1: according to Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, the
Speaker 1: writers of that Constitution, and the reason why they allowed
Speaker 1: for amendments later on to ensure that the Constitution itself
Speaker 1: would be a living document so that the people could
Speaker 1: live freely according to the time that they're in, according
Speaker 1: to the issues and the problems that exist within the
Speaker 1: society of the day that this document is existing in.
Speaker 1: The police should not be attacking people. The President of
Speaker 1: the United States should not be trying to take over
Speaker 1: the metropolice for the District of Columbia so that he
Speaker 1: can quote unquote protect the people. No, it is to
Speaker 1: protect himself.
Speaker 4: His whole.
Speaker 1: Administration is wrapped around his own greed. The first chance
Speaker 1: that we get to get rid of this monster, we
Speaker 1: should okay, moving on to other things, and we're going
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about the the tariffs from
Speaker 1: Canada to China, and of course Asian markets are are
Speaker 1: are a big thing. British Columbia actually exports a lot
Speaker 1: of goods back and forth, has had significant trade trade
Speaker 1: agreements with China and other Asian countries and it helps
Speaker 1: a lot of different industries, creates jobs, and but we
Speaker 1: do need to ensure that the limitations are put to
Speaker 1: it so that we're not we're creating jobs, we're creating
Speaker 1: balance and and moving forward. So we're gonna hear from
Speaker 1: Pierre Povier as he is going to talk about this
Speaker 1: the kind of interesting part about and being the leader
Speaker 1: of the Conservative Party. He has yet to find a
Speaker 1: seat back on Parliament and from what I understand back
Speaker 1: to Alberta again that even with an elongated ballad, he's
Speaker 1: still not going to do so well that the Conservative
Speaker 1: people they just aren't. They keep prop some keep propping
Speaker 1: him back up. But he needs to do what Justin
Speaker 1: Trudeau did with the Liberals. Step down, find a new
Speaker 1: person to guide them, because new times are coming. The
Speaker 1: pandemics are over there, there are new things to be
Speaker 1: dealt with and it needs fresh eyes. The NDP party
Speaker 1: has Jack Mead Singh has stepped away so that they
Speaker 1: can find new leadership and new guidance, so that Hm,
Speaker 1: I hate to hate to say this, so that Canada
Speaker 1: can remain great. Don't take read too much into that,
Speaker 1: because Canada, while it is probably one of the best
Speaker 1: countries to live in, isn't isn't really great. But it's
Speaker 1: up and coming. It's doing things for human rights, it's
Speaker 1: doing things for the people, and we need to make
Speaker 1: sure that it keeps doing things for the people, keeps
Speaker 1: working with the people. And there's got to be a
Speaker 1: balance and there's gotta be new eyes on new issues.
Speaker 1: And I think Peter Polviier is so engrossed with wanting
Speaker 1: to be in power that he has lost track of
Speaker 1: the site of Again, his job is to serve the people,
Speaker 1: not to control the people. That his job isn't about
Speaker 1: what he can get out of it is what he
Speaker 1: can offer the people. So with that, we're actually gonna
Speaker 1: hear from him in this particular podcast episode as he
Speaker 1: talks about taris in China. But I want to get
Speaker 1: back to human rights because really that that is what
Speaker 1: depictions media is about. This is what this show is about.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk about Haiti because Haiti, we're literally
Speaker 1: talking about human rights being interrupted by gang violence and
Speaker 1: it has been continued to be This has been an
Speaker 1: ongoing issue ever since a series of earthquakes and storms
Speaker 1: struck Haiti and well, of course we have the tale
Speaker 1: of two of two countries on the same island. The
Speaker 1: Dominican Republic has thrived through this, where Haiti has faltered
Speaker 1: due to gang violence. And with that gang violence in Mayhem,
Speaker 1: they have failed the people to come back online again
Speaker 1: with clean water and food and meeting of basic needs.
Speaker 1: Things are being interrupted to the average person and where
Speaker 1: humanitarian efforts aren't able to even get off the docks
Speaker 1: because of the level of gang violence. And this is
Speaker 1: based on a United Nations report heavily armed gang members
Speaker 1: killing police officers. The National Police stated officers were killed
Speaker 1: while trying to escape from their armed vehicle which have
Speaker 1: been struck in a gang constructed ditch. Of my apologies
Speaker 1: that would be stuck in a gang constructed ditch. The
Speaker 1: Humanitarian efforts coordinator from the United Nations, Eureka Richardson, indicated
Speaker 1: to one point three million people are displaced due to
Speaker 1: gang violence and humanitarian response plan is only nine percent funded.
Speaker 1: Again because of the gang violence, the government itself is
Speaker 1: having a very difficult time quelling the gangs and curbing
Speaker 1: what is happening in that country. We hope that things
Speaker 1: do actually turn around and that Haiti finds its way too,
Speaker 1: and the government finds its way to actually helping the
Speaker 1: people at hand. It is the average citizen that the
Speaker 1: government is supposed to serve, and we need to remember
Speaker 1: that government is supposed to serve, not control, so that
Speaker 1: we can live better and live enriched lives, enlightened lives.
Speaker 1: So we're also going to hear from the United Nations
Speaker 1: Press Center as they talk about ongoing issues with sexual
Speaker 1: violence as it is being perpetrated in war torn areas,
Speaker 1: battle zones, and how it is affecting the women in
Speaker 1: these battle zones, the non combatant women especially. So let's
Speaker 1: move forward and we'll start off with hearing from Pierre
Speaker 1: Polvier as he talks about the tarifs and other issues
Speaker 1: that he sees with going on with Canada and working
Speaker 1: with the Liberal Party.
Speaker 5: Thanks everyone for being here. I'm afraid I'm gonna have
Speaker 5: a very bad hair day, so get ready. This is
Speaker 5: quite a.
Speaker 3: Prairie wind we have.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much to sixteen Grains for hosting us
Speaker 5: today in their incredible farm.
Speaker 4: They had some great rain. Now they need some heat.
Speaker 5: Units to finish off these crops and have a great year.
Speaker 5: I want to thank our incredible team of MPs. We
Speaker 5: have Brad Retakopp who's been working very hard on getting
Speaker 5: foreign credentials recognized so that our immigrant doctors and nurses
Speaker 5: can get working. Kevin Waugh, a legendary broadcaster and someone
Speaker 5: who's been championing Canadian heritage and our common identity. Corey Tucker,
Speaker 5: a master in the matter of nuclear power, which will
Speaker 5: be very important. Rosemary Falk a champion of the farming communities,
Speaker 5: of family values and of the West.
Speaker 4: We have Michael.
Speaker 5: Kram, a hard working, young, very young member of Parliament
Speaker 5: who of course was the Giant Slayer and is doing
Speaker 5: great work championing the people of Regina.
Speaker 3: From was Canta.
Speaker 5: And my personal favorite, my cousin, my own cousin, Kelly Block,
Speaker 5: who's hosting us in her riding today on Kelly. This
Speaker 5: visit brings back many memories of coming to visit both
Speaker 5: my mother and my father's side of the family, coming
Speaker 5: out to our cousin's farms across the Saskatchewan but general
Speaker 5: in the vicinity of Saskatoon.
Speaker 4: My parents are both Saskatchewanians.
Speaker 5: And so as we were driving here from Alberta yesterday,
Speaker 5: I was attempted to say to our team, are we
Speaker 5: there yet?
Speaker 4: Which is what we used to say again and again
Speaker 4: as kids.
Speaker 5: But before we get started, I speak on behalf of
Speaker 5: all Canadians when we lock arms in solidarity with all
Speaker 5: of our fellow Canadians who are facing evacuations as a
Speaker 5: result of while fires that are striking so many communities
Speaker 5: across this country. I want to thank the first responders,
Speaker 5: the military members and all others who are chipping in
Speaker 5: to help out to protect property and people and to
Speaker 5: fight these fires, and conservatives that call on the federal
Speaker 5: government to offer any support that either local communities or
Speaker 5: provinces are seeking in order to combat this continued menace.
Speaker 5: People across the country are suffering with this, but here
Speaker 5: in the Prairies, of course, in the last forty eight hours,
Speaker 5: people have had a new problem, and that is that
Speaker 5: the Chinese government has announced yet another unfair round of tariffs,
Speaker 5: this time charging a canola seed. They've already gone after
Speaker 5: oil and meal, and this is of course another unfair
Speaker 5: attack on our Western producers who many of whom were
Speaker 5: having a fantastic growing season and looking forward to a
Speaker 5: bumper crop.
Speaker 3: That crop is.
Speaker 5: Now facing tariffs from one of our our biggest customers.
Speaker 5: That these tariffs are unfair and unjustified, and we lament
Speaker 5: the fact that Mark Karney has been so silent and
Speaker 5: so weak, failing to stand up for our farmers against
Speaker 5: these tariffs. Meanwhile, he Carney continues to provide a billion
Speaker 5: dollar taxpayer backed loan for BC Ferries to buy Chinese
Speaker 5: made vessels. Can you imagine that the sign of weakness
Speaker 5: that Carney is sending to the dictatorship in Beijing. You
Speaker 5: tax and tariff our farmers and we'll give you a
Speaker 5: billion dollar loan to create jobs in your country. That
Speaker 5: kind of weakness has led to failure after failure. Remember
Speaker 5: Mark Karney promised that he was an international man of
Speaker 5: mystery who is going to negotiate deals and end tariffs. Well,
Speaker 5: what's the result been so far? Let's start south of
Speaker 5: the border. Since my Prime Minister Carney took office, the
Speaker 5: America have doubled tariffs on Canada while they signed deals
Speaker 5: with Europe, Japan and other countries. They have increased penalties
Speaker 5: and increased the number of tariffs. Meanwhile, Mark Karney has
Speaker 5: made concession after concession, removing the digital services tack and
Speaker 5: counter tariffs while getting absolutely nothing in return. He sent
Speaker 5: his ministers to Mexico to try and get a bilateral
Speaker 5: deal with them. The Mexican send the liberals packing. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's done photo ops in Europe, but he hasn't got
Speaker 5: any deals. While the Americans have signed the deal to
Speaker 5: sell seven hundred and fifty billion dollars of their energy
Speaker 5: products to the Europeans, not a single dollar of European
Speaker 5: commitment to buy Canadian energy. It seems like since Prime
Speaker 5: Minister Carney took office it has been American tariffs up
Speaker 5: and Liberal elbows down. We are seeing a back down
Speaker 5: and a failure. But we take no delight in this
Speaker 5: because as Carnie fails abroad, Canadians.
Speaker 3: Pay the price at home.
Speaker 5: Here in Canada, things are not changing as he promised
Speaker 5: they would. In fact, they are actually getting worse. In
Speaker 5: replacing Justin Trudeau, he claimed that things would be different. Well,
Speaker 5: they're different only in that they continue to worsen. There
Speaker 5: have been many grand announcements, high profiled meetings, and grand statements,
Speaker 5: but none of the results promised. Government spending is growing
Speaker 5: faster than ever, faster than when Justin Trudeau was Prime Minister.
Speaker 5: Inflation and the cost of living continue to rise. Housing costs,
Speaker 5: which had already doubled, are now rising faster than before,
Speaker 5: and we see that the home building numbers are worse
Speaker 5: today even after Connie promised that he would double them.
Speaker 5: Crime rages in our streets as catch and release laws
Speaker 5: still release the most dangerous monsters to terrorize our communities.
Speaker 5: Carney has kept Justin Trudeau's out of control immigration numbers worse.
Speaker 5: The Liberal government has lost track of six hundred foreign
Speaker 5: criminals with records of committing crime in Canada who should
Speaker 5: have been deported but are now wandering our streets. God
Speaker 5: knows where doing, God knows what low wage temporary foreign
Speaker 5: workers take jobs and drive wages down for our youth.
Speaker 5: No major projects such as pipelines have been proposed, approved
Speaker 5: or begun construction. His energy cap, Carney's energy cap, industrial
Speaker 5: carbon tax, and continued support for banning pipelines for the
Speaker 5: laws that bann pipeline are keeping our resources in the
Speaker 5: ground and making us more dependent than ever on the Americans.
Speaker 5: So much for you know, he said it was going
Speaker 5: to be build, baby build. So far it's been block,
Speaker 5: baby block. He's not actually getting anything built. He's all
Speaker 5: talk and no action. Things are not different, They are
Speaker 5: getting worse, and there's more trouble ahead. Mark Carney's promised
Speaker 5: to ban your gas truck and car, which a ban
Speaker 5: that begins phasing in in just.
Speaker 3: Months from today.
Speaker 5: It will kill jobs, balloon cost and grind rural communities
Speaker 5: to a halt. Farmers, ranchers, resource workers would not be
Speaker 5: able to do their jobs because evs don't work over
Speaker 5: long distances and in cold weather. It would literally erase
Speaker 5: many small towns from the map. Now a lot of
Speaker 5: people will say that is hyperbole, but I asked the
Speaker 5: farmers here today, could the rural communities across the prairies
Speaker 5: actually continue to go on if they had to drive
Speaker 5: exclusively electric vehicles? Could that run on an electric battery?
Speaker 5: How could you move your grain to markets? How could
Speaker 5: you do the regular work that's required. I'd have a
Speaker 5: pickup truck in minus forty degree weather in February.
Speaker 3: It is simply not possible.
Speaker 5: What Mark Carney was doing by banning gas vehicles is
Speaker 5: he is banning the rural way of life communities across
Speaker 5: across Western Canada, rural Ontario, e com Prio, Quebec, and
Speaker 5: then the rural Atlantic would be gone. And forget about
Speaker 5: the north northern territories of our country where this pipe
Speaker 5: dream would be impossible. There's not even the electrical inf infrastructure.
Speaker 5: It would cost three hundred billion dollars to put in
Speaker 5: place the electrical charging stations and transmission networks to actually
Speaker 5: do that, which would be thousands of dollars of costs
Speaker 5: in higher taxes and prices for consumers, for every single family.
Speaker 5: And not only would it eliminate rural communities, it would
Speaker 5: eliminate our auto sector.
Speaker 3: And don't take my word for it.
Speaker 5: I want to quote from a letter by automotive manufacturers
Speaker 5: who said, and I quote this is a letter to
Speaker 5: mister Carnee to which he has not even responded, there
Speaker 5: is no lot longer a pathway to achieving The government's
Speaker 5: mandate at sale was leveled the tent in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: If the mandate is not urgently repealed, it will inflict
Speaker 5: serious damage on automakers, the.
Speaker 6: Dealership network, and the hundreds of thousands of Canadians Canadians
Speaker 6: employed in the sector. The result of this regulation is
Speaker 6: lower vehicles that has higher prices.
Speaker 3: For Canadians at less jobs for the sector.
Speaker 7: The heads of the measure manufacturers are not the only
Speaker 7: ones sound to be along. Year fifty untilled mayors have
Speaker 7: written mister Varney telling him to scrap this ban, warning
Speaker 7: that close self.
Speaker 2: Inflicted arm in quote will.
Speaker 5: Damage jobs and include investment in their communities. Yet, starting
Speaker 5: in just a few months, on January first, the Carnei
Speaker 5: mandate the carnivan on your gas vehicle will begin to
Speaker 5: be phased in. It will require twenty percent of dealership
Speaker 5: sales to be electric, and any car sold above that
Speaker 5: quota will pay a twenty thousand dollars tax. I call
Speaker 5: it the Carnie tax. The Liberals mandate would continue to
Speaker 5: worsen as years go by until twenty thirty five, when gas.
Speaker 3: Vehicles would be banned altogether.
Speaker 5: The autoestra industry is already under enormous stress after Mark
Speaker 5: Carney broke his promise to get a July twenty first,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five deal with to end the tariffs imposed
Speaker 5: by the United States. The last thing they need is
Speaker 5: a job killing, price hiking gas vehicle banned.
Speaker 3: The CIA found that all.
Speaker 5: Electric vehicles can lose forty percent of their power during
Speaker 5: cold winters. Evs that are comparable in utility and function
Speaker 5: to their gas powered vehicles, on average, cost about twenty
Speaker 5: thousand dollars more. Consumers should be free to choose the
Speaker 5: car or truck that they drive. They should be able
Speaker 5: to decide for themselves what they buy and how they
Speaker 5: get around. And yet we know that Mark Carney's plan
Speaker 5: will punish them for making those choices and, according to
Speaker 5: the Canadian Journal of Economics, kill thirty eight thousand jobs
Speaker 5: across this country. That is why, that is why I
Speaker 5: am announcing today the Conservatives are launching a massive nationwide
Speaker 5: campaign to stop Mark Carney's ban on gas powered vehicles.
Speaker 5: This campaign will include motions in Parliament, pressure campaigns in
Speaker 5: local Liberal MP ridings, press conferences and events at car
Speaker 5: dealerships across Canada, petitions and other activities that will mobilize
Speaker 5: Canadians to maintain their right to decide what car they
Speaker 5: can afford and.
Speaker 3: What car works for them. It's time to put.
Speaker 5: It's time to put Canadians back in the driver's seat.
Speaker 5: It's time to put Canadians back in the driver's seats.
Speaker 5: So that they can decide what life they want to live.
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Speaker 5: it's time to put Canadians back in charge of their lives.
Speaker 5: And you know, it brings back a lot of not
Speaker 5: just memories of those road trips and the visit to
Speaker 5: the farm, but when we used to come out here
Speaker 5: from Calgary, driving that distance to visit family here. My
Speaker 5: parents told me that the opportunity in this country was
Speaker 5: as big as the prairie sky. That if I wanted
Speaker 5: something of life, I just had to work hard for it,
Speaker 5: and it was possible here in Canada. That's the country
Speaker 5: that we've lost over the last ten years. But the
Speaker 5: good news is we as Conservatives, are going to fight
Speaker 5: to restore that great Canadian promise so that anyone from
Speaker 5: anywhere can achieve anything.
Speaker 3: The hard work pays off.
Speaker 5: And whether you come from a farm in the Prairies
Speaker 5: or an assembly line in the manufacturing belt of Ontario
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Speaker 5: were a fisherman from out east, if you work hard,
Speaker 5: you can have a great life, build a beautiful future
Speaker 5: for your family. That's what conservatives are working to build
Speaker 5: and that's what we'll be fighting for. We get back
Speaker 5: on the floor of the House of Commons in September.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Thank you not to take quentage homerful.
Speaker 8: Hi be a Halloween check with CEQM news Hi there Hi,
Speaker 8: Our premier has been calling to live the electric vehicle
Speaker 8: levies since before the election. If that's something that doesn't
Speaker 8: go through, and what is your stance on it, and
Speaker 8: would you want to call for anything else if that
Speaker 8: doesn't happen, like say revoking or reducing access to Earth
Speaker 8: mineral minds or loans to the Chinese emmilent.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: The electric vehicle mandate is that that the Liberals are
Speaker 5: imposing on Canadians as a complete and utter disaster. It
Speaker 5: would cripple Saskatchewan and most of the per Prairie Province's
Speaker 5: rural communities, and much of Canada would simply cease to
Speaker 5: exist over the next ten years without the ability to
Speaker 5: use gas and diesel powered vehicles. And it is not
Speaker 5: an exaggeration to say that Liberals are effectively banning rural
Speaker 5: life when they ban gas and diesel powered trucks. That
Speaker 5: is why today we have announced that Conservatives are launching
Speaker 5: a nationwide campaign, including in the House of Commons to
Speaker 5: force the Liberals to back down on the carn A
Speaker 5: tax and the gas vehicle ban, to allow people to
Speaker 5: have the freedom to choose the vehicle that is most
Speaker 5: affordable and most effective.
Speaker 3: For their lives, and to put Canadians back in the
Speaker 3: driver's seat. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 9: Next question.
Speaker 8: Of Aidan Jagger Sasagen start makes do you support encouraging
Speaker 8: solar panel production?
Speaker 3: Can that?
Speaker 10: Given our mineral resources in the goalal shift to renew
Speaker 10: energy to help you.
Speaker 3: Can't grow can as g be so. I support the
Speaker 3: free market.
Speaker 5: I believe that we should buy the energy that is
Speaker 5: most affordable for Canadian families. I don't believe that we
Speaker 5: should bring massive government subsidies or force Canadian consumers to
Speaker 5: pay higher electrical and power bills to subsidize solar panels
Speaker 5: or any other particular type of energy production. We need
Speaker 5: to harvest our resources in this country. We have cheap,
Speaker 5: affordable natural gas. We have hydroelectricity here in Saskatchewan. We
Speaker 5: have the biggest supply of uranium anywhere on Earth, something
Speaker 5: Corey Tuck or our nuclear energy critic, can tell you
Speaker 5: tell anyone about. And those sources of energy are Canadian
Speaker 5: made they are affordable. My purpose when it comes to energy,
Speaker 5: we need low cost energy. The best way to defeat
Speaker 5: poverty and expand the quality of living of our people
Speaker 5: is to have affordable, reliable energy using the massive abundance.
Speaker 3: Of resources we have beneath our feet.
Speaker 5: But unfortunately, Mark Carty is keeping in place Trudeau's anti
Speaker 5: development laws C sixty nine, which makes it nineteen years
Speaker 5: to get a mine approved. So how are we ever
Speaker 5: going to get the critical minerals and the uranium to
Speaker 5: the surface in order to power nukes. How are we
Speaker 5: going to get hydroelectric dams built when they have to
Speaker 5: go through ten or eleven years of reviews by the
Speaker 5: federal government. How are we going to get natural gas
Speaker 5: production booming to supply generators for electricity and heat for
Speaker 5: our homes when Carnie's anti development laws keep everything in
Speaker 5: the ground. The reality is Mark Carty is not different
Speaker 5: than Justin Trudeau.
Speaker 3: He is worse.
Speaker 5: We conservatives are calling for as a sovereignty act which
Speaker 5: will allow us to become energy independent. Let's repeal Let's
Speaker 5: legalize pipelines and rapid development by repealing C sixty nine.
Speaker 5: Let's legalize shipping of oil off the north VBC coast
Speaker 5: by repealing C forty eight.
Speaker 3: Let's get rid of the energy cap to produce.
Speaker 5: More Canadian petroleum in Western Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Speaker 5: Let's get rid of the industrial carbon tax to produce
Speaker 5: more at a lower cost. And of course, let's get
Speaker 5: rid of the Carni tax and let people drive any
Speaker 5: car or truck that they choose. That's what we're saying,
Speaker 5: cheap energy, a powerful economy, a sovereign Canada.
Speaker 11: Thank you. Next question, Oh, hi, Jeremy Warren from CBC Saskatchewan.
Speaker 10: Here my questions about canola tariffs.
Speaker 11: Yeah, should Canada reduce or repeal list tariffs on Chinese
Speaker 11: electric vehicles if it would help reduce Chinese tears on canola?
Speaker 11: And what kind of support should the federal government be
Speaker 11: providing conola producers.
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, let's recognize that China's tariffs on
Speaker 5: our canola producers are totally unjustified. They had already targeted
Speaker 5: our both beef producers before there were any electric vehicle
Speaker 5: tariffs imposed on them, So the Chinese government has mistreated
Speaker 5: our economy for many years. I believe the first thing
Speaker 5: we should do is cancel the billion dollar federal loan
Speaker 5: that Mark Karney is extending to BC Ferries to have
Speaker 5: them buy Chinese ships were given.
Speaker 3: Mark Karney is giving a billion dollars.
Speaker 5: Of shipbuilding contracts through a taxpayer funded loan to the
Speaker 5: Chinese government and the Chinese economy. That is crazy at
Speaker 5: a time when they're targeting our farmers. I think we
Speaker 5: should look at ways we can penalize the regime in
Speaker 5: Beijing for targeting our farmers. And so far Mark Carty
Speaker 5: has said nothing about the canola producers, like he doesn't
Speaker 5: care about Western Canadian producers. Well, I had my team
Speaker 5: check his Twitter account. He hasn't tweeted a single thing
Speaker 5: about canola yet He's been able to tweet about International
Speaker 5: Cat Day though, Isn't that nice?
Speaker 3: You know, we need a prime.
Speaker 5: Minister who will actually stand up for all Canadians, including
Speaker 5: and especially our prairie producers.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 12: Well, thank you very much everyone for joining us here
Speaker 12: this morning. Just by a way of starting, I will
Speaker 12: offer a few comments, and I would say I am
Speaker 12: extremely disappointed with respect to the decision that the country
Speaker 12: of China has made in further increasing their temporary tariffs
Speaker 12: on our canola seeds, which will add to the existing
Speaker 12: tariffs on canola oil and meal. This is a response
Speaker 12: to the government's tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles largely, and
Speaker 12: in China's decision to impose preliminary anti dumping duties or
Speaker 12: what we will call temporary tariffs is set at seventy
Speaker 12: five point eight percent. That's on Canadian canola seed as
Speaker 12: of August the fourteenth, this Thursday. That will have a
Speaker 12: devastating impact on the price points for Saskatchewan's canola industry
Speaker 12: and I would say ultimately Saskatchewan's egg producers. So let
Speaker 12: me be clear that this hit will stop a significant
Speaker 12: amount of trade that is flowing into China today. This
Speaker 12: comes on top of the decision that China made in
Speaker 12: March this year to impose one hundred percent tariffs on
Speaker 12: Canadian canola oil, canola meal, as well as p imports,
Speaker 12: and added to that some pork and seafood exports as well.
Speaker 12: Beijing is also announced an an anti dumping probe for
Speaker 12: Canadian imports of pea starts, of which they will be
Speaker 12: working on in the weeks and months into the future.
Speaker 12: That is another potential impact for Western Canadian egg producers
Speaker 12: that we just simply can't withstand at this moment this announcement,
Speaker 12: and I would say that the timing of this announcement
Speaker 12: is in particularly hard on our egg producers in this
Speaker 12: province and across Canada as air hard at work starting
Speaker 12: to starting their harvest procedures and getting their harvest underweight.
Speaker 12: We've estimated about twelve million acres of canola is seated
Speaker 12: in Saskatchewan just this year, and the Canadian canole industry
Speaker 12: is about forty three to forty five billion dollars each
Speaker 12: and every year. That is responsible that industry for over
Speaker 12: two hundred thousand jobs Canadian jobs. And with China accounting
Speaker 12: for about a third of our exports, the United States
Speaker 12: of America would be about forty percent of said exports,
Speaker 12: the total about.
Speaker 10: Five billion dollars.
Speaker 12: China's exports total about five billion dollars annually, much of
Speaker 12: that coming from our province of Saskatchewan. To put this
Speaker 12: in context, is forty three to forty five billion dollar
Speaker 12: conole industry. The Canadian canole industry that we have employing
Speaker 12: just over two hundred thousand people. That is significantly larger
Speaker 12: than the steel industry, the aluminum industry, and the car
Speaker 12: manufacturing industry combined, it's about the same size as the
Speaker 12: Canadian forestry industry, of which we saw significant support for
Speaker 12: just this past week. Each of those industries, the steel,
Speaker 12: the aluminum, and the ev industry have also been hit
Speaker 12: hard by US teriffs, as has our forestry industry been
Speaker 12: hit hard by US terrors. But Canola producers hit with
Speaker 12: these Chinese terraffs, I would say that they deserve the
Speaker 12: same attention by our federal government, our Prime Minister as
Speaker 12: we are seeing in other industries, and we are asking
Speaker 12: that to be dealt with immediately. And I've reached out
Speaker 12: to the Prime Minister this morning and I expect I'll
Speaker 12: be speaking with him at some point later today, as
Speaker 12: has our agriculture minister reached out to his counterpart, and
Speaker 12: our trade minister talking to his counterpart. We've been asking
Speaker 12: our federal government and Prime Minister Carney to engage at
Speaker 12: the highest level since the federal election, and for over
Speaker 12: a year now, we've been asking about a year we've
Speaker 12: been asking the federal government to engage with China and
Speaker 12: start the advancement of those conversations to find our way
Speaker 12: to a solid and secure trade environment work moving forward.
Speaker 12: The Prime Minister in fairness start those conversations meeting with
Speaker 12: the Prime Minister of China, and I would say most
Speaker 12: certainly now that the next step is for the private
Speaker 12: Prime Minister to meet with the President of China, and
Speaker 12: I will be expressing the urgency and the need for
Speaker 12: that meeting to happen when we talk at the next opportunity.
Speaker 12: We need immediate action on this file. This is a
Speaker 12: significant Canadian industry, as I say, about comparable in size
Speaker 12: to the Canadian forest industry and much larger than the steel,
Speaker 12: aluminum and ev industry combined. We are engaging with every
Speaker 12: opportunity that we have. We are engaging at all levels,
Speaker 12: with ministers, engaging with their counterparts, not only in the
Speaker 12: federal government but in provinces across across Canada. We have
Speaker 12: meetings planned with Chinese representatives for later this week, and
Speaker 12: we've been actively engaged on this issue since before even
Speaker 12: these tariffs were announced, and even prior to the tariffs
Speaker 12: on Connol oil and meal which were announced this spring.
Speaker 12: I would say this, we are faced not only in Saskatchewan,
Speaker 12: but in Canada and many countries around the world in
Speaker 12: an ever changing geopolitical environment. Our trade relationships around the
Speaker 12: world are very very fluid, and they're changing rapidly, changing
Speaker 12: by the day in some cases.
Speaker 10: And so collectively, I would.
Speaker 12: Say that we as Canadians, we need to very much
Speaker 12: focus on taking care of Canadians at every level of government.
Speaker 12: We as Canadians also, and I would say that our
Speaker 12: federal government cannot sacrifice a forty three billion dollar cannoli industry,
Speaker 12: two hundred thousand jobs in that industry that is largely
Speaker 12: based in Farness and Western Canada, to protect the fledgingly
Speaker 12: electric fledging electric vehicle industry largely based in Eastern Canada.
Speaker 12: So I would I would close there, and I would
Speaker 12: offer an opportunity for any.
Speaker 3: Questions you mentioned.
Speaker 5: Previously.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I've met with the ambassador a couple of times,
Speaker 12: a number of meetings happening between ministers and consul generals
Speaker 12: as well also reaching out. I've spoken with I've reached
Speaker 12: out to the Prime Minister, our ministers have reached out
Speaker 12: to their counterpart. I've spoken to a couple other premiers
Speaker 12: as well this morning, as well as some industry representatives,
Speaker 12: some exporters as well. And I think you know, as
Speaker 12: I said, I'll be speaking to the Prime Minister, I
Speaker 12: expect in the next number of hours or day for sure,
Speaker 12: and I think we need to bring the industry together,
Speaker 12: production exporters as well as the levels of government so
Speaker 12: that we can collaborate on what our next steps are,
Speaker 12: whether it be a trade deal with the United States
Speaker 12: of America or whether it be a trade deal with China,
Speaker 12: and we need both in this industry. I think is
Speaker 12: very indicative of the fact that we need both moving forward.
Speaker 12: That is going to have to happen and be agreed
Speaker 12: upon between Prime Minister Carney and in the case of
Speaker 12: the United States President Trump when it comes to China,
Speaker 12: that agreement and our path forward is going to have
Speaker 12: to be agreed upon by Prime Minister Carney and President
Speaker 12: g and so we are going to support the advancement
Speaker 12: of that conversation to happen, hopefully sooner rather than later.
Speaker 12: I would say that it is it would be for
Speaker 12: China to say the one hundred percent tariff on Conol
Speaker 12: oil and meal previously was a response to the steel
Speaker 12: aluminum EV tariffs that we have. I would suspect that
Speaker 12: this is a similar response to the EV tariffs that
Speaker 12: we have, and I would say that we as Canadians
Speaker 12: and certainly as a federal government, need to have a
Speaker 12: very serious look at whether we're ready to sacrifice an
Speaker 12: industry that's larger than all three of those industries, employing
Speaker 12: over two hundred thousand Canadians at this point in time. However,
Speaker 12: as we move through the next number of days and weeks,
Speaker 12: there is an opportunity here for us to further expand
Speaker 12: not only our trade relationship with the United States of America,
Speaker 12: but also with countries like China. And if we want
Speaker 12: to in any way diversify at least future trade away
Speaker 12: from the United States of America, China is going to
Speaker 12: have to be one of those options. That's what Canada
Speaker 12: has been doing for over a decade now, and we
Speaker 12: intend to continue to do it into the future. And
Speaker 12: so we're reaching out, as I say, to our to
Speaker 12: the to the Prime Minister, our federal government to see
Speaker 12: what we can do to advance that ever important agreement
Speaker 12: and meeting that will happen that have to happen between
Speaker 12: our Prime Minister and the President of China. Yeah, that's
Speaker 12: been on under consideration for some period of time now,
Speaker 12: but it has to be coordinated and it has to
Speaker 12: be well planned out, and that's what our contacts in
Speaker 12: our Chinese Trade Office, for example, of which we've been
Speaker 12: criticized for even having by the opposition at every opportunity
Speaker 12: wherever our trade offices are located. But that has been
Speaker 12: an ongoing discussion that we've been having. But it needs
Speaker 12: to be coordinated with the federal government. As I said,
Speaker 12: it isn't going to be the Province of Saskatchewan that
Speaker 12: try signs a trade agreement with Presidency.
Speaker 10: It's going to be the Prime minister account and so we.
Speaker 12: Need to put and make every effort to use the
Speaker 12: tools and the assets and the intel and the contacts
Speaker 12: that we have as a province to put our Prime
Speaker 12: minister in a position where that conversation can happen and
Speaker 12: so where these tariffs can be lifted.
Speaker 11: Very form of assistance or.
Speaker 12: Financial Yeah, second question that will be asked of the
Speaker 12: Prime Minister in the federal government, as we saw significant
Speaker 12: assistance coming in the way of the forestry industry just
Speaker 12: this past week. This industry is similar in size, and
Speaker 12: I would say at least similar in the jobs that
Speaker 12: are provided, and so that would be the second question
Speaker 12: that we will have. First question is how do we
Speaker 12: put our federal government in a position where we can
Speaker 12: have that conversation with the country of China and the
Speaker 12: President of China to have these tariffs lifted.
Speaker 10: Thus that support wouldn't be needed.
Speaker 12: And if that can't happen in the near term, we
Speaker 12: are going to be asking for support similar in scope
Speaker 12: to what we've seen in the forestry industry most recently.
Speaker 3: Sorry, oh, I need to be joined.
Speaker 13: By our friend Rika Richardson, who as you know, is
Speaker 13: the humanitarian coordinator for Haiti. I think this will be
Speaker 13: your last briefing here on Haiti as you are heading
Speaker 13: off to Libya soon and we'll hope to welcome you
Speaker 13: back in that new role. But in the meantime we'll
Speaker 13: give you the floor and then we'll take some questions.
Speaker 8: Thank you very much.
Speaker 14: I hope you can hear me. So it's a pleasure
Speaker 14: to be here again, and yes it's not the first time.
Speaker 14: And I'm really grateful also to see that Haiti is
Speaker 14: still attracting interest and this is absolutely very neat and
Speaker 14: I think this is my key message today. This will
Speaker 14: be my last briefing on Haiti. Move on first of
Speaker 14: September to Libya and for me I've spent a bit
Speaker 14: more than three years so in physically in poor France,
Speaker 14: in around the country, and of course I have a
Speaker 14: lot of different impressions, and I have a divided as
Speaker 14: well heart being, having left Haiti just a few days ago.
Speaker 14: I think for me, the key, let's say, impression that
Speaker 14: I have is that the situation on the ground is
Speaker 14: enormously acute, and I often feel that I can't even
Speaker 14: find words any longer to describe the situation. Is it alarming,
Speaker 14: is it acute, is it urgent? It's all of that
Speaker 14: and even more. And I think that we state a
Speaker 14: lot of figures. We say that we have one point
Speaker 14: three million people displaced since since the last currently as
Speaker 14: a result of the gang violence, as the gangs have
Speaker 14: sort of rummaged the city.
Speaker 4: We have.
Speaker 14: And half of them are children. We have three thousand
Speaker 14: people having been killed in gang related incidents since the
Speaker 14: beginning of the year. We have two million people living
Speaker 14: in IPC four meaning really emergency levels of food insecurity.
Speaker 14: But all of that is just figures in a way,
Speaker 14: and behind every figure there is a woman, a mother,
Speaker 14: a child, a father, a young person. And what really
Speaker 14: strikes me is the resistance that people in Haiti have
Speaker 14: to the situation. I've had a lot of courageous stories
Speaker 14: from women in particular. I remember one woman who had
Speaker 14: been brutally raped over several longer period of time and
Speaker 14: who told me that she had lost fate in life.
Speaker 14: And then with some assistance in terms of mental health,
Speaker 14: for example, mental health support, she got her faith back
Speaker 14: and sort of was still standing and still wanting to
Speaker 14: live and was actually seeking justice. That was very impressive
Speaker 14: for me to hear. But also stories of people abandoning
Speaker 14: themselves and being really breaking their heart in terms of
Speaker 14: having to leave people behind as gangs invade their neighborhoods.
Speaker 14: And these could be people in a wheelchair or an
Speaker 14: elderly relative that they simply have to leave behind they
Speaker 14: can't move with them. So the situation is really very
Speaker 14: strikingly horrific in the capitol, and I think obviously children
Speaker 14: are particularly affected. Particularly, we have a malnutrition that is striking.
Speaker 14: We have children being recruited by the armed gangs, and
Speaker 14: of course they fare really poorly, many of them. Also
Speaker 14: in terms of education, you can imagine years with unbroken
Speaker 14: school with broken school years we've had, we have generations
Speaker 14: that have not fulfilled on attire. Let's say a year
Speaker 14: of schooling, and of course many schools have had to close.
Speaker 14: Hospitals are only thirty six percent in the capital of
Speaker 14: the hospitals are fully functioning only let's say, I think
Speaker 14: now two out of three major hospitals are actually out
Speaker 14: of function. So the situation is really terrible. I think
Speaker 14: for me, the key message here stephan is and to
Speaker 14: all of you, is that the most frustrating thing is, well,
Speaker 14: there are a lot of non frustrating things, you know.
Speaker 14: I think the U and we we are on the ground.
Speaker 14: We've been there on the ground throughout these absolutely worst periods,
Speaker 14: and I think we've been able to even with scarce resources,
Speaker 14: very very let's say, complex access issues, humanitarian access issues,
Speaker 14: We've been able to help people and assystem be there
Speaker 14: for many of people who've been firing really badly in
Speaker 14: this situation in light of the violence. But I think
Speaker 14: there is a lot of frustration because we have a
Speaker 14: lot of the tools. The tools are there. We have
Speaker 14: a humanitarian response plan. It's only funded nine percent. It's
Speaker 14: the lowest level of funding for any response plan in
Speaker 14: the world, and it's nine hundred million. We are not
Speaker 14: talking about the biggest response plan either, so that is
Speaker 14: of course a big frustration. But also we have other
Speaker 14: We have a sanctions regime that was introduced in twenty
Speaker 14: twenty two. We have an arms embargo similarly introduced in
Speaker 14: twenty twenty two. We have the Multinational Security Support Mission
Speaker 14: that has been on the ground for a year but
Speaker 14: not given the tools or the size needed to actually
Speaker 14: perform its role, So that is actually very frustrating. We
Speaker 14: have tools, but the response for the international community is
Speaker 14: just not at par with the gravity on the ground,
Speaker 14: so it does not respond to the severity and the
Speaker 14: gravity of the situation. And this, as you can imagine,
Speaker 14: is really I think a great concern to all of us.
Speaker 14: But it's also an opportunity for the international community to
Speaker 14: really look at these tools, member states, what else can
Speaker 14: we do? Because Haiti doesn't Hate's destiny is not this
Speaker 14: type of situation. It doesn't need to be misery and despair.
Speaker 14: Haiti has a very very honorable and I think a
Speaker 14: history that is really brilliant and was an inspiration to
Speaker 14: many countries and many regions of the world. And I
Speaker 14: think that there is as much as Haiti has spiral
Speaker 14: down in a very negative spiral hate. It can quickly
Speaker 14: spiral up again. But the violence needs to end. This
Speaker 14: brutal violence hitting women, children, young people in particular needs
Speaker 14: to end.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Thank you, Edie, Thank you very much, Missus
Speaker 9: Richardson On behalf of the United Nations Correspondent's Association for
Speaker 9: doing this briefing. And I know we wish you all
Speaker 9: well going from one hotspot to another in Libya looking
Speaker 9: back three years when gang violence certainly was nowhere near
Speaker 9: what it is today, what could have been done differently?
Speaker 9: And I know you just ask what else can we
Speaker 9: do now? What would your recommendation be?
Speaker 14: Thank you very much, and also thank you for having
Speaker 14: accompanied Haiti very closely throughout at least as I remember,
Speaker 14: as I recall these three years, I think for me,
Speaker 14: the obviously we have to have. I think one is
Speaker 14: that these tools need to be given the proper support,
Speaker 14: an investment in order to carry out their full mandate. Simply,
Speaker 14: there has to be a way of stopping arms coming
Speaker 14: into Haiti, and of course.
Speaker 4: It has to do with.
Speaker 14: Trafficking, but there are ways of stopping arms coming into
Speaker 14: Haiti if you strangle that, Let's say that trafficking of arms,
Speaker 14: there will be a decrease of violence. Similarly, the sanctions
Speaker 14: very important. There is and has been very long standing
Speaker 14: relations between these armed gangs and political actors, economic actors,
Speaker 14: and those sanctions were put in place, that sanctioned regime
Speaker 14: was put in place to break those relationships, and the
Speaker 14: mass the MSS was supposed to be on the ground
Speaker 14: with more than twenty five hundred uniform personnel. So I
Speaker 14: think that we need to use these tools, but we
Speaker 14: need to also have the presence of mind and of
Speaker 14: strategic vision to be able to move in parallel on security,
Speaker 14: the political solution. The political solution and security obviously very much,
Speaker 14: very intimately linked, but they have to advance. And similarly,
Speaker 14: we need to advance on what is stability, on what
Speaker 14: is actually development, the responding to the development of deficiency,
Speaker 14: that a deficit that exists in Haiti, because otherwise we
Speaker 14: will have the rest of the country possibly risking of
Speaker 14: plunging into insecurity and instability.
Speaker 9: So why isn't this happening now? Is it money? Is
Speaker 9: it political will?
Speaker 4: Is it both?
Speaker 9: And why has it been impossible to break this link
Speaker 9: between the gangs and the political and business soletes?
Speaker 14: I think it's both of what you mentioned, uh, I
Speaker 14: think is both real political will at many different levels,
Speaker 14: as well as funding. We know that the world is
Speaker 14: facing challenges in terms of funding and HATI of course
Speaker 14: very much so.
Speaker 1: I think the.
Speaker 14: The the gangs s some of the sanctions have had
Speaker 14: some impact, which is why I say that it is
Speaker 14: a tool that needs to be invested in. So the
Speaker 14: gangs have become more autonomous, meaning in the sense that
Speaker 14: they depend less on the traditional economic and political actors,
Speaker 14: all of that still exist and have more now plunged
Speaker 14: into a regional organized crime. Of course, trafficking of drugs
Speaker 14: is financing some of these operations. Again, trafficking of arms,
Speaker 14: trafficking of people. So organized crime and that international money
Speaker 14: laundering let's say that also exist is really something that
Speaker 14: is now empowering the gangs to be more autonomous.
Speaker 13: James Ferguson, who is the UN Women's Special Representative in Afghanistan, she.
Speaker 10: Will be speaking to you.
Speaker 13: From Kabu and this is of course he's here to
Speaker 13: discuss the four year mark since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
Speaker 13: The Secretary General sixteenth Annual Report on Conflict Related Sexual
Speaker 13: Violence that I think you've been asking me about has
Speaker 13: now been published today on the web page of the
Speaker 13: Office of the Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict.
Speaker 13: The report marks a staggering twenty five percent increase from
Speaker 13: the previous year, with the highest number of cases recorded
Speaker 13: in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti,
Speaker 13: Somali and South Sudan.
Speaker 10: You also.
Speaker 13: I encourage you to read the full report to get
Speaker 13: all the details, but to quickly summarize what has been included.
Speaker 13: Sixty three state and non state parties are listed in
Speaker 13: the annex of the report credibly suspected of committing or
Speaker 13: being responsible for patterns of rape and other forms of
Speaker 13: sexual violence in our conflict, which is on the agenda
Speaker 13: of the Security Council. The report also introduces for the
Speaker 13: first time an appendix whereby parties are put on notice
Speaker 13: for potential listing in the next Report of the Secretary General.
Speaker 13: Turning to starting off with Ukraine today, our colleagues in
Speaker 13: the Office the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs tell us that
Speaker 13: as front lines shift, intense hostilities or continuing to inflict
Speaker 13: a heavy toll on civilians on a daily basis, causing
Speaker 13: widespread destruction and forcing thousands of people to flee their
Speaker 13: homes in the Doughnetes region, where fighting is escalated, Ukrainian
Speaker 13: authorities ordered the mandatory evacuations of families with children from
Speaker 13: over a dozen towns and villages between Monday and Wednesday.
Speaker 10: This week, authorities report that more than.
Speaker 13: Six thousand people fled high risk communities along the front lines,
Speaker 13: either through organized evacuation or on their own accord. Relentless
Speaker 13: attacks are also so are impeding both evacuation of civilians
Speaker 13: and the delivery of aid. To Pokorovosk town, located just
Speaker 13: a few kilometers from the front lines. Local Ukrainian authorities
Speaker 13: estimate them more than one thousand people still living there.
Speaker 13: Humanitarian access is worsening in the Konstayka town, where prossably
Speaker 13: seven thousand residents need urgent support. Aid organizations are working
Speaker 13: around the clock to assist those fleeing the violence, providing
Speaker 13: transportation and other assistance at transit sites for newly displaced people.
Speaker 13: The Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, Matiashmali, is visiting the south
Speaker 13: of the country.
Speaker 10: Today.
Speaker 13: He met with displaced people in the community centers in
Speaker 13: Mikolaiv and discussed urgent needs with our partners and local authorities.
Speaker 13: On its latest update, our colleagues from the UN Human
Speaker 13: Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine say the number of civilian
Speaker 13: casualties in Ukraine reached another three year high in July,
Speaker 13: with two hundred and eighty six civilian killed and one thousand,
Speaker 13: three hundred and eighty eight injured. The July UN casualty
Speaker 13: numbers are the highest since May of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 13: The UN Human Rights Mission says that the high July
Speaker 13: casualty numbers continue a pattern of steadily increasing civilian casualties
Speaker 13: in twenty twenty five. Casualty numbers so the first seven
Speaker 13: months of twenty twenty five were forty eight percent higher
Speaker 13: than the same.
Speaker 10: Period in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 13: Turning to the ongoing horrific situation in Gaza, or humanitarian
Speaker 13: colleagues report that airstrikes and shelling have intensified in parts
Speaker 13: of Gaza City over the past couple of days, as
Speaker 13: at tax also continue on Daryl bala Han Yunis strikes
Speaker 13: are hitting residential buildings in tense housing displaced people, resulting
Speaker 13: in a high number of casualties and as a reminder,
Speaker 13: if the Israeli ground operation in Gaza City moves ahead,
Speaker 13: thousands of family already in appalling humanitarian conditions could be
Speaker 13: pushed over the edge even further. With eighty six percent
Speaker 13: of the strip now in Israeli militarized zones or under
Speaker 13: displacement order, EGG groups lack the access and supplies to
Speaker 13: address the dire humanitarian situation at the scale that is required.
Speaker 13: Any further loss of space, more mass displacement orders or
Speaker 13: intensified attacks in populated areas could have devastating consequences. As
Speaker 13: a reminder of the Israeli banned on the entry of
Speaker 13: shelter material has also been in effect for over five
Speaker 13: months now. In recent days, temperatures of sword and hundreds
Speaker 13: of thousands of people are now left without protection from
Speaker 13: the heat. Nearly everyone in Gaza has been displaced at
Speaker 13: least once since the war began, and the makeshift shelters
Speaker 13: they managed to improvise or acquire have offered either worn
Speaker 13: out or have been abandoned when they have been forced
Speaker 13: to flee. Meanwhile, yesterday, the World Health Organization supported the
Speaker 13: medical events equation of thirty eight patients, mostly children from Gaza,
Speaker 13: alongside nearly one hundred companions we reiterate our call for
Speaker 13: a ceasefire, the unconditional and immediate release of all hostages
Speaker 13: still being held in Gaza, and the unimpeded humanitarian access
Speaker 13: for US and all our partners. Turning to Syria, we
Speaker 13: and our humanitarian partners continue to deliver vital assistance to
Speaker 13: people impacted by the recent violence in the southern part
Speaker 13: of that country in the governorates of Sueda, Dara and
Speaker 13: Rural Damascus. UN agencies and their partners are supporting both
Speaker 13: people who fled and have been displaced and the communities
Speaker 13: that are hosting those people. Between August fifth and yesterday,
Speaker 13: we supported for eight convoys through the Syrian Arabread Crescent,
Speaker 13: which yesterday delivered critical assistance to Sweden, including food, hygien kits,
Speaker 13: medical supplies, and fuel to access to.
Speaker 10: Restore water pumps.
Speaker 13: One of the convoys count twenty one trucks that delivered
Speaker 13: two hundred and fifty metric tons of flowers, as well
Speaker 13: as food baskets, water containers, fuel, and seven dialysis machines.
Speaker 13: The World Food Program in UNISEF provided these supplies bo
Speaker 13: but of course more support is originally needed. More than
Speaker 13: one hundred and ninety thousand people were displaced by the
Speaker 13: recent violence, which has also disrupted basic services and commercial supplies.
Speaker 13: Over the past week, nine hundred and twenty families have
Speaker 13: left Sweda Governorate, with some three hundred and seventy families returned,
Speaker 13: according to the Civil Syrian Civil Defense Organization. Our humanitarian
Speaker 13: colleagues also warned that the ongoing insecurity and sporadic violence
Speaker 13: continue to impede better humanitarian access to swayed Up. Just
Speaker 13: last week, a Syrian ab red cressing convoc came under
Speaker 13: fire and dark governorate. Despite ongoing insecurity and operational challenges,
Speaker 13: we continue to engage closely with Syrian authorities and other
Speaker 13: partners to strengthen the response.
Speaker 10: And moving to.
Speaker 13: Lebanon and Southern Lebanon where our peacekeeping colleagues are operating.
Speaker 10: I have my note right here.
Speaker 13: Our peacekeepers tell us that they continue to discover unauthorized weapons,
Speaker 13: unauthorized ammunition and infrastructure in Southern Lebanon. Yesterday they found
Speaker 13: rocket launctures, rocket shells, mortar rounds and bomb fuses in
Speaker 13: Sector East. On Tuesday, the peacekeepers observed their tunnel Insector
Speaker 13: West with rocket launchers and mortar shells inside. These were
Speaker 13: referred to to the Lebanese Armed Forces as per standard practice.
Speaker 13: In addition, UNIFIL observed continued Israeli Defense Forces military activities
Speaker 13: in the area of operations, including airstrikes in Sector West
Speaker 13: and artillery shelling from the south of the Blue Line
Speaker 13: with points of impact in Sector East that took place yesterday.
Speaker 13: UNIFIL continues to conduct training activities with the Lebanese Army
Speaker 13: personnel in support of our efforts of capacity building of
Speaker 13: the LAF. This week, UNIFIL engineers conducted trainings on surveying,
Speaker 13: locating and extracting explosive devices, procedures for safety, exiting, exiting
Speaker 13: mind areas and securing sites potentially containing explosive devices. Such
Speaker 13: training activities are crucial now as the Lebanese Armed Forces
Speaker 13: engaged daily in identifying and securing areas contaminated with unexploded
Speaker 13: ordinances and explosive remnants of war at Seed.
Speaker 10: The Missions Maritime Task Force.
Speaker 13: Yesterday held an exercise with the Lebanese Army personnel Air
Speaker 13: Force excuse me Lebanese are Air Force personnel in Sudan.
Speaker 13: Our humanitarian colleagues are continuing to provide us with updates
Speaker 13: on the dire conditions there. We're extremely alarmed by the
Speaker 13: rap continued rapid spread of cholera in different parts of
Speaker 13: the country, especially in the Darfur region. In the past
Speaker 13: week alone, our health partners recorded forty cholera related deaths
Speaker 13: in the region. Treatment to more than two three hundred
Speaker 13: patients have been provided by our partners of facilities run
Speaker 13: by the Ministry of Health, but in Tahuila, the cholera
Speaker 13: treatment centers have been overwhelmed. As you well know, in Tawila,
Speaker 13: hundreds of thousands of people are hosted after fleeing hostilities
Speaker 13: in and around El Fasher and Darfor State. You may
Speaker 13: also recall that last month, the Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom
Speaker 13: Fletcher allocated five million dollars from the Central Emergency Response
Speaker 13: Fund to support the cholera response in Sudan, but more
Speaker 13: resources are needed for that response. Without delay, humanitarian partners
Speaker 13: need fifty million United States dollars to sustain their cholera
Speaker 13: operations through.
Speaker 10: The end of twenty two twenty five.
Speaker 13: Meanwhile, active fighting, insecurity and bureaucratic impediments continue to block
Speaker 13: or delay our access to areas impacted by famine and
Speaker 13: other locations in acute need. Al Fashia and North Darfur
Speaker 13: remains besieged and cut off from humanitarian support. Humanitarian access
Speaker 13: is also constrained in the Cordifin region, where fighting persists
Speaker 13: along key supply routes.
Speaker 10: The closure of these roots.
Speaker 13: Is severely disrupted the delivery of vital goods and worse
Speaker 13: in economic conditions, triggering displacement and a worsening of the
Speaker 13: humanitarian situation. As nutrition needs deepened, the humanitarian community is
Speaker 13: responding wherever it can in East Darfd to identify it
Speaker 13: acute cases or refer children for treatment. Our partners, supported
Speaker 13: by UNICEF, screened thirty two thousand children under the age
Speaker 13: of five for malnutrition last month alone. A similar effort
Speaker 13: in June reached fifteen thousand children. We continue to reiterate
Speaker 13: that all parties engage in this conflict must adhere to
Speaker 13: their obligations under international law under international humanitarian law, including
Speaker 13: facilitating the unimpeded humanitarian access and protecting civilians from harm.
Speaker 13: And a quick update from ME and MAR where the
Speaker 13: situation there is not any better. The country continues to
Speaker 13: grapple with repeated shocks, including devastating conflict, flooding, and other
Speaker 13: disasters that have stripped millions of people in Myanmar of
Speaker 13: their homes, their shelter, their livelihoods, and sense of safety.
Speaker 13: Conflict between the ME and Maar armed forces and various
Speaker 13: non state armed groups continue to force civilians to flee
Speaker 13: their homes, exposing them to serious harm and protection risks.
Speaker 13: Since early July, heavy rains have also triggered widespread flooding
Speaker 13: and landslides, displacing families and damaging homes, rose and other
Speaker 13: critical infrastructure. We, along with our humanitarian partners, have reached
Speaker 13: nearly one point three million people in acted by the
Speaker 13: earthquake that took place on March twenty eighth of this year. However,
Speaker 13: underfunding continues to hamper our response. Funding cuts at forts
Speaker 13: reduction across all sectors of the humanitarian response in Myanmar,
Speaker 13: leaving vulnerable people, desperate and dangerous situations, and even more
Speaker 13: vulnerable mean Rihannmar remains one of the world's most underfunded
Speaker 13: humanitarian operations. We have one hundred and thirty six million
Speaker 13: dollars in the bank, but we need one point one
Speaker 13: billion dollars for this year's appeal.
Speaker 10: That's just so we've only gotten about twelve percent. We
Speaker 10: call on old donors to step up for their funding
Speaker 10: and lend.
Speaker 13: Unfortunately with a tragic note from the Eastern Mediterranean, and
Speaker 13: I can tell you that we join our colleagues at
Speaker 13: IOM and UNHCR and expressing our deep sadness by the
Speaker 13: capsizing of a boat that occurred yesterday off the coast
Speaker 13: of Lampi in the Central Mediterranean. Excuse me of Lampadusa
Speaker 13: in Italy, which in which at least thirty five people
Speaker 13: are feared dead or missing, including children. According to the
Speaker 13: information gathered by our colleagues from the sixty survivors that
Speaker 13: were brought to safety in Lampadusa, about ninety five people
Speaker 13: had departed from Zawella in Libya.
Speaker 10: On two boats.
Speaker 13: One of the boats began taking on water and all
Speaker 13: passengers were transferred to the other, which was a fiberglass boat,
Speaker 13: which later capsized due to overcrowding. Reported nationalities on boards
Speaker 13: where Egyptians, Somali, Sudanese and Pakistanis. Filippo Grandi, or High
Speaker 13: Commissioner for Refugees, pointed out that over seven hundred refugees
Speaker 13: and migrants have now died to date in the Central Mediterranean,
Speaker 13: and that is that's.
Speaker 10: Just the deaths that were recorded, no doubt there are
Speaker 10: many more.
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