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