Thank you for listening to Depictions Media Radio. Welcome to Policy and Rights show up gosh alcoa Policy Human Joys. Welcome back to Policy and Rates Here Depictions Media Radio. I'm your host, Michael Cloks. Okay, so let's talk about leadership. If you are a true leader, you don't need to boast about yourself, you don't need to put others down. You start to lead people by way of the examples of how you live and how you treat others. And at this point you're like, why are we talking about
leadership right now? Well, okay, Donald Trump, he may or may not be doing great things. According to how things eventually get written in the history books. He may be written down as the worst president that has ever existed, or he could be written down as one of the greatest presidents that ever existed with the slowest start ever. We don't know. It's like, there could be more future down the road for Donald Trump, that it turns things around and that makes him a great leader, and that
he opens the world up to greatness. We don't know that yet, giving him the benefit of the doubt. Okay, but here's my problem with him as a leader. The reason why he is so far not a great leader is because he has to brag about everything that he does and tell and keep reminding us of the great things that he has done, which, by the way, don't
pan out. He says that he has brought peace between Pakistan and India, but there is still the huge issue of Kashmir that those two countries are still struggling over who owns that territory and the other territories that are between the two of them that they're still fighting over own ownership and who has their sovereignty of those territories. Okay,
there is the issue of versus Palestine. A great leader would be trying to quell the violence and bring about peace so that hostages can be freely returned.
And so that.
People who originally the indigenous people of the land can live there peacefully in cohabitation with the new people who are coming. Well, he hasn't even done that in the United States. He's just he's tossing indigenous people, wrapping them up and hauling them to Alligator Alcatraz. So he hasn't done that in the United States. So why do we expect to see that happen? When he's talking to net Yahoo about Palestine. Okay, but he says that he has a great pre peace deal for both of them. That
isn't panning out the Epstein files. Well, he calls them basic happy bs. Well, if that is true, just simply allow the files to be released and allow those who are involved to face the justice system head on so that we as the public can move past this issue. But he's dangling out there, keeping it in the news because it distracts us from looking at the fact that he may not be such a great leader, that he
may actually have committed a pedophilia. Because one of the reasons why he doesn't want it out there is because his name is supposed to be on the list. Well, if his name wasn't, unless he would release it. Okay, moving on to one of the biggest things that points to his question of his why I questioned him as a leader. He is on a full on attack against Obama, Yillery Clinton and other Democrats. He wants them brought on charges for the what he calls the Russian hoax. Well,
this isn't the first attack. This is one of many attacks. When he first took office, he had to say he had to fix everything that crooked Biden had done that. He had to tear apart what crookeet Biden had done so that the people of America have a country. He had to take apart diversity, equality and inclusion because that was hurting the real people of America. If a real leader wanted to change something, he changed it and take
credit for the change. Maybe not so overtly, but he would just simply take take credit for that change.
Not.
Tear down or in public tear down what another person had done. You just simply change it quietly and move on. But he always has to point out how Barack Obama did this, Crooked Biden did that, Hillary Clinton did this, and her crim relax. He has to put those out before he talks about what it is that he is doing. Not a hallmark of a greed leader. A greatly does and lives is greatness. He does it with humility, and he acts humbly and serves the people that he claims
to represent. Being a leader is a point of service, not a point of control. Autocrats and tyrants are not leaders, They are controls. A leader is somebody who mentors others so that they find the greatness that is within them. Also prime example throughout history. One throughout the twentieth century, we got to look at Winston Churchill because he didn't just rule with an iron fist. He led people to He led his country through one of the worst and
most horrible times of Europe. One of my favorites throughout history is General George S.
Patton.
He won battles not because he pointed in the direction of where to fight, but he was at the forefront in his take, leading people into the fight. He stayed closer to the front lines, as close to the front lines as we would like a general to be. There are other examples throughout, especially American history, when we look at people like Harriet Tugman. She led people to their freedom at great risk to herself. She didn't go around ballusterring, oh I'm doing such great things for people. She just
did them. Barack Obama just did for people. Joe Biden just did for people. They took their service to the United States and the United States Constitution very seriously and they led to people on.
Oh well, while we're at it, since I sit in currently in Canada, well let's look at jess turn Trudeau.
Versus Mark Karney. Mark Karney, since he has taken office, he has said what he is going to do for people. He has told us how he is going to serve people. He has told us how he's going to try to make life better for the Indigenous people, make life better for Canada in general. He told us how he is going to send people to go broken new deals in commerce for the Canadian people, all Canadian people, not just a select group of Canadian people, All Canadian people, including
those who are Indigenous. He went to northern territories and along the Arctic and talk to the Inuit people and their leadership about him what it is did you need and hopefully is incorporating those into the government's policy in Ottawa so that great things can actually happen for the country called Canada or the Indigenous term for Turtle Island.
So we're actually gonna hear here as he visited Colonna, BC and how Mark Carnie wants to help us off with lumber industry, but he isn't promoting what he is doing by saying that the Conservative government, the Conservative Party would want to tear it up, as just from Trudeau used to say, they want to tear it up and put something else in his place. He's just presenting what he believes to be the best work possible for the people.
That's what great leadership is about, presenting what you believe to be your best work possible.
Home.
In the words of John Horgan, he's his mother used to tell him to always do his level best and he would use that term all the time, saying he was doing his level best to do what was great for the people of BC. That's what leadership is about. Made John Horgan rest in peace. As David Ebe surfaces
and we're going to hear from him today. Is he talks about Alan g products and how they're selling that this liquid natural gas to Asian countries to an Asian market, to open Canada to new markets in a new continents. Something right. It's like instead of trying to force speed a old market things that it wants to care. So why don't we get started. And we're going to hear
from Marcarniy David Ebe. We're also going to hear from Anita Anon as they're trying to broker a deal with Mexico to build a trade card or that would bypass the United States. There's a new concept, so why don't we get started.
Hello everybody, thank you, thank you for coming today. I think it's important that we start by a land of acknowledgment. So I'd like to acknowledge we're on the traditional and unseated territory of the Silks Okanagan people. I have driven by this lumber mill I don't know one hundred two hundred times, going to Vancouver, going to Penticton.
I've never been inside. It is unbelievable.
In there, you see a blend of old school moving went around to technology that's maximizing every piece of the lumber.
That goes through there. It's pretty incredible.
This mill is an economic driver for this region and it provides hundreds of good paying jobs for the people of this community. Today, the Prime Minister will announce tangible supports for the softwood lumber industry for British Columbia and Canada that really help us get through the trade situation we're going on.
With the US.
I think as important as the tangible things of Prime ministerable announce is the people that showed up here to do the announcement. The Prime Minister, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources. We are paying attention to this because this really matters to us, the people who work here, and to Canada and Canadians. So with that to the heaving lifting, I want to bring to the podium the twenty fourth Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister Mark Karney.
Thank you, Steve, thank you, thank you, thank you very much, Steve. Good morning everyone. Thank you Minister Hodgson for joining us. And let me thank Nick and the team here at Gorman Brothers for showing us around this incredible facility, but more importantly giving us a window into the ecosystem that Gorman is part of, an ecosystem that spans this great province that reaches out to customers in Canada, the United States.
Around the world.
And provides tremendous value to those customers, and does so because it's built.
On values of this company.
So it couldn't be more thrilled to be here on this important day for this industry.
Now, before we begin.
And as the sun beats down on my bald head, I would I'm reminded of the challenges, in all seriousness, of the challenges that we're facing with the wildfires here in British Columbia and across Canada, and we've just seen recently fires down the road in the Okanagan, and I want to express our deep gratitude to the firefighters and the first responders who are on the front lines of combating these fires in the Okanagan, in British Columbia and
across our great country. And I also want to thank the Canadian Armed Forces because in support of those efforts, hundreds thousands of Canadian Armed Forces personnel across Canada have been involved, including to evacuate thousands of people in danger. And we will continue to work closely with communities and provinces. The territory is to protect lives and homes and businesses. Now Steve's driven by here a couple hundred times. I've
driven through here countless times. I can't count to two hundred like Steve, but countless time as a kid spending summer vacations in the Okanagan.
This was always the highlight. But a lot has changed since then.
There's a bit less fruit less farming, more grapes, more golf, a myriad of new businesses sprouting up from aerospace, artificial intelligence, and health sciences.
But there are also a few constants, the.
Good weather, the great people, and despite perils ranging from pine beetles to protectionism. The BC Interior remains home to a world leading softwood industry because of these people. Yeah and Gorman Brothers embodies the spirit of that industry and
really the very best of Canada. Resilient, ambitious, dynamic. What began over seventy five years ago with two brothers adapting from challenges in the orchards building fruit boxes, has involved into this thriving company with hundreds of highly skilled employees and a company, as I said, a moment ago that supports an ecosystem that spans this province and builds the world. Canada was literally built with our forests and by workers
such as those behind me. Indigenous peoples relied on our forests for their communities, for their transportation, for their artistic expression. Early settlers built our economy onlin lumber, literally built our economy on lumber, supplying the British Empire before shifting exports to a growing market in the United States. Each summer, thousands of university and college students helped pay their tuition by planning trees. The forest industry is a pillar of
the Canadian economy. It supports two hundred thousand jobs across the country contributes more than twenty billion.
Dollars directly to our GDP. It's the economic backbone.
Of nearly three hundred rural, Indigenous and northern communities, many of them right here in British Columbia. Well Geldui Loo Canada, Eludusian product, Montel de bodev Newfoni, sint Catrevans sank Polson de Sempoltacion american A represent en vierjent Uncau to Marche american Isu, Margre de de Sini de Menesquemache, Provenance de
lte cote de la frent. Over the course of the last four decades, the United States has alternated between confrontation and collaboration, frequently applying unfounded countervailing and anti dumping duties against Canadian softwood, and then signing formal agreements that benefited businesses, workers, and homeowners on both sides of the border. Speak clear, Canada does not dump lumber into the United States, and we will continue to make the case that these current
and proposed duties are unjustified. Canada is a vital supplier to our southern neighbor. We represent around a quarter of the US market and we help keep down costs of American homes while improving their quality. But we're in a situation now where the disputes around software lumber are part of a bigger picture. American trade pressures have intensified and broadened, and the US is in the process of fundamentally changing all of its trading relationships in a series of recent agreements.
America is in effect charging for access to its economy through a combination of higher baseline tariffs, unilateral trade liberalization by its partners, and new commitments to invest in the United States. We understand that overall, Canada is in a strong position. Despite our size, Canada is already the second largest.
Foreign investor in the United States.
Many of our companies are essential to the complex supply chains that drive American competitiveness, and the commitment of the United States to the core of COSMA, reaffirmed again last week, means that the average US terriff right on Canadian goods remains one of its lowest, and over eighty five percent of Canada US trade continues.
To be tra free in both directions.
To be clear, Canada remains committed to COSMO for the stability and the prosperity it provides on both sides of the border, and will continue to engage in constructive trade negotiations with the United States in the pursuit of the best deal for both sides, and I'll be speaking more about how we can.
Reinforce these commitments in short order.
But despite our advantages, certain of our major Canadian industries are being severely impacted by US trade. These strategic sectors include auto steel, aluminum, copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and of course,
softwood lumber. So while we'll continue to work with the United States on the many mutually beneficial opportunities that we share in trade and investment, it is clear that we cannot count or fully rely on what has been our most valued trading relationship for our prosperity, and that's why we're increasingly focused on building our strength at home and
finding new opportunities for Canadian companies and workers abroad. Our government's new comprehensive Industrial strategy will help our companies retool and reinvest, to protect Canadian jobs, to build Canadian competitiveness, and to meet growing demands in Canada while developing international opportunities wherever, free trade is a commitment, not a condition. Two weeks ago, I announced the first of the elements of that new strategy, with a series of measures to
support the transition in the Canadian steel industry. And of course, today here I'm going to focus on how we can help transform our softwood lumber industry to compete in this tough new environment. And it starts from recognizing the two thirds of Canadian lumber production and nearly ninety percent of Canadian lumber exports currently go to the United States, leaving US disproportionately.
Exposed to their trade actions.
This dependence creates costly uncertainty, It weakens our industry's ability to weather downturns, it makes lumber more expensive for builders here at home, and it foregoes enormous opportunities in fast growing markets around the world.
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Challenge into opportunity, with Minister Hodgson, Secretary of State fear, today I'm announcing a series of new measures to help the software lumber industry pivot to a growing Canadian market and to the markets of reliable trading partners around the world. Gene sol Jaldui and Sergie de Nouvelle Messieurs pol de Londesti du Bois dev assertelne ven Marche Canadian Plain, Croissants A de Nouveau, Patzenel Chemis, Chioux fiab.
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The first pillar is to give our companies that need liquidity that liquidity in order to address immediate pressures to do so, will provide up to seven hundred million dollars in loan guarantees. This will ensure that forestry companies of all sizes have the competitive financing they need to maintain and restructure, if necessary, their operations during a period of
profound transformation. Second, to make the software lumber industry more competitive for the long term, We will provide an additional five hundred million dollars, largely in grants and contributions, to supercharge new product development and new market diversification products such as reinforced timber and low carbon wood fiber based insulation materials that are used in prefabricated.
And modular housing.
These investments will increase domestic processing and value added, particularly as technology changes the way we build. This new funding will include initiatives to support indigenous led forestry business development and diversification, something that Gorman has stood behind for decades. Third, we will be our own best customer by relying more on Canadian lumber.
Canadian software for Canadian projects.
Canada's new government has a strong mandate to get big things built faster. That means millions of more homes, major new ports, new trade corridors, new energy projects, and as we build bigger and faster, we will build Canadian, prioritizing Canadian lumber, Canadian steel, Canadian aluminum in Canadian construction. Canada's new government is working to double the pace of new home building to almost five hundred thousand new units a
year over the course of the next decade. That alone, that alone could double the use of Canadian softwood lumber in new residential construction, an increase of almost two billion board feet, and double the demand for structural panners an increase of nearly one billion square feet. To help realize that potential, this fall, we will launch Build Canada Homes.
Build Canada Homes will start by getting the government back in the business of building deeply affordable homes and in the process catalyze a new housing industry using Canadian technology, Canadian lumber, and Canadian workers.
Core to Build.
Canada's Homes mandate will be to provide up to twenty five billion dollars in financing to innovative private sector home builders in Canada for the deeply affordable homes that we finance and build. Build Canada Homes will catalyze bulk orders of off site construction of prefabricated and modular homes, specifying the use of Canadian technologies and resources. This combination will
create enormous sustained demand for Canadian lumber products. And there's just one example of the possibilities just a few hours drive from here in Castleguar, Klsnikoff Mass Timber recently open their tenh sorry.
There are one hundred thousand square.
Foot mass timber prefabrication and modular facility, the first of its kind in North America. They're adding new products and services including prefabricated wall panels, mass timber modules and trusses designed and manufactured for construction efficiency. And of course, the impact of Build Canada Homes can be and is being reinforced by provincial initiatives, including the modernization of building code regulations by British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.
This creates significant additional.
Demand will going forward for Canadian softwood lumber as an example again here in BC the increase in the size of buildings that can be constructed using encapsulated mass timber from twelve to eighteen stories.
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I'm Chris Cooper, LNG Canada's President and c on behalf of everybody in LG Canada. I want to thank you all for making the trip here today. We're very pleased and honored to welcome you to our beautiful facility, especially with weather like this. I want to extend a special thanks to Premier eb and to Minister Dix and members of their staff for also taking the time to visit with us. I will also express our deep gratitude to the Heusland nation in whose traditional territory were gathered and
where LG Canada calls home. Also thanks to the Districtive Kittimap and to Mayor Phil Gamouth, who is also here with us today, for the enduring welcome, the support, the collaboration and the community have shown to LERG Canada and its workers in our time here. It's hard to believe that one month ago, on June the thirtieth, on Canada Day weekend, I stood here and LNG Canada reached a
very important milestone. We loaded our first cargo of maid him Beasts LNG onto a carrier bound for export markets overseas. We've since sent three more LNG cargoes on their way to markets abroad, and as you can see behind me, another carrier is now preparing to load our fifth cargo of LNG, with early operations underway. This is a special time for our company and our five joint venture partners, local communities, and for first Nations, and indeed for British
Columbia and for Canada. It represents the launch of a new industry in this province, one that's already provided thousands of jobs for individuals, myriad training and employment opportunities for young workers, economic and social benefits for people, and of course new revenues for governments. It took many years of dedication and hard work by thousands of people to reach this point. In many respects, our timing couldn't be better. The world is hungry for reliable supplies of high quality,
responsibly produced law carbon energy. Countries around the world want to decarbonize their economies, and they're looking to LNG and to Canada to help them. In that transition, BC's nascent LNG industry adds much needed diversity to Canada's export markets.
We're also demonstrating again at a time when it's really needed, the British Columbians and Canadians are capable of building really big things, and we're capable of doing even more with other LNG projects in BC on the way, such as our neighbors over the road Cedar LNG, the first Indigenous led heis led project, and possibly with LNG Canada's Face two expansion that we're currently in serious considerational So finally,
with this trajectory and in continued collaboration with our industry colleagues, Canadian workers, local communities, and of course First Nations and our provincial and federal governments, Canada has an exception strong opportunity to become a top five energy exploding nation and that will go a long way to help Canada achieve an even more ambitious but attainable goal to become a world energy Superpella i'd i'd like to handle proceedings to the Honorable David Ebie, Premier British Columbia.
Thank you, Premier Chris, thanks so much.
It's so good to be here on the Elergy Canada side, I want to thank Chris you and your team for making us welcome here.
We've been visiting with construction.
Workers who are working on Train two right now, with operations people who are running Train one helping to load this ship behind us, and the enthusiasm for this project, the skill and energy of the workers that made this possible is world class. We have the best construction teams, we have the best engineers, and we see as well these teams people that have experience from around the globe coming to British Columbia to share their talents here is
something that's always made our province great and strong. I am so excited about this project and what it means for Canada, what it means for British Columbia at a time when we are under direct attack for the President of the United States with clear intention to cause harm to our economy, an approach that makes no sense to those of us who are Canadian and American and understand our close ties with our friends south of the border. The message, though we receive, is clear, Canada's got to
stand on our own two feet. We've got to build for Canadians, and we've got to make sure that we're a country that can look after ourselves, and part of that means using our resources and getting the markets other than the United States. And there is no better example of a project at the scale that we need at the time that we need.
Than this project right here.
And the thing that I really like about the Lergy Canada project is not just that it gets us to diverse markets, is not just that it provides jobs and employment for British Columbians and for Canadians, but that we're doing it in a way that gets our resources to market, that is responsible and then answers some of the big challenges of our time. How do we balance and ensure that we're looking after the environment as well as creating employment.
How do we make sure we're addressing climate change and also use our resources to build prosperity so we can deliver the services that people need.
This project answers those questions.
The energy that comes from this site is sixty percent lower carbon than the average energy plant in the world. It is forty percent better in terms of carbon content than the best plants in the world, which means that when we're shipping to Japan, to Korea, to Malaysia to China. It means that these countries are able to meaningfully reduce their carbon pollution and their carbon.
Footprint, and that is very meaningful in these markets.
I was on a trade mission to Japan, to Korea, to Malaysia, and as part of that mission, I met with major proponents of this project, with Cogas, with Mitsubishi, with Petronas, and in those conversations, each one of those proponents underlined how important it was them that this project was able to be reliable, that this project was able to provide the energy that they needed and that they were on world markets to find, but that it was able to do it in a way that helped these
countries meet their own climate goals. By working together, by reaching out internationally, Canada can be part of the solution by bringing our resources to market. I also want to address an issue that a number of the workers here have raised with me. It could be contractors, it could be construction workers, it could be people working on the site. It's the question of Lergy Canada Phase two. We're really
excited about the potential of Lergy Canada Phase two. We're in active conversations with LERG Canada project proponents as well as with the federal government about Lergy Canada Phase two, and we're hopeful to be able to get the company to a final investment decision. We think there's no better value proposition for the project proponents than what we offer here.
It'll bring huge benefits for Canadians and for British Columbians in terms of employment and revenues to support things like healthcare and services the British Columbia.
And we think that we are able.
We know that we are able to compete with the rest of the world in terms of low carbon reliability and just overall quality of product. And so I'm very much looking forward to be able to come back here to make the announcement about Lergy Canada Phase two. And I want to thank all all of the workers who made it possible for us to even be having that conversation. I'm sure there were lots of long nights. I'm sure there were lots of long days. Many of you may
be away from home. I know there are a lot of local folks here, but a lot of people away from home to help build this thing. And your sacrifice and your efforts mean increased prosperity for all Canadians at a time when we really need it. So thanks everybody for your work. It's a great honor to be here. I want to thank Mayor Phil for welcoming us to Kiddimat. Mayor Phil reminds me again and again that Kidmat represents
the merger of two things. One is ensuring our resources get to market, jobs and the economy, but also the best the British Columbia has to offer in terms of wildlife nature.
I can't see but behind the cameras, I'm looking at the.
Aluminum smelter here in Kiinimat at the time the largest private sector investment in Canadian history. Now to be standing here the proud leader of a province, of a government that supported the workers in delivering the largest private sector investment in Canadian history again here in Kittamat.
I want to congratulate your Mayor Phil.
I want to congratulate all the workers and the company on this momentous occasion and everything that you've done and everything that we hope are we're going to be able to do together on Phase two.
Thanks everybody.
I mean, I can't imagine what I understand. There may be some questions I thought I covered everything quite comprehensively.
We have a couple of questions here today, Thanks Premier. We're going to start with media in person and we have media on the phone line. All reporters will have one question and one follow up. For media on the phone line, please please press Star one to enter the queue. We're going to start here on the ground with Helen Assante from CFTK Terrace. Go ahead, Helen.
Greetans do ever you want.
My question is at a premiere.
How does today's Energy Cannada Tour tie into your government's to a hundred million support for.
Cedar LNG.
Well.
One of the remarkable things about this project was the work that was done by the project proponents by Lergy Canada to ensure that the local community.
Benefited in different ways.
And one of the ways that the HIGHSLA identified that they wanted to participate was not through benefits agreement was not through just a stream of revenue. They actually wanted to participate as project proponents. They wanted their own LERG project that they could do in the way that was consistent with their values, and so that resulted in Lergy Canada working with them to deliver gas to the Cedar Lerg project. That is a project that is going to
employ one hundred people at that Lerg site. It's just down down the water here. The Highsla are doing in a very unique way. It's through a floating platform. So when the project is complete, the platform will be able to be dragged away for recycling and in the meantime it'll create literally billions of dollars of benefit for the
Heisler and for British Columbians. That project couldn't exist without the Lergy Canada project, and so they're very closely tied together, and it's one of the ways this project is benefiting the broader community.
A jous tour montai everybody. We are here in Mexico City and we're advocating on behalf of Canadians, the Canadian economy and the bilateral relationship between Mexico and Canada writ large. As I have said from the very beginning, my mandate as Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister is to ensure that we're leveraging our diplomatic and strategic relationships for the benefit of Canada.
And this goes beyond trade ties which are in and of themselves, but we also seek to deepen our international partnerships and certainly our bilateral relationship with Mexico when it comes to security, when it comes to strategic geopolitical relationships, and that's exactly what I am doing on this trip with my colleague Francois Philippe Champagne and in meetings with President Shinbaum this morning and with my counterpart, Secretary de la Fuente. We've met with other members of the cabinet.
We will be meeting with legislators and business leaders, and the bottom line is that we are building the momentum in the Mexico Canada relationship and we're making sure that this relationship will stand the test of time and that it is a comprehensive strategic relationship on the axis of the economy and geopolitical issues, including security. And with that I will hand it over to Franz Wafili.
Well, thank you very much, and sorry Fox for a bit late, I think responsibly for that. We're just finishing meeting with the Minister of Finance of Mexico. As Minister Annan said, this is a very successful trip. We both have been engaged in international relations for almost a decade now, and I would say it's quite extraordinary the depth and
level of discussions we are today. For me, this was all about brand broadening and strengthening the great partnership that we enjoy with Mexico, you know, Mexico after a lot of opportunities, and we've been looking at how can we bring the relationship to its full potential, looking at investment facilitation, look at at how we can do more critical minerals, looking at energy security, and I think at the end, you know, based on the discussion we have the President
with the Minister Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance, I see a lot of opportunities. I think that you know, we have been neighbors by geography, and I think we gain from knowing each other a little bit better. And I think it was very obvious in our discussions today that our Mexican friends really welcome uh this uh, this strategic partnership with Canada and the visit that we have organized to really uh, you know, look at the next steps in our relationship at a critical time uh in the
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Ministers.
What did the president tell you about how she got a nine day extension with Trump?
The conversation with President Shambaum was well over an hour and we discuss many aspects of the bilateral relationship, and we also discussed the desire for a strong North American economy, and in particular, Canada will continue to seek strong relationships both with Mexico and the United States for the benefits of this very important trade negotiation and relationship. I want to stress that Canada's economic relationship with the United States
differs significantly from Mexico's. We have over two billion dollars of trade passing through the Canada US border every single day, and we also have different economic profiles, different levels of integration, and a longstanding economic and defense and security relationship that
is perhaps the most integrated in the world. Therefore, to parse out individual elements of one country's negotiations versus our own is somewhat superficial because the relationship is so very complex, and we really do need to understand that that complexity drives the entire negotiation, which of course is being led by dominic LeBlanc industry.
I think the ministry said it perfectly, Ashley. I mean, first of all, great to be talking. I think what we were focusing Minister Ann and I here was certainly looking at what more we could do with our Mexican partner. You know, I did take the opportunity to put that
in perspective. When you look at the GDP of Mexico in Canada, and if you were to look at the combined GDP, you're looking something close to four trillion, something close to the fifth largest economy in the world when you look at the combined numbers, and also half of the population in the United States. So I think, as Minister And said very eloquently, we both realized that the United States is a strategic partner to both Canada and Mexico.
Geography has made us partners, and not only partners, but I would say trade partners. In our relationship we have deep relationship and on the security fund with respect to our supply chain, with respect to defense. But at the same time, I think, you know our mission here, I would say with Minister and and was really I feel with Mexico we have been neighbors, but we need to
get to know each other a bit better. And I think it was obvious this morning about the things that we could do on the energy side, on the security side, with respect to some supplies and with respect also to the auto sector. So the focus was very much looking forward, how much more we can do together?
Right, And I'll sorry, Ashley, I'll just add one more thing because frostwa Philippe was segueing into the bilateral relationship discussion, and indeed, what we have agreed is to build a work plan between Canada and Mexico which focuses on a number of factors, for example, resilient supply chains, port to port, lines of trade, artificial intelligence and the digital economy, energy security.
And so this conversation not only with President Shanebaum, but also with our ministerial counterparts was very detailed, and in fact, we'll continue throughout the rest of this day and tomorrow, and we're also meeting with a number of members of the business community, because, as we discussed with our Mexican counterparts, it's very much an all hands on deck approach to ensure that we are kickstarting the Canada Mexican bilateral economic relationship.
Probly followup question, Ashley, I hear you're saying about booth countries being different, but there are a lot of Canadians today wondering why Mexico got an extension and Canada. Was there anything you learned during your meeting with the President that can help our bidding answer to Canadians.
We are continuing to share information of all sorts with Mexico, and I will say that our communications with our American counterparts, and that is the bilateral relationship that you're referring to in your question, continues to be constructive and will remain at the table in the interests of the Canadian economy, recognizing that the KUSMA is overall beneficial for the Canadian economy and that we will continue to advocate for Canadian business,
Canadian workers and the Canadian economy overall.
Thank you, Thank you Moderator, Your excellency President Mohamma, excellencis former President of Asanjo, my good friend, former President Zerlive, former President Amina, excellencies, their colleagues and friends, thank you for the opportunity to join you today, and my thanks to President Mohamma for his leadership in convening us to chart a new course for the health, financing and governor
on our continent. The summit builds on the leadership of President Kagame and the work of the Africa Union to strengthen the reliance of African nations on their own resources to finance the health of their own people, and it goes a step further acknowledging that finance alone will not take us to the aspirations of the Lusaka Agenda for
country owned, investment oriented sustainable health systems. Health AID is projected to decline by up to forty percent this year compared to just two years ago.
This is not a gradual shift. It's a cliff age.
Life saving medicines are sitting in warehouses, health workers are losing jobs, clinics are closing.
And millions are missing care. We must all adjust to this new reality. But in this crisis lies.
An opportunity, an opportunity to shake off the yoke of AID dependency and embrace a new era of sovereignty, self reliance and solidarity. Many African leaders have told me they're ready to make that transition, as President Muhammad is demonstrating. And that's the critical first step political commitment from the highest levels. The responsibility for financing strong resilient systems rests with governments. The most efficient and equitable source of health
financing is the national budget. Ghana is leading by example. Earlier this year the parliament past reforms to increase financing for the National Health Insurance Scheme, filling the gap left by donor withdrawal and delivering on the President's President Muhamma's bold commitment to free primary health care for all. That's
what sovereignty looks like. And thank you, mister President. Of course, private capital and philanthropic capital are both very important, but they can only complement public financing and they cannot replace it. And more money alone is not enough. What's important is how effectively that money is used. Who's work with countries has shown that up to thirteen percent of health budgets in law and middle income countries go and spent due to weak public financial system. That is money lost, but
more importantly, it means lives lost. Who is now working with governments and partners here in Africa and elsewhere to strength and value for money in several ways, by developing essential health benefit packages and cost effective policies. By supporting countries to introduce or increase health taxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugary drinks through pull procurement and investment in domestic manufacturing.
By integrating donor funded vertical programs into government led systems based on primary healthcare and through public health insurance and through better jet execution using digital public health financial management system. We must also confront the structural constraints. Debt service burdens are crowding out social investments and donor funding often bypasses national systems, making long term planning almost impossible. We cannot
ignore the broader Econoke context. In twenty twenty three, Africa received seventy four billion US dollars in eight.
But lost ninety billion dollars to illicit.
Financial flaws and fifty five billion dollars to corporate tax exemptions.
So Africa lost.
Much more than it gained from aid, and this is unacceptable. One practical solution is health taxes.
A fifty percent.
Price increase on harmful products like tobacco, alcohol, and sugary drinks could generate an additional three point seven trillion dollars globally within five years and save millions of lives. Beyond domestic reforms, global change is essential w choice using its presence on global flora, from the G twenty to the European Commission, the SEBA Financing for Development, to the UN and the Bricks Group to call for a more democratic,
fair and accountable global health architecture. In May, the World Health Assembly adapted a landmark resolution led by Nigeria or my brother here Mohammed Pate and corresponsored by over twenty five countries including Ghana, South Africa, Senegal and Zambia, calling for more domestic investment and deeper governance reform. It reflects the LUSACA Agenda and the principles of one Plan, One Budget,
One Report. W chious mandate is to support governments in building strong Brazilians inclusive health systems, guided by evidence and grounded in equity. Let me be clear, Africa does not need charity. Africa needs fair terms. As President and Cruma said over sixty years ago, I could we are not interested in handouts. We seek a new international order in which health and development are global rights, not privileges for the few. This is not a dream, it is a choice.
The difference between crisis and opportunity.
Is leadership.
We need leadership from governments to invest in their people and their health. We need leadership from creditors to offer concessional lending at fair terms. We need leadership from donors to strengths and national health systems, not create parallel ones. Ultimately, health is not a cost to be contained. It's an investment to be nurtured in people in stability and in prosperity. And the leadership by President Muhammadau to address these issues
is very timely. Thank you, your excellency, and let's seize this moment not to repair but to transform.
Thank you, Medassie.
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