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Media Radio and your host Michael Floggs. You know, just the other day I got I saw this post on social media talking about how Donald Trump has done such a great job at limiting war, ending wars and such things as he has done things to end wars between India Pakistan, that he has done things to bring about the cease fire between Israel and in Iran, and how he is putting for the peace between Russia and Ukraine.
And what a great job he's doing because President Joe Biden could not have done these the only Donald Trump could have done it. And why is this news isn't reporting on his success stories and bringing about more peace and bringing war to an end on our planet, bringing about the end of some of the imperialism attitudes that
have brought about these wars. Well, here we have it, Okay, So as it turns out they do did this stops up in the in the news recently dead and within the last couple of days as I'm recording this, that uh Iran once again fired missiles against Israel. That the peace and tease fire that Don Trump is talking about may not be so peaceful. That Israel and Pakistan they have called the fighting for a little bit, but because because the actual problems that exists between Israel in Pakistan,
it could pop right back up again. And that that is this little little country called Kashmir right right now, I think it's it's known as the territory, but at one time it was its own country. Sovereign countries and its role in Pakistan have been in a tug of war over this particular territory for quite a number of years, and its the tug of war turned into actual military action. Who who is has the right to dictate what Kashmir actually does? And with these people, however they are going
to live, who's going to govern them? So we still have that out there. Part of the reason why Iran has launched as like against Israel is over Gaza, which has not been settled yet. That there's still an ongoing tension between Palestine and Israel, and most of it has to do with Palestinians went their freedom away from the colonialism.
That is cause that has caused Israel some of these people were in the nineteen forties, their families were sent into sent away from Palestine, and we're turned into refugees sent to Lebanon two because they were bringing Jews from the concentration camps as they were being liberated during World War at the end of World War Two into the area that lives in which is now a totally completely
Jewish state. It is the government. It is a government based on Judaism, the same as Iran's government is based on Israel. The leadership there as much okay well, in order to help quell the idea of Israel. At one point, the United States had negotiated and helped put in place a government in Iran that was agreeable with Israel and made Israel in Iran's allies. The regime that we're talking about that we keep hearing people like Danny Dannon talk about,
falls away from that friendliness. That there is a directive that asks for the end of the colonialism and helps the Palestinian people get to their homes back from nineteen from the nineteen forties, away from the colonialism that actually
built Israel. It isn't about necessarily as much about Hey, Palestine, we're Palestine we don't ever want to share our land with these Jews because the Palestinians, if you scroll it back enough tim into the Roman Empire, you discover that there will always those people living in Palestine because that was a Jewish colony created by the Roman Empire. All right, So we're going to hear a lot more about about
that and other issues. But because we're going to hear from Francine alban Age as he is speaking to the as a special repertoire to the Human Rights CANCIL, that's part of the amazing and her she is an expert on what is actually happening between is your own in Palestine and what is happening in the Middle East as
far as human rights is concerned. Some of them remember this that ultimately, what do you have when we're talking about the situation with war is a lot of times we have a government that is doing things they're saying that they're trying to protect the people, which we took very well. We trow we're not going to we're not going to dispute that. If we are going to dispute is that are they always doing things that the people
themselves either one know about or would agree to. Most people aren't worried about sending someone to go in Israel. People in Israel aren't necessarily in agreement or or or are they paying attention to Israel. Sending troops to Iran is firing nipples back and forth, other than the fact that they can see the nipples being fired and back and forth. When you live in a very small country, you get to see a lot of things happening and
the direct result of these things. So but basically, when you get down to it that most people on this planet, all they simply want to do is live a good life, have to be surrounded by those people that they love, and they want to keep those who they love comfortable,
face and healthy. And that's where the whole idea of human rights comes about, because if once you're protected, protect those rights so that people in general can have a healthy, safe life with their family and friends and those that they love. So why don't we move forward. We're going to hear from Planting Albanis as he talks about the value of human rights in areas of course like Palestine and Israel, and we're also going to going back to
their Canada again. We're also going to hear from the Federal Minister for as I again talking about things like climate change, the Federal Minister of Energy UH Tim Hodginson as he announced an investment into an Alberta based carbon capture project that will help keep our environment safe. And so.
Good afternoon everyone, and then thank you for joining us at the press briefing today. Our speaker today is Miss Francesca Albanisi. She is the Special Rappertor on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since nineteen sixty seven. The Special Rapeta just presented her report to the fifty nine session of the Human Rights Council titled
From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide. We will begin with brief opening statements from the Special Rapeta and she will then take questions over to you, Miss Abanese.
Thank you very much and good afternoon everyone. Mondo and those who are here and those who are following this press conference from AFAR. And I'm sure you have heard or read through my report, the Malast Report, that reveals how corporate profit eating a monetary gain as enable then legiti timized Israel's a legal presence and auction in the Little that remains of historical Palestine, occupied Palestine and territory. What I'm going to tell you paints a very grim
picture in many respects. I could have written this report two years ago and it would have been a fair exposure of the economy of the occupation made of two pillars, a pillar of displacement, a pillar of replacement, held together by an ecosystem of enablers, from financial actors to institutional
knowledge production actors like universities and even charities. So the system is such that today I say Palestine is a crime scene, and actually if it were a crime scene, it would have the fingerprints of all of us through what we purchase, which company we choose to ensure our as an insurer for our car or our home, and the banks where we put our money, the investments we make, and so on and so forth, and even universities where we go where we teach, which we are of which
we are alumni, including those whose silence silence debate around Palestine claiming that there is not enough balance when denouncing genocide. And by the way, both me and Agnes Kalamara for what concerned the appalling decision of the University of Bern not to host a debate. I mean, we were open to the university to invite any PROSCO pro chinocide scholar.
They could find. It's their decision just to silence the debate. However, if the genocide has not stopped, it's not just because there was there has always been an economy.
Of the occupation.
It's because the economy of the occupation has turned into an economy of genocide. And so there have been people and organizations that have profited from the violence, the killing, the maiming, the destruction in Gaza and in other parts of the occupied Palestian territory. Because it's not that the Palestinians in the West Bank and It's Jerusalem are having
the happiest time of their life as we speak. In the past twenty months, while the Israeli army and accompanied by settlers was devastating Palestinian lives and landscapes, the Tel Aviv stock exchanged sword by two hundred and thirteen percent. I must sink over two hundred and twenty billions in market gains, including seventy six point eight billion US dollars
in the past month a loon. So clearly, for some genocide is profitable so what has happened is that the infrastructure that was profiting from the economy of the occupation
has transformed and assisted Israel in this evolution. The report I just presented builds on a database of over one thousand entities that I didn't have the time to investigate with the depth and to analyze from a legal point of view with the rigor that I have for forty eight companies along with their parents, subsidiaries, franchises, licensees, and
consort partners across the sectors. However, if you read this report as a list, as another database, which this doesn't my report doesn't intend to be, I would have failed.
I would fail.
My report exposes a system, something that is so structural and so widespread and so systemic that there is no possibility to fix it and redress it.
It is to be dismantled.
And you know, had businesses and had the corporate sector observed due diligence, had Eon or its commitment to do due diligence even before October seven, twenty twenty three, he would have disengaged completely and totally from its entanglement with Israeli economy. Because, first of all, it's a fiction that there is a line dividing separating the good Israel within Israel and the bad Israel in the occupied territory.
No, the economy is one.
Israel's economy is one and one only and encapsulates the colonies. The colonies do not exist because some fringy part of the Israeli society is pioneering into the wild wild West Bank. No, it's because this is resolving the housing crisis in Israel. These people leave and try and within a system that is so connected that it's part of the Israeli state.
And also this is this is you can see that evidently when you look at the water grid on the electricity greed, the occupied Palestine and charity does not exist as separated from Israel. So I mean, member SAIDs can continue to reassure themselves that they might al alimit prevent settlement goods from circulating in their markets.
But this is not enough.
Actually, it's just another it would be another phase saving solution. Because excuse me, when sanctions were imposed on appartheid South Africa, was it because of the crimes that and the violence and the racism and the discrimination and the upper tide that South Africa was imposing on its non white population, or for just what South Africa was doing in the band to stand. Do you understand the performance of stupidity that we have all been part of for decades and
now it's the time to stop. If sixty thousand people killed do not push us to take in seriously international obligations, then we really really beyond the pale. So here's what I conclude. There is no possibility, no possibility to stepping out of this situation other than for Member states to do with the International Court of Justice dem MANS, through its ruling and through its provisional measures, imposing an arms embargo immediately. It's not about asking for fire. This is
not a war. This is a general sidal campaign and it's clear and now it's cider carried out under the pretense of humanitarian food distribution. This is a death trap and we should learn really to be honest, including yourself. I mean, I've been really, really generous to the media because the first corporate entity to be mistigated in this mandate was yours and it will come.
But again, now it's time for an.
Arms arms embargo, and it's time for businesses to cut ties with the very fact of engaging in something that concerns and translates in the economic gain and profits. It's problematic. Less companies and their executives are ready to face responsibility and even criminal liability.
Thank you, Thank you, Special Rappetave. She will now take questions. We'll start in the room. Uh, this go ahead.
Thank you.
The forty eight companies that you name in your report, is there anything that you think the customers of those companies ought to be doing?
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We're going to take about four questions at a time, and the Special Rappetive will get to each one sequentially.
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I apologize. So what should consumers of these companies do? First of all, I would like to clarify that the first responsibility is not on the consumers. I mean, of course, I think that we should be We should wake up and realize that we are part of a system where we are all entangled, and choices that we make in the u k. Or in Switzerland have an impact elsewhere
in Congo and in Palestine, for example. So this is it's good to be conscientious, but the first the first, and so it's important today to listen to uh those in the civil society, the scholars, the lawyers, investigative journalists who have exposed the entanglement of the companies we are clients of.
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But the first responsibility remains with member state and then companies. So companies who do not divest should be held accountable. I do think that there is a possibility for consumers to hold that this company is accountable because we somewhat we we vote through our wallet, right and therefore, probably this year, it's the most modest contribution not to support the the erasure of Palestine is stopping normalizing the occupation
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Okay, yes, thank you very much. My name is Satoko Dachi. I work for Japanese Dately newspaper, Your mute symbom, could you give us a sense of how many percent of the Israeli working population is engaged in either the economy of occupation or the economy of genocide.
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You didn't okay, I repeat my question. I just want to get a sense of the how many percent of the Israeli walking populations engaged in either economy of the genocide or the economy of occupation?
Can you hear me?
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Looking at the at the surveys, I can tell you there is still a lot of support, ideological political support for the choices the Israeli government is taking when it comes to making when it comes to to Gaza, the West mank and is Jerusalem.
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Israelis and international activists the only ones to stand with their own body in between the soldiers, the armed settlers and the Palestinian villagers attacked. The majority is either inactive, indifferent or the There is a significant part of the population which supports the most settled, colonized, colonization driven government. More explicity, colonization driven government that has ever.
Led the state of Israel.
How many participate benefits from the economy in a state where there is not one sector other than the NGOs that stand against occupation or crimes abarthide I cannot tell you, but again today we should, as I said, we should stop looking at Israel and occupied Palestine and territory as if there were two different entities. And this is why I call for sanctions to be imposed on the States. And this is something that hopefully would lead to an awakening of the of the Israeli society itself. And I
resent the limited and I have with this society. And I want to make the point that the few times I've been asked for an interview by ISRAELITYVASE then have been canceled. I've been available even when they were late, and then they're canceled, So there is no possibility for me to pass these messages. But I do firmly believe that Israeli society is also with very different sents of responsibility.
Part of the I mean victimized by these apartheid because they are indoctrinated to a point of dehumanizing the Palestinians and not recognizing them as their peers. And this is unfortunately a state endeavor that comes from Afar.
Thank you. We're just going to move to some questions online.
We have you read, yes, thank you.
I have two questions, if possible, so the first one will be about the fact that the US administration it seems that they're training to have you out from your mandate. Some US medias say that the Trump administration sent an official letter to the Secretary General in order to have you out. Do you have any comments on that and is it true? Because from now we have this only through media. And my second question is regarding the creation
of a special tribunal for Israel. Is it something that you will support if it will be pushed by different countries, because, for example, when it comes to Ukraine and Russia, the western countries are the first that want the creation of a special tribunal. Do you see a kind of volunteers from these same countries when it comes to Israel? And do you think that it can happen one day?
I I serve with a lot of pain and sacrifice this mandate upon requests of the Human Rights Counsel. Not just what happened last in the last three months. The fact that the Council embraced without challenging it, the decision of the the finding of the Coordinating Committee that I have not acted in violations of the could have conduct was reassuring because the only thing I wanted to do three months ago, after engaging so much of my of my time, and sacrificing so much of my own life
to serve this mandate with honesty and integrity. I really wanted to present this report because I knew that I really believe that while yeah, member States are aware, are aware, and people are aware of the violations, it's difficult to see the system and many are genuinely.
Surprised of this picture.
What I shared and what reassures me, is that what I've seen today in that room at the Human Rights Counsel is something I've never seen. Forget the applausus, I mean, but I've never seen such an almost what we will support an endorsement for my mandate before. So yeah, I accept that there might be some divergent views, and we can live with the fact that we agree to disagree. I'm, as you, an a special repperteur, and I should be
respected as such. If any Member States as issue with it, they can talk to their colleagues in the Human Rights Council and the creation of a special tribunal. Look, I do believe that justice is absolutely necessary. I've often said that while the we have international courts, we have the International Criminal Court, we have the International Court of Justice, we also have universal jurisdictions over the crime of genocide.
And I do imagine the Palestine trials. I mean, people sometimes ask me, do you imagine the Palace the Nuremberg trials for Palestine. Yesess, I imagine the Palestine trials, which would be the full realization of justice across the border, because crimes are across the border. Human rights violations clearly show that there are responsibilities across the border, and therefore I want to see lawyers and practitioners Barris Tears and he invested in supporting civil society and work with judges
and prosecutor to believers some justice. I'm not given thoughts yet consideration myself to the idea of a special tribunal. While I do think that the question of Palace time is so big, it is so overwhelming the injustice that the Palestinians have experience, which doesn't take anything away the from the injustices that the Jewish people have endured and suffered for centuries, which is also what triggers some moat and entered into Palestine. But never one justice, one injustice
as as justified another injustice. So now it's the time to look at what for seventy seven years, actually for one hundred years the Palestinians have endured, and probably one adult mechanism would make sense. However, however, I also know that accountability per se, retributive justice, and even political solutions that take into account realize the rights and freedoms of all, because this is the only solution that I that I see, the only political solution that I see as necessary and vabull.
Then it will be up to the Palestinians and Israelis to decide in what form of state. Thirty three years later the beginning of the this process, they want to live in one state to state states, It's up to them to decide. However, However, I also think that the world that particularly my part of the of the world struggles with and it's very necessary both for the Palestinians
and Israeli, is healing, healing. There is a huge sense of trauma and probably we can't even reckon the depth of it right now, as the Palestinians in Gaza will have to survive, will have to be helped recover from what they have suffered, and they will need all our humanity, all the humanity that we have been prevented from showing them.
But also the Israelis will need healing because when they will realize what they have done in the name of an ideology that has turned into a political doctrine and that has sent its youngest citizens into carrying out genocide, called the war a war of revenge, they will need more support than others in in stainings solid and sate mentally saying so this is what I think.
Thank you, Olivia. I'm also online, thank.
You, thank you very much. Selon quit about from Royt's here, It's just interested in what kind of response you had from overport. I think your report mentioned that you contacted a number of companies that were named like have you had any kind of good.
Engagements with those companies?
Have any of them been willing to kind of sit with you, have they kind of suggested any potential shift and in their in their business models.
And then secondly, this is just related to something.
You said in the Council you described the Gods of Humanitarian Foundation as a death trap. I'm just wondering what evidence, in your role as a special reporteur you've heard in terms of the types of injuries that people have been sustaining while trying to receive food aid. But also if you can maybe help us with clarification, because the GHF has consistently said that these deaths are not happening near its sites. Do you believe that that is an accurate statement by the GHF?
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So, first of all, I've I've notified the old companies that have been named in the report, and I've not just shared with them the facts that I found in violation of national law. For each of them, I've developed and this is something that goes beyond what has been
done in other similar cases. For each of them, I have provided a detailed analysis, a case by case legal analysis, so where I found their nonconformity with international law translating into violation of the right of self determination, other human rights violations, and even war crimes or crimes against humanity to an extent in which cases they could be embroiled in the crime of genocide. So the following this, eighteen
companies replied. The others didn't. And of these eighteen, I can say that only a small number engaged with me in good faith, because a number of them reasserted what I had said and saying that there was absolutely nothing wrong that I was in the sense I was hallucinating. I was not reading international law correctly, and that's okay.
We will see.
Clearly they don't understand international law. Clearly they think that
that international law is there to make excuses. And frankly they are in good companies because we just come from twenty months in which international human rights law violations have been justified as compliance with international humanitarian law like first displacement renamed, rebranded, like evacuation orders to population moved into the safe zones or yeah, safe zone, death zones which have become a safe zones, collateral damage humanitarian no human shields,
and even the Gaza Humanidary Foundation is yet another chapter of the of the humanitarian camouflage. And I also think they are in good company when it comes to member states, because it's incredible how member states, for example, European States use the European Union to justify their non compliance with
their international law obligations. Look, it's very very simple, the International Court of justic because you everyone says, no, we can't call genocide because there is no court to determination. First of all, since January twenty twenty four, the Court recognized the risk of a reparable harm to the policyanes in Gaza under the Genocide Convention, which means they recognize the plausibility of genocide, which means that this is the
moment that the obligation to prevent kicked in. So if one has to be serious about reading international law.
Literally.
But you know they say no, but the European Union, the European Union doesn't allow. I mean, we are waiting for other UM member states to to take measures to suspend the agreements. Now you need to suspend your transactions with Israel because you have signed international treaties and because there's some of the valolations that we are under our eyes amount to crimes, so there might be a complicity.
And therefore it's so sad as a European to see that European Union, such a nobel institution has become and the index behind which to hide in order to justify the non compliance with international law. So it's in the United States and the United Nations as well, because when I say, yeah, you should disengage and impose and arms embargo like member states from the Global Majority are already doing.
By the way, Yeah, the Hague Group is a very nobel small but noble attend to to to start from addressing the root causes instead of a symptom for for a change. So I do believe that nonetheless, the companies need to understand. And this is why I was so
so anxious to have this report presented. And so this is the only good thing that I've really the silver lining of these past months despital pressure, seeing that this would allow this report, would allow people to understand to have no further excuses being directly linked to these occupation, this unlawful occupation, because the International Court of Justice has said the occupation is unlawful. So we have a decision
of the International Court of justiceing this is unlawful. Member states have to disengage, not to recognize as illegal, not to aid and assist ensure that the cessation, and even and even ensure that there are reparations from Israel to the Palestinians in the occupied policy and territory. So in the face of all these violations, how can ever be argued morally and legally that a private actor is allowed to do what a member state is not allowed to do.
So again, I think that this is a pivotal moment. There have been other defining moments, as I was saying in the Council in human history, to bring businesses which normally escape accountability to account.
And this is this moment.
Palestine is really forcing us to that test. The Gauza humanitarian foundation is absolutely a death strap. I willn't know how to call the six hundred people who have been killed while trying to reach aid. Also the very the very So first of all, this is the most I mean, the term humanitarian absolutely cannot be utilized in a serious fashion toward that thing, because humanitarian aid must follow certain principles, the principle of humanity, the principle of dignity, the principle
of protection of even life. So creating no harm. This creates harm. It's not a dignified way to distribute food. And AID is not providing all the aid that is adequate, So what are we talking about, So without even looking at it as a killing machine, it's not providing aid. And again I restate it's ludicrous. It's ludicrous that international community is not.
Forcing is.
Breaking the blockade, because this is the only sensible thing that should be done right now, Send all the country which have a port in the Mediterranean Sea should send the Navy with medical personnel under their responsibility under their flag, medical personnel, food, and any other necessity sorrysy necessary equipment to save life, including baby formula. So this is what Member States should do. Instead they stay there, criticizing at best the.
Gaza Humanetarian Foundation.
Again, this is one of the most sadistic exercises in intellectual gymnastics I've ever come across. And then the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation are saying that the killing is not happening near the site. Well, I've gone through plenty of video evidence.
Of course, neither you nor I are there. I wish, I wish journalists could be allowed in the fact that it's not happening, while all the journalists that are available in Gaza are Bill Key are being killed one by one by one by one, and we have surpassed it two hundred and twenty. Now it's evidence that probably Israel doesn't want for the testimonies for their witnesses in this.
What else I can I say?
Thank you, yes, thank you Robin Millard from AFP. I don't know if you've had the chance to see what Israel has to say about your report, they said, And I'm quoting here that it's motivated by an obsessive, hate driven agenda to delegitimize the state of Israel. And they say that you're reported again. I'm quoting is legally groundless, depameatory and a flagrant abusive office. What is your response to what they have to say? Thank you?
I have no comment, Yes, madame.
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Thank you miss Abanis for this pressure. I just want to return to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and after the way you described the organization, I want to ask what do you see a need for an urgent new case in front of I C j or ic C over recent killings of eight scus near the mechanism. Thank you.
I'm really reassured by the fact that this company has been this entity has been the registered I hope this is the right term because I saw it in between the interactive dialogue and the press conference. But so I see that it doesn't have a protected necessarily protected status in Switzerland, in Geneva anymore, and this is reassuring. However, there is a need again, there is a need for accountability, no question about that. But I think that we need
to get out of the chronicling approach and mentality. Of course, each incident requires analysis and investigation, but it's the we need to look at the ensemble, get step away from the detail. Everything is happening in the context of a destructive, intentionally destructive assault the Israel has launched against the Pas Palestinians in Gaza, which is also echoed and mirrored by the violence that has escalated and intensified against the Palestinians
in the West Bank. Really, there is little capacity to understand that the two pieces of these fragments are together. The Palestinian territory that the Israel has occupied since nineteen sixty sevent is one.
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Treated as a territorial territorial unity, and so Israel is doing I mean, it's unleashing violence against the Palestinians with the same animals, with the same spirit, moving them out and with all means possible, clearly, and I do believe that it's necessary to see that this is not the
first genocide that consists of several of other crimes. And it's in the in the inter real and interplay of all these conducts and of all these crimes, that one can also see how abandoned the Palestinians feel to this criminal design and to their destiny in their situation.
Isabelle, yes, good afternoons. Thank you very much for this press conference.
And you said that only sorry, only a small number of companies accepted engaged with you after receiving your report. But I would like to know if any any.
Company or a few companies.
Told you that they will reassess or analyze their businesses in Israel or businesses that affects the occupy Palestine and territories. And also as second part of my questions, I am sorry if I focus on one company, but you mentioned a trying building a Spanish company, and I would like to ask you because you mentioned in the report that they participate with other companies in the to expand the
traum the public transport in Jerusalem. But I would like to to pres to be precise, if these expansions are touched to is Jerusalem, why what is the problem in this case and if this company has replied something to.
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But even if you think of the for me the most shocking one, and it's a part peculiar, uh, not a peculiar, but it is a it's particularly serious for me that the Norwegian pension funds staysm engaged in the in the Occupied Palestine and territory by supporting businesses because I've really engaged with the government of Norway, with which
I've always had really good and solid, respectful engagement. But again the Norwegian Pension Fund, I mean, the engagement I've had so far with their governing body and their Ethnic Council suggests indicates that there is clear misunderstanding of international
law obligations. So I truly hope that this report will give the possibility also to the civil society, to the international lawyers in Norway, like in other countries, for for the other companies and the other entities named, to engage with the with the government and otherwise if this doesn't cease, well there should be accountability and.
So for example against staying in Norway.
I've seen parliamentarians for example starting to uh to to take to confront the government more robustly. I've also seen in recent hours the divestment from two companies, which I welcome and this needs to continue to continue. For what concerned the company The ask company you mentioned is the CAFF. The CAFFE participate with other companies in expanding the public transport in Jerusalem, and it's the Jerusalem light Rail Consortium, which is also mentioned in the h c h R database.
In the sense the consortium that CAFFE has established is with with companies mentioned with at least two companies mentioned in the in the database.
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But also the lines that caff is In is involved in in building include part of the part of their their their their trucks in the in the West Bank. And these lines connect colonies colonies with Jerusalem. The colonies are connected through through through this transport through transportation lines with Israel, and as I said, this is illegal, it shouldn't happen.
This company is helping.
Israel facilitate the replacement of the Palestinians and the strengthening of them of the colonies which are in and of themselves, as I said, many times were crime and violation of the International Humanitarian Law framework.
Thank you.
I think that's all the questions.
We have another another element that I should add because it also shows how the businesses are connected. There are other companies that I've mentioned in the report, like the sun Involvo Excavators machinery that I've been used and there the materials that other companies, like how the Heidelberg I've provided I've been used to supply the building of these of the light rail bridge.
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For Canada to fully seize this opportunity, accelerated and coordinated action is needed across public and private sectors. Your new federal government is working to create the conditions that put private dollars to work for Canadians right here in Alberta,
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it These are not just investments in Canadian companies. These are investments in the people of Alberta, in the long term future of the oil and gas industry, and in the technologies of tomorrow. These are investments in a tide that will lift all Canadian boats. The world is changing, It's an uncertain place right now, but Canada has always been a country of builders, dreamers and doers. So let's rise to that challenge, not with hesitation, but with boldness.
Let us turn this moment into an opportunity. We will lead, we will innovate, and we will power our country and the world. The Canadian your way, if that's your vision, and for those here today and across this great province, I think it is. Your government is right here with you. Thank you, MERSI, thank you miniature and aunction. I would now like to introduce Paul Hawksworth, President and chief executive Officer of Injured Pipeline.
Thank you Corey, Thank you minister. It is my honor to welcome you all here today on behalf of both Injured Pipeline and the Full Bow Valley Carbon Hub team, which includes our partners Entropy, a global leader in modular cond recapture and storage solutions. At inter Pipeline, we are a premier provider of essential energy, infrastructure and products that improved people's lives for decades to come. We are one of Canada's largest midstream companies with over twenty billion of
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The first phase was built over fifty years ago through collaboration between government and industry, and it was based on a vision that Canada could do more with our natural resources and has been banded and modernized several times since then. Beginning under the leadership of then Premier Peter Laid, that vision took hold, becoming the facility that you know today, a critical piece of Alberta and Canadian infrastructure that ultimately
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kilometers underground. That There are many different opportunities right across the province, but one benefit here is this is one of the deepest formations that would be storing, providing an unprecedented level of safety. Combined with our innovative monitoring technologies, the Bow Valley Carbon Hub brings together into pipelines, safety record, our project execution, and our deep commitment to our communities. It is further strengthened by enter Piece subsurface specialization and
their operational expert expertidens that they bring to us. It is supported by the innovative work from across Canada's research industry. We look forward to working with our industry partners, indigenous communities and other stakeholders to build even stronger relationships that can drive our energy industry forward in Canada and shape carbon capture storage as it's deployed more rapidly across this province.
Thank you again, Minister for joining us today. In your comments about Canada becoming an energy superpower, I've heard you say many times, how critical it is that we continue to demonstrate our commitment globally and to our fellow Canadians that we are responsible industry. Bow Valley Carbon demonstrates that commitment. It is a tangible step forward, proving how government, communities and industry can work together to deliver real, tangible and measurable results.
Thank you.
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