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I'm your host, my clogs. All right, So in this next episode, what we are going to hear and discuss, Well, we're still kind of stuck on the Donald Trump thing, and we're gonna we're gonna hear comments from Melanie Jolie about showing up borders as as anyone in the world knows that the longest and most unprotected border between countries in the world is between the US and Canada. Well, and that because is there because of kind of a symbiotic kind of relationship to Canada and the United States

actually have. Well, mister Trump wants to wants to kind of end that relationship. He wants he wants more protection across that border, and he wants Canada to actually pay for that protection to be there. He wants to ensure that there will be no illegal drugs, there will be no illegal immigrants, which there is virtually none of matter of fact, if the illegal drugs crossing that border actually come from the United States into Canada, I know that if I go to a certain point in near where

I live, that I can watch what. I don't even need binoculars to see them dropping the illegal fitanol, cocaine, whatever the substance is into the water just south the beach and see another little boat go out and bring it back into Canada. In which case we hear about in Surrey, BC, these large seizures of weapon caches and illegal drugs that actually were smuggled in from the United States into Canada, not the other way around. Mister Trump

needs to actually get his facts straight. He needs to actually get his figures correct, because he would find that he's more of a detriment to Canada than Canada is to the United States. Anyway, we're going to continue and we're going to listen to what Jolie and has to say, because what she is trying to do is circumvent or prevent terrorists from happening. And she's she's going at this as as a diplomat, which she is a great diplomat.

She knows what she's doing. When when with diplomacy, she knows how to negotiate with political and government officials, well, there's where the problem begins. When dealing with Donald Trump because he's neither of those. He may be sitting in the seat of the president of the United States, he may be in the oval office, but he knows he knows nothing about diplomacy, and he knows nothing about truly running a government. He knows nothing about compassion for people.

All he knows is I want my way, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to get my way. And trying to deal with him on a as as a reasonable person is probably gonna be a mistake. But we're gonna hear comments from from Melanie Jolie as she's also talking about trying to circumvent mister Trump by using the fact that each and every governor has power to either accept or deny what the federal government is actually doing.

When when it comes to dealing with with uh with sources from outside the country, they have the right to to circumvent the tariff at at a state level when the products alive arrive into their particular state. So there she is actually trying to deal with with some things that way. Also, she is also trying to deal with homeland security and the fact that they want to keep that border between the US and Canada demilitarize. They don't want to see a lot of military action or any

of those sort of things happen on that border. One parts of that border, uh is is deep inside of forested areas and make making it very hard to to to use human beings to patrol the area. They have a lot of electronic devices and things like that to actually monitor what is happening along that border, and if you do something illegal along along there, it does actually come up on either side of that there would be

trouble on the way. So it isn't an unprotected It is a demilitarized border, but it is not an unprotected border. And that is the thing to remember is that there are a lot of devices, satellites and things like that that are actually monitoring that border and keeping it under control. So we're also going to hear from the Green Party

as there is a co leadership situation happening there. Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pernall are going to co lead the Green Party and they have a lot of initiatives that would protect our environment as well as increase our commerce so that hey, Canada becomes the country it's supposed to be the Canada of Great Commerce, the Canada of great compassion, the Canada of great environment, the Canada that looks out

for every life that is on our planet. So with that, why don't we start with Melanie Jolie and then we will eventually lead into Elizabeth May and Jonathan and as they talk about the Green Party and its future. And as a sidebar, we're actually going to hear from Ontario where they are talking about new healthcare amendments it and how their healthcare system is not leaving anyone behind.

continue to engage with our different American counterparts. I'll be heading to Washington to meet Marco Rubio on Wednesday, and also I'll be in contact and I've been in contact with Tom Holman, the borders are of President Trump. David and I are having conversations with Tom Holman shortly, and we know that President Trump has been referring a lot to the border. Again, we have a very good border plan. It is being implemented, and David will be able to

talk to you about the latest on this front. When it comes to our trade relationship, also, of course, we know that the US has a surplus with US if we don't take into account our energy exports, which are driven by the US demand. So at this point, the trade surplus that the US has with US is around sixty billion dollars, which includes goods and services. We are the largest export market for thirty six states of the United States, and we're still the biggest customer to the US.

So Canada is the biggest customer to the US. So that's for the first point, which is preventing tariffs. When it comes to the second point of our response, we will be ready for day one, and we've been saying that and we are ready. I'll be talking this week to the British Foreign Minister. I'll be also talking to key European foreign ministers. I've been in constant contact with. Also my Mexican counterpart. And our objective, as I said, has been and will continue to be to prevent teriffs.

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and fifty years of relationship. It remains the longest undefended border in the world, and we intend to try to keep it that way. I think our American colleagues share the same view. The plan that we are implementing is multifaceted. It involves political outreach, official outreach, and operational outreach. So clearly I'll be meeting with eventually, for example, the new Department of Homeland Security Secretary Msnome. We'll be talking to

Tom Holman, we expect this week. At the same time, we have officials who are in and out of Washington, DC working with our American counterparts and operationally, the CBSA and the RCNP are in const in touch with their counterpart organizations in the United States, so we're making huge progress. This plan is a plan which is of course international between Canada the United States, but it's also a plan

between different orders of government in this country. We've reached out to and engaged every single province in the country. They are engaged. In the case of Alberta, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Quebec. They're making for example, some of their police authorities available, police of local jurisdiction are helping us on the border. This is a very very good thing and they should be commended for doing so because it really is a team Canada response. We're working, for example, on

the question of fentanyl. It's important for Canadians to remember less than one percent of all fentanyl entering the United States is coming from Canada. Less than one percent of illegal immigration in the United States is coming from Canada. So we are tightening up even further our border to deal with some of these challenges. And as I say, it's a federal provincial relationship and partnership, it's an inter agency partnership, it's a bilateral partnership, and we've seen huge

progress in the last three to four months. So we are continuing to make progress on the implementation of this plan.

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What a good time to be sure that we'd finalized our election platform by having an in person retreat with the shadow Cabinet that I've been working with for years and a lot of people. This is our first time in person since before COVID, so for a lot of people is the first time they met with each other.

In order of what we're going to do today, I also want to stop and pause to recognize that this is the eightieth anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and for all those who still grieve the show awareness of monstrous genocide should not be forgotten and when we say never again, we really should mean it. Oh. So, January twenty seventh, the Deparliament was supposed to resume with lots of bills, lots of work to do. We're going

to reflect on the work that didn't get done. And Mike Morris MP for Kitchener Center will present that part of our reflections. But first I want to introduce someone you don't know it all as she's the nominated candidate for the Green Party of Canada in North Island Powell River, and she was nominated by the group to sort be our spokesperson for how the weekend went and what it was like to all be together. Jessica Wegg is a lawyer in Comoc's Bcie.

proposals with Canadians in the coming weeks. But let me be clear, this is a new, reinvigorated Green Party and you can expect bold, decisively progressive proposals from us.

the next member of Parliament from Guelph. Gwelph is, of course the home riding for the valiant and most effective opposition leader in Queen's Park Leader of the Green Party of Ontario, Mike Schriner. So we like having double Green ridings. There are several across the country, and so at this moment I want to turn to Mike Morris for his reflections on what didn't get done the last time I

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As one example, the disability community continues to call to guarantee that the Canada Disability Benefit will be delivered as this government promised in Budget twenty twenty four by July first. That means they must finalize the regulations before March seventh to ensure the regardless of the partisan theatrics of the day, that the disability community deserves to see not only a fixed,

but a fully funded Canada disability bendun passible. That's why Elizabeth and I wrote the Minister Responsible last week calling for her to ensure that this government guarantees the Candida

Disability Benefit. We'll be meeting with her office later this afternoon to lift up the calls of the disability community, continuing, as I shared, to call to fix the Candida Disability Benefit and in the meantime, at the very least to ensure that they guarantee that the meager version of the benefit previously announced is delivered, regardless of the theatrics of the day on this and so many others, whether it's

related to the housing crisis, the climate. Both Elizabeth and I are continuing to work on behalf of our communities and will continue to do so until an election is called.

the way through to British Columbia. And my husband's going to run in what used to be Mission maps we Phraser Canyon, but it's been redistributed. But if I started introducing people, it'll take too long. I did want to say apropos of Mike's comment that we keep working. The day after House Perogue, I wrote to Justin Trudeau and all the other opposition party leaders Pierre Puallev and Ifro Solbaschet and Jack me singing and said, look, bills just

died that we'd spent. I mean the equivalent of millions of dollars of work, both within departments, by parliament by standing committees. A lot of these bills have gone through clause by clause amendments, bills that were so close to passage. For my community, Bill C thirty three that would help us deal with freighters getting free parking in the Salish Sea and dragging anchors and threatening the survival of Southern

resident killer whales. If Bill C thirty three could be singled out as having enough cross party support to get passed quickly when the House resumes C. Seventy one to fix the lost citizenship issue ready to go, a lot of cross party support could exist. I've asked the other party leaders to meet during this time that we have. We got to meet on December third to talk about the Trump threat. Well, we should be meeting again, but

in any case, no one's answered my letter yet. If anyone was wondering all of that said, we do have an announcement to make, and you might have noticed, I'm very pleased to be joined once again, and as you Dona, Parol Chia colegg Amy, Jonathan pedno On Canada, oh Qebec, Pat Jonta.

some of you might wonder why. Last year, early in the year, I did receive some fairly difficult life altering news about my health, something that's as a thirty four year old was somewhat difficult to reckon with, and even though I tried to keep going, at some point it became very clear to me that I needed to take a bit of a step back and reflect about my place not only in the world and in politics, but also about I could be slightly kinder to myself after

fourteen fifteen years in conflict areas some fairly difficult work, and so I took a step back. I needed that

to reflect. In the fall of last year, I was lucky enough to be prompted thrown back into the work that I did for many, many years in conflict areas, work that then led me in the fall and the winter of twenty twenty four and places like Georgia and Syria to places where people are fighting and have been fighting for democracy and freedom, two values that I think we oftentimes take for granted as Canadians, to core treasures that are founding fathers and mothers have been building in

this country, to values that are now under threat, and that of course, was with every single time passed in those places, always a bit of a reckoning about whether I was actually in the right place now. Of course, the tragic, in fact despicable election south of the border of a president that is a sewaging fascism and creating right south of the border, a threat to our way of living, to our values, meant that I simply couldn't

stand on the sidelines anymore. The situation we're in is a situation I've seen many other peoples throughout the planet, from Venezuela to Cuba to Ukraine and other countries that are far less privileged, or have been far less privileged in Canada has been Those are situations that I'm well accustomed with, Situations where populist leaders or threats from outside start to grow, and where independence, our way of life

comes under threat. These are difficult times to reckon with, and with fourteen years spent in conflict areas, I thought that here was something that I could bring back to politics. As someone who's been to the front lines, as someone who spent time speaking with people tortured, with mothers having lost their children, I do know what that reality looks like in practice, and it is one that we will,

as Greens, do everything in our power to avoid. So I was extremely, extremely glad when the party reached out to me and asked me to come back to assume, pending a vote by the members, the position of co Leader for the Green Party of Canada.

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to discuss my health situation more. But this is something that I will absolutely be doing in the weeks and months ahead. Stack Lillipok is Upsta only the absurd on the abs focusy so living performance, polyN the party.

So the meeting of members as planned and as Jonathan said, with phenomenal support, happened in mid November, and we are following the rules of the party. And I didn't ever say they were obstacles. I know people read that into it, wanted to make more out of it. As a Jonathan said, we repeated many times in a very emotional press conference, especially for me because I really hated to see him leave.

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the south, with the cost of living situation. Those are the things that we are focused on and those are the most important things for Greens right now.

twenty twenty nine. Under the leadership of Premier Forward, our government has been making record investments in healthcare, taking bold action and making innovative changes to connect people to the

care they need, when and where they need it. We are expanding capacity, reducing weight times and waitlists, by improving access to key services such as primary care, diagnostic imaging, home care and hospital care in communities across Ontario, and taking action to maintain and expand Ontario's health care workforce. For a third year in a row, Ontario has added a record number of new nurses and new physicians, registering a total of one hundred thousand nurses and fifteen thousand

physicians since twenty eighteen. Ontario leads the country with some of the shortest weight times for critical services, the largest physician and nurse practitioner workforce, the highest number of people with access to a regular healthcare provider, and we are

not stopping there. Our government has launched the largest expansion of the medical school education system in over a decade, adding over three hundred and forty undergraduate and five hundred and fifty one residency spots and opening two new medical schools in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University and York University.

We are creating new pathways to train more family doctors than ever before by expanding the Learn and Stay Grant to include family medicine and introducing the Practice Ready Ontario program to license internationally trained family docs more quickly. Together, these programs will add nearly fifteen hundred new family doctors and communities across the province over the next three years.

And we have taken the first step in expanding interprofessional primary care teams, including family health teams and nurse practitioner led clinics, connecting nearly three hundred and thirty thousand more people to primary care in their community by creating or expanding seventy eight primary care teams, seventy two of which

are now open and taking on new patients. To continue to move forward to close the remaining gap of people who do not have access to a regular healthcare provider and get across the finish line of connecting everyone in Ontario to more convenient primary care. I am pleased to announce our government is investing one point eight billion dollars to support the work of the Primary Care Action Team and their mandate to connect every person in Ontario to

primary care by twenty twenty nine. Through this historic investment, Ontario's Primary Care Action Team, led by doctor Philbot, will implement an action plan that includes key initiatives and draws on best in class models of primary care being delivered across Ontario to ensure that no matter where you live in the province, you are connected to a publicly funded primary care team made up of family physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, midwives,

and many other healthcare professionals. The work of the Primary Care Action Team is another important way our government is building on our progress to create a more connected and convenient healthcare system by providing more people with the right care in the right place for years to come. It's now my pleasure to invite doctor Philpot to share a few words and provide more details about Ontario's primary Care action plan. Thank you, stay well, thank you.

long term health is established. Whether you're talking about preventing illness, managing chronic conditions, or providing continuity of care, primary care clinicians such as family doctors, nurse practitioners, etc. Play an essential role in keeping people healthy. And it's not just about improving health outcomes. It's about improving the quality of life and the quality of health care for people. It's about creating a primary care system that works for both

the people of Ontario and our dedicated healthcare professionals. So that is why the Government of Ontare is announcing today an investment of one point eight billion dollars that will connect two million more people to family doctors, nurse practitioners and primary care teams by the year twenty twenty nine. Sepurquis news an vestisson am veguluit miliar de do las port eguier scheq person on Ontario to connecte and mid sinte fermi nan femier practicienes hu uniqui dessoine premier d

c de mill vend niff. Through this plan, Ontario will build a primary care system that ensures it no matter where you live in this province, you can be connected to a primary care team made up of family doctors and nurse practitioners and other valued healthcare professionals such as nurses,

physician assistants, social workers, pharmacists and many more. Through our Primary Care Action Plan, we are going to work with primary care clinicians, health system partners and communities to connect everyone to more convenient primary care by twenty twenty nine. Through the government's historic investment, we will be creating more than three hundred new and expanded primary care teams that

will attach approximately two million people to primary care. This includes over two hundred and thirty five million dollars over this next fiscal year to establish and expand eighty additional primary care teams across the province, attaching three hundred thousand more people to care. As part of this work, we intend to connect everyone who is currently on the Healthcare Connect wait list as of January first this year to a primary care provider by the spring of twenty twenty six.

We want to make the process of finding a primary care provider easier and more convenient. Dona cadre denote plan le gouvernaiment and vestigat d'ntplue de trois song as a keep de swamp premier nouvelle a a lar gie offended duane acce as a swamp premier at envens du million de personnuvoulon egel monentre les processst finance mon de plu facile a plu commode. That's why well. We will be making improvements to Healthcare Connect to improve both the user

and provider experience. As part of this we will work towards a Healthcare Connect weight time target of no more than twelve months to be connected to a primary care team. We also want to ensure that patients can access their healthcare at their fingertips. As part of our action plan, we will leverage Health eight one point one to allow you to view online your health records, to book an appointment with your primary care provider and discover your care options.

We also, need, of course, to ensure that we are supporting our primary care clinicians. This means continuing to address the administrative burden with digital tools such as AI scribes, modernizing the ways of information sharing, and improving the referral process to specialists. We know there is a lot of work to do to recruit and retain the workforce needed to support primary care providers and their teams, including family doctors,

nurse practitioners and other allied health professionals. This is just the beginning and there is much more work to do in collaboration with our partners in primary care. This includes regular reporting on the progress we've made to connect everyone to primary care. Ontario is embarking on an historic opportunity to build a primary care system where the guarantee of access to a primary care team is as automatic as a child being assigned to a public school in their community.

Lontariot Profit, Duno Causion, Historic Purmetro Surpier and system suampremier, Ula garanti accepmer a, Ossi automatique, Pilascurans, puchak detreignn call publique dons a collectivity. This plan is ambitious and the changes will not happen overnight, but when our shared vision is realized, we will have a primary care system in

the province that has never existed before. Every person in Ontario, every baby, every child, teenager, parent, adults, seniors will have a family doctor or nurse practitioner when they need one and can get ongoing, comprehensive and convenient care. If you move with in Ontario, you will automatically be offered a primary care team in your community, ensuring continuous access to

care close to home. You'll be welcomed at the door and there will be a team of amazing healthcare professionals working together to provide the high quality care that you deserve, ready for you when you and your loved ones need it at all stages of life. That's our shared vision and that is our commitment on this historic day. Thank you very much, Missipoku.