00:00The, as we've said, we're ready to sit down for those negotiations.
00:06We know what the major trade issues are for the United States.
00:11We have a series of issues around the strategic sectors, including the auto sector, the steel sector, aluminum,
00:17forest products, particularly now derivatives of copper and aluminum and steel.
00:25We, there are big opportunities for both of us if we can come to an agreement.
00:31It takes Americans to focus, and I'm sure once they're finished with their discussions with China, they'll focus.
00:37The World Cup is coming.
00:39It is.
00:39And there are people in Vancouver who are very concerned that that could be some of the last soccer games
00:43they see at BC Place,
00:44with the potential for the Whitecaps to relocate to Las Vegas.
00:47What has your government done to make sure that doesn't happen?
00:49And have you been involved in any way in those negotiations?
00:53The short answer, I have not been involved.
00:55Yes, the World Cup is coming.
00:57Yes, we are looking forward to it.
00:58Yes, anyone internationally watching this, there are three hosts of the World Cup,
01:04and I've got to say, the warmest welcome is going to be in Canada.
01:07And so we look forward to you coming here and very much looking forward to it.
01:12I hope Alphonso Davies is recovering as we speak.
01:17But we've got a great side, and we're going to move forward with that.
01:20Look, in terms of the Whitecaps specifically, I'm not personally involved in that.
01:25I would obviously like them to stay, but I don't have anything to say on that at this point.
01:29Thank you, Mr. That concludes today's press conference.
01:31I'll take one last.
01:32Sorry.
01:33Thanks very much.
01:34Alex Balingo, the Toronto Star.
01:36Just going back to Najoud's question, I think he said update to the targets and due course.
01:40Can you just expand on that?
01:41Due course is due course, Alex.
01:43But we're changing our climate.
01:45No, one always, no, no, no, that's not what I said.
01:48What we are doing, and let's be clear, and this is the approach of this government, is
01:54we are focused on investing to get results.
01:58We're focused on practical steps that are going to get results.
02:02It doesn't do us good to be sitting in court all the time with provinces.
02:06It doesn't do us good to be talking past each other.
02:10What it does do us good is to come together, specific projects, you know, in the end, this
02:17is not, these aren't words on a page.
02:19This is Russ, this is Sean, this is Frank and Francis and their colleagues going out and
02:26building things, connecting things, making progress.
02:30That's what we're focused on.
02:32That's what's going to deliver the results.
02:34What you're seeing today is the next iteration of a strategy that's all connected.
02:39It's connected, starts, you know, with the workers to make it work.
02:45We know we need more workers, so we've got a strategy to do that, which we develop with
02:48the unions, we develop with the provinces we're putting into place.
02:52It means working with the provinces.
02:55This strategy is informed, not just by the personnel that we have in, although it sure
03:01does help to have the former CEO of Hydro-Québec part of developing that strategy.
03:07So not just the personnel that we have in government, but the fact that we've been working with
03:11provinces and utilities and the private sector on some of these big projects.
03:16Think about the Northwest Conservation Corridor in BC.
03:19That's a huge opportunity to make the system more efficient.
03:23Indigenous ownership, conservation area the size of Greece at the same time is all part
03:29of that strategy while we're making it.
03:30So, Alex, it's the emission reductions are the product of the actions, and the government
03:36is putting more focus on the actions, really rolling up the sleeves and making sure these
03:43are moving forward.
03:44And by doing so, it concentrates the mind on several things.
03:48One, what's holding up, projects moving forward.
03:54I gave you the example of Contrecoeur, bouncing around for 40 years, now it's moving forward.
04:00Mackenzie Valley, bouncing around for 60 years, 61 years, I guess maybe I became sentient or
04:06whatever at three or four, but I've literally been talking about it since then.
04:11That's pretty bad when your earliest childhood memory is the Mackenzie Valley Highway, but
04:15there you go.
04:17So, really moving forward, and also the fact that we're focused on the here and now means
04:23that we think about affordability all the time.
04:27So, how do we do this in a way that's going to be affordable for Canadians?
04:32Because that's what they deserve, and we think we have a variety of things.
04:36I'm going to end on this just to reinforce.
04:40I say it's all connected, but how do we make it affordable?
04:43We make it affordable by linking together as many of the grids as possible, east, west,
04:48north.
04:49Huge efficiencies that come from that.
04:51We make it affordable through a series of financing mechanisms that the federal government
04:56can provide and complement to the provinces and others.
04:59In effect, what those do is spread costs over a long period of time, so it's not all borne
05:04by ratepayers today.
05:05We make it affordable by using a wide range of energy sources from different parts.
05:13We've talked a bit about gas today.
05:15More than it merits in terms of the overall contribution, but it is part of the way that
05:21we unlock affordably these bigger clean energy.
05:25And we make it affordable by making it affordable and possible for Canadians to save energy.
05:32I mean, we have 7 million Canadians, right, households who have some form of, in the extreme energy
05:42poverty or energy pressure, and, you know, they're using home heating oil, they're using propane,
05:49they're using baseboard heating, they don't have access.
05:52We're working for a million of those homes through a new retrofit program, and we're working
05:58to build out these grids in a clean way that's going to get affordability down in that $15 billion
06:04the savings.
06:05On the industrial carbon price.
06:07Did you catch that?
06:08That's my last comment.
06:10Thank you very much.
06:11Thank you, Prime Minister.
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