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Health Canada has sidestepped detailed parliamentary questions about the manufacturing oversight of the plasmid DNA template used in the modified RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines, prompting renewed criticism over the depth of regulatory scrutiny applied to these novel products.
Health Canada EXPOSED After Hiding Vaccine Manufacturing Secrets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv-eySq12mU
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Health
Canada has buried explosive questions about the DNA blueprint of the
COVID modified RNA shots, proving safe and effective was marketing all
along.
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Every single vaccine available in Canada has been approved by Health Canada.
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Anyone
who questioned anything related to the government's handling of CO any
level of government got smeared, bullied, and cancelled.
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Conservative
MP Ted Faulk asked who made the plasma DNA, who cut it open, and
checked for purity. Were any facilities inspected? Did they test for
residual
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DNA and the SV40 promoter? Health Canada's answer, complete evasion. Just trust us. We authorized it. Canadians
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paid $9 billion last year for this federal department and they outsource your safety to Fizer and Madna. Let's dig in.
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For
years, I've been following Health Canada's handling of these modified
RNA CO9 shots. As I've shown multiple times before, safe and effective
is just a
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marketing
mantra. And today, we have fresh proof that when it comes to real
accountability on the manufacturing process, especially the plasmid DNA
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template, that's the very starting material for these shots. Health Canada doesn't just dodge questions around it.
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They refuse outright to answer anything at all. An order paper question, which is an official parliamentary request,
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was
filed with very specific, very technical questions. essentially asking
Health Canada to detail the entire chain of how the DNA starting
material for the
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modified RNA co vaccines was made, tested, regulated, and monitored from the earliest manufacturing stage through
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to any potential quality problems after release. Conservative MP Ted Faulk asks who made the DNA starting material,
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including
which facilities and companies were responsible for manufacturing the
plasma DNA template. That's the DNA blueprint used to produce the COVID
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vaccine mRNA, including who cut and prepared that DNA through a process called linearization, where the circular
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plasmid DNA is cut into a linear form so it can be used as the template for mRNA production. And who performed quality
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control testing? Did Health Canada ever inspect those facilities? And if inspections happened, which facilities
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were
inspected when, by whom, and for what purpose? If inspections did not
happen, then why not? If you'd like to see more reports on this file and
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support this kind of journalism, please do so at nosheshots.ca. That's no moreshots.ca.
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What
quality control oversight was done either directly by Health Canada or
through information shared by foreign regulators regarding the DNA
template
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itself? the original plasmid source and any outsourced manufacturing were any manufacturing concerns or unresolved
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issues found by Health Canada such as deficiencies, unanswered questions or qualification problems related to the
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plasma DNA manufacturing process and if so, how were those issues resolved? The request goes on to question if Fiser and
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Madna
followed international standards and complied with international
biotechnology and gene therapy standards including international council
for
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harmonization of technical requirements for pharmaceuticals for human use called guidelines and United States Pharmacopia
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USP
standards related to residual DNA testing, genetic construct
characterization and viral safety controls. If those standards were not
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required, this query asks why. Were any manufacturing materials shared across companies or countries? Did Health
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Canada
know of any shared or outsourced master plasmid cell bank arrangements
essentially centralized DNA source stocks used across multiple
companies,
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facilities
or jurisdiction by Fiser, Madna or related entities? Lastly, were there
any problems with inadequate DNA processing, such as incomplete
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linearization, meaning cases where circular plasma DNA may not have been fully processed into the correct form
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during
manufacturing? And does Health Canada have any deviation reports,
corrective action plans, lot investigations, product complaints, or
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safety escalations connected to those issues in Fizer or Madna vaccine batches specifically. In plain language, the
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overall
direction of the request is to determine who controlled the DNA
manufacturing process, how closely Health Canada oversaw it, and whether
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international
quality standards were applied, whether regulators identified or
investigated any manufacturing irregularities involving residual or
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improperly
processed DNA. Those are straightforward questions about the
foundational building blocks of these novel products that I've explored
before
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with
experts like Kevin Mccernin, Maria Gucci, and David Speaker. But the
answers from Health Canada, they amount to little more than bureaucratic
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stonewalling.
As though they've done their regulatory due diligence, Health Canada
largely sidestepped the specifics on who actually manufactured and
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linearized
the plasma DNA templates, what inspections, if any, they conducted on
manufacturing facilities, and whether they verified compliance with key
and
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USP standards for residual DNA, genetic construct characterization, and viral safety. They leaned heavily on reliance
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on
foreign regulators and sponsor data from Fizer and Madna without
detailing independent Canadian oversight of the foundational DNA
starting material.
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Again,
that very blueprint for these modified RNA products. What's the point
of having a health agency with a mandate to regulate safety, efficacy,
and
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quality
of pharmaceuticals in Canada overseeing their pre-market approval,
clinical trials, and post-market surveillance under the banner of
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protecting public health. If on some of the most technically important manufacturing questions, it simply
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defers to foreign regulators and manufacturer provided asurances. Why did Canadians pay nearly $9 billion for this
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agency last year if it just outsources its mandate with such critical responsibilities left in the hands of
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others? Look, all of this tracks with what I've uncovered through exclusive investigation into these novel shots. Do
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you
remember when genomics expert Kevin Mccernin first flagged concerns
around these instability issues of these shots in 2022? I was there
talking to him. Dr.
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David Speaker's follow-up work on Ontario pharmacy vials confirmed elevated DNA fragments often larger than
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what
regulators claimed to be safe, including the SV40 elements, which were
only found in Fizer shots. Former regulatory specialist and pharmacist
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Maria
Gucci has been relentless in dissecting the manufacturing
inconsistencies, the switch from clean PCR, mRNA, in trials to
plasmid-based
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production
for mass rollout, and the downstream quality failures Health Canada
appears to have accepted without robust scrutiny. Health Canada has
known
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about these contamination signals for years, yet continued to authorize and endorse these products. They confirmed
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the undisclosed SV40 sequence presence when pressed about it, but downplayed and dismissed concerns about the risks
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posed. Dr. David Speaker, a verologist who was a team of independent scientists scrutinizing the contents of Fiser and
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Madna
vaccine vials, explained to me in October of 2023 that the residual DNA
and contaminants should have been purified out during manufacturing,
but
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they weren't. and he says that Health Canada hasn't even considered the risk this poses to human health.
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Also, double stranded DNA is known to cause an unwanted immune response.
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You've got a foreign sequence there. It is unwanted. Even if we bombard a cell
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with a low short DNA fragment size, it can cause
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severe effects and cellular intration, especially with SV40. It's a big risk
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which I don't think Health Canada has even considered yet. In Health Canada's response to this
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parliamentary query signed off by MP Maggie Kai, they offered no transparent accounting of master cell banks, shared
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plasmid
stocks, incomplete linearization deviations, or lot specific
investigations. Instead, we're handed the regulatory equivalent of,
"Trust us,
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we
checked." Because apparently authorization itself is now being
presented as proof that Health Canada did its due diligence. If a
product has
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been
authorized by Health Canada, it has been determined to be compliant
with the relevant regulations is the circular logic that they use. Not
one single
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facility is named. Not one inspection date or inspector was named. Not a single word on whether they ever checked
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that linearization process or residual DNA removal. They don't even admit whether inspections were done at all or
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why they weren't. They don't confirm or deny compliance with th those specific and USP standards the question asks
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about.
They don't say boo about deviation reports or incomplete linearization.
And still these aren't abstract technicalities. their core to
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whether this novel modified RNA technology was produced under proper controls or rushed out with hidden
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impurities that could drive integration risks, inflammation, as we've seen with myocarditis and the like, or worse. The
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experts
I've interviewed repeatedly over the last few years have laid out the
science. The parliamentary questions demanded the records. Once again,
Health
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Canada's non-answers just add to the mountain of evidence that safe and effective was marketing, not medicine.
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An ongoing evasion keeps the narrative alive and well. For Rebel News, I'm Tamar Ugalini.
Short Summary In this speech, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the widespread feeling of “loss of control” that is driving global politics — over cost of living, borders, technology, jobs, and security. He argues that old tools and nostalgia won’t fix it. Instead, the new progressive politics must be about building — physically, sustainably, inclusively, and digitally — to restore agency and create a country that is strong, fair, and good for all Canadians. He outlines concrete Canadian actions in housing, energy, trade, AI, worker training, immediate cost-of-living relief, and bold national projects, while emphasizing fiscal responsibility and shared prosperity through a new sovereign wealth fund.12 Key Points Carney Outlines (What He Wants to Do)
Name the problem plainly: Citizens feel a profound loss of control over everyday life (housing costs, borders, social media, jobs displaced by technology, and a more dangerous world). This fuels grievance politics that thrives on scarcity and division; it cannot be solved with yesterday’s tools or institutions.
Build affordable housing at unprecedented scale and speed: Create the new public agency Build Canada Homes to deliver deeply affordable and mixed-income housing. Use federal land, factory-built modular construction (Canadian lumber and workers), cut development charges in half, and reduce new-home taxes — delivering up to $200,000 in savings per home in places like Toronto.
Double the clean electricity grid in two decades: Make energy cleaner, more abundant, and affordable by linking provincial systems, using the federal AAA balance sheet to spread costs, reforming permitting, and embracing all technologies (renewables, nuclear, small modular reactors, hydro, carbon capture, geothermal, and some natural gas). Goal: electrify the economy and slash emissions affordably rather than pursuing purity in generation.
Shift from reliance to resilience in trade: Diversify away from over-dependence on the U.S. by pursuing deeper North American integration where possible (including “Fortress North America” options in key sectors) or building new global partnerships. Already signed 20 new economic/security agreements across five continents; on track for major deals with India, ASEAN, and Mercosur. Non-U.S. exports are rising sharply; foreign investment in Canada is at a 20-year high.
Meet and exceed NATO obligations while building strategic autonomy: Catalyze half a trillion dollars in defence, security, and resilience investment over the next decade. Develop sovereign capabilities in critical minerals, AI, space, cloud, clean energy, and vaccines through a “dense web” of value-based partnerships (e.g., G7 buyers’ club for minerals, AI pact with India/Australia, EU defence procurement).
Build sustainably, in solidarity with workers, and inclusively: Prioritize low-carbon homes, manufacturing, and trade corridors. Launch Team Canada Strong to train 100,000 new skilled tradespeople over five years with seamless education-to-job pathways. Ensure free, prior, and informed consent plus Indigenous ownership and benefits on major projects.
Develop safe, sovereign, and beneficial AI: Release a new national AI strategy focused on safety, economic opportunity, better public services, and Canadian content/voices. Pair it with modern online safety laws, sovereign compute capacity, and broad public access to training.
Deliver immediate affordability relief while protecting the social safety net: Cut middle-class taxes for 22 million Canadians, introduce a new groceries and essentials benefit (up to $1,800 for 12 million families), temporarily suspend the federal fuel tax, and maintain public health care, dental, pharmacare, and child care. Achieve this while reducing the deficit and operating spending growth from 8% to 2% per year.
Take big, bold risks again: Target $1 trillion in nation-building investment over the next five years. Draw inspiration from Canada’s history (post-WWII housing/universities, St. Lawrence Seaway, Expo 67, transcontinental railway) and from astronauts who say “persist and we will win.”
Give ordinary Canadians real agency and direct ownership: Introduce the Canada Strong Pass (cheap rail, free national parks/museums) to boost domestic tourism. Create the new Canada Strong Fund (sovereign wealth fund) that lets Canadians invest alongside the private sector and government in major projects (energy, ports, mines, tech, data centres) and share directly in the returns — unlike historical projects where all profits went to private owners.
Make building the new progressive politics: In a more uncertain and dangerous world, actual construction — concrete, steel, and code — is the answer. Progressives must build for all, not just demolish or pine for the old order.
Core message to Canadians: “It’s a more dangerous world. We have to take care of ourselves. And as Canadians, we will always take care of each other.” Build a country that is not just strong and prosperous, but good and fair — for all Canadians, all of the time.
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers remarks at the 2026 Global Progress Action Summit in Toronto. This day-long series of conversations and panel discussions is co-hosted by Canada 2020 and the Center for American Progress Action Fund
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All right. Thank you. Good afternoon. Uh that's Thank you, Tim. Thank you for I This is where I get to thank you for
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your
leadership and friendship. Tim is a friend. Didn't I before I was prime
minister, I wasn't his friend. Now I'm his friend. It's amazing. It's
amazing.
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But uh no, Tim uh and Susan Smith, Tom Pitfield, uh your leadership of Canada
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2020 over the years. Uh we first came Dina when we first came to Ottawa.
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God, 20 years ago. Um and uh you joined Canada 2020 and helped define the Canada
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we want in 2020. Yeah. Didn't include co didn't include a few things. Uh but much
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of that uh was built out and now we have an agenda going forward. Um let me um I'
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I'd like to uh I'd like to thank the organizers. I'd like to thank Global Progress. uh the Center for American
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Progress, which is part of global progress. Just to be clear, American progress is part of global uh progress.
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Johan, thank you. Tireless work uh energy. Uh I'm going to give a shout out
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uh I think appropriately to uh Matt Brown uh for his leadership over the years.
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I
mean this is a remarkable group of people that you brought together and
much of uh good of what has happened in the world has sprung from the
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individuals and the organizations around here. Um just uh before going into detail in my remarks and if you if you
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have
uh somewhere else to go and you understand French uh you can listen uh
for the next uh few sentences and uh and go off and enjoy uh Toronto.
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Canada, the novel infrastructure,
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the novel system.
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the voila
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the novel politic progressist now across
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all
our countries I think this is safe to say across all our countries the
same conversation is taking place at kitchen tables on factory floors
and chat rooms
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people feeling a loss of control it's a conversation that's been going on for a few years. Control or loss of control
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over their cost of living. Loss of control over who comes across their borders.
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Loss of control, we've just heard over what enters their social media feed.
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Control or loss thereof of a technology that may displace, destroy their jobs before it improves their lives.
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Control in a world that's more divided and dangerous by the day. And that loss of agency, control is the common thread
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through all our politics. Doesn't respect ideology, doesn't respect the old leftright map. And it has fed a
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politics of grievance, one that thrives on scarcity, feeds on division, and promises strength through demolition.
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And it won't be addressed by the old ways.
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And just as Marshall McLuhan, that's my necessary Canadian uh reference, Marshall McLuhan described 60 years ago,
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our age of anxiety is caused by trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. And I thought
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that was one of uh President Obama's main points last evening. A fascinating conversation um point that we need new
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institutions as much as reimagining the old ones. And that was part of my uh argument at Davos that the
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international rules-based order that we helped build together no longer works as it once claimed
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that
we cannot restore that which no longer holds. That nostalgia is not a
strategy. We have to take the sign down and build a new. So with this
context,
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what I want to do uh in my time is actually extend beyond my time. Um, sorry, just kidding. Don't worry. Um,
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what
I want to do is say a few words about what we're doing in Canada. And
I'm not going to claim that we have all the answers, not least because
we have a
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federal system and there are many fundamental roles of government,
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particularly in healthcare and education for which we're not directly uh responsible. Um, but even though given
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that and even though we're just getting started, I believe there are some of the broader lessons for all of us.
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So,
and part of that consistent with what I just said and said in Davos is
part of the way forward is to name plainly what's broken to say as
plainly
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as possible how we intend to replace it and then do the hard work of building. I'm going to provide a few examples.
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Housing is unaffordable in part because we haven't been building affordable housing. I mean, it's not a
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tautology.
literally have not been building in this country as Mike Moffett knows
we haven't built affordable housing for about 30 years as a class.
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So what we're doing, and it's not all the answer, but it's part of the answer,
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is
to look to build affordable housing on a scale and speed not seen in
generations. And by the way, if you haven't been building affordable
housing
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for
30 years, it's pretty easy to meet that bar. It's a low bar. We have a
higher bar than that. Um, but we're created a new public agency, Build
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Canada
Homes, that targets deeply affordable housing. That means transition
housing for homeless all the way up the continuum to mixed income
developments.
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Very importantly, variety of uh levers for that, including taking the very large federal land bank and making it
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available.
We're looking to double the pace of affordable housing construction
using factory technologies familiar to many of you from Europe using of
course Canadian lumber and Canadian workers.
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Cut
building times in half, reduce costs, and reduce embedded and operating
emissions each by 20%. We're also working with the provinces because
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there's
a housing crisis right now and municipalities to cut what are called
development charges. If you're Mike Moffett and you're in on his Twitter
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feed, you'll know what this means because he talks about it incessantly. quite rightly. Quite rightly, uh,
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development charges. We're working with them to cut those in half and to cut taxes on new home purchases.
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So, what does that mean? Translate that right here in Toronto, across Ontario,
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but here in Toronto, that is a savings now as I speak today on new homes of up to $200,000.
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That's affordability. Second example,
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the truth is that building energy systems that are cleaner, more abund more abundant and affordable won't just happen.
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And in Canada, we need to remind ourselves of that because we start from a very enviable position. We have the
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second lowest energy cost delivered on the retail side and for industrials in the OECD.
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More than 80% of the power generated in the country is zero emission.
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But like many others, we need to double the scale of that grid over the course of the next two decades. That will
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require massive investment, the linking of provincial systems. They're all islands. It'll require spreading the
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costs of that generation over time using our AAA balance sheet so that rateayers today who are being crushed by
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affordability concerns don't pay all the costs of those investments. Investments that will benefit all our citizens and
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all generations over time and the planet of course over decades.
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This is one of the big reasons why we have to do permitting reform, regulatory reform in Canada. It is an essential
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reason apart from fundamental reasons of justice why we need new partnerships with indigenous peoples. And we need a
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willingness, this can be sometimes hard to accept. We need a willingness to use all sources of energy including some gas
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and all technologies beyond conventional renewables certainly to nuclear, hydro, small
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modular reactors, carbon capture and geothermal.
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That combination will ensure reliability and affordability and dramatically slash emissions across the entire economy.
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That
is the point. That is the objective. And I'll just put some numbers on
this. You can't get away without some numbers from me. I'm sorry.
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Our
current grid, all of that generation across the country, largely clean,
emits just under 50 megat tons a year. The emissions of heavy industry,
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transportation, buildings in Canada is about 525 megat tons a year. The biggest prize
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is reducing emissions affordably through electrification rather than purity in generation.
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Third,
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we need to build new trade relationships in order to move from reliance to resilience.
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And it's truth that Canada has long benefit long benefited and we are very grateful. We have long benefit, we did
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say thank you. Thank you. Um long benefited from our proximity to the world's largest and the world's most
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dynamic economy. But as the US changes dramatically its policies, and that's the right of the United States, as it
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changes those policies, many of our former strengths have become our vulnerabilities.
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Now,
we still, to be clear, we still have the best trade deal with the
United States. Over 85% of our goods move tariff-free across the border.
But with
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American tariffs, so-called 232 or strategic tariffs on autos, steel,
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aluminum, forest products, I could go on, but in these so-called strategic areas, those are creating deep
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challenges for workers and firms in those industries. Industries that until now had been highly highly integrated
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with the United States to the benefit of America as well as Canada.
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And our response begins by reimagining aspects of North American integration.
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And to be absolutely clear, Canada, like Mexico,
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like Mexico, Canada remains open to deeper integration, including options for Fortress North America in selected
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sectors. And to be clear, those offers are on the table. But if that route is
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not ultimately possible, we will invest heavily in new markets and products.
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We'll reward those who build, buy, and produce in Canada, and we will build new partnerships abroad.
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We're already applying the main lessons of the past 18 months, that we must build our strategic autonomy.
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Now, that starts with meeting our NATO obligations. Meeting our NATO obligations. And it has to be said for
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the first time since the fall of the Berlin wall, we are in the process beyond that.
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Moving forward of catalyzing half a trillion dollars of investment in defense and security and resilience over the next decade.
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But
it means more than that. Building strategic autonomy means more than
defense and security. It means building new reliable partners abroad.
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Partnerships abroad. We've signed in the last year 20 new economic and security agreements across five continents.
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We're on track to conclude major trade agreements this year with India with Azan and Mercur.
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And the early results of this strategy are encouraging. Non US exports are up sharply. We're on track to double them
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this decade. Foreign investment in Canada is at its highest in two decades and it's running more than twice the
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rate adjusted for the size of our economy of all other G7 economies.
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And
we're making this progress. We're making this progress because Canada
is blessed with what the world wants. From energy to critical minerals,
from
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aerospace to AI, we're making this progress because we have the values to which much of the world aspires,
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including commitments to sustainability,
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the rule of law, the belief that openness brings strength and mutual benefit.
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And we're making this progress in part because we've recognized in some cases before others the degree to which in the
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new world sovereignty requires more than a country just being able to feed fuel and defend itself. As important as that
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is, it requires access to those critical minerals, to space-based communications, to sovereign cloud, AI, payment systems,
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clean energy, and vaccines. And all of that demands partnership. And there's no one-stop shop for that partnership. We
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need a variable geometry, a dense web of partnerships across those core strategic capabilities and issues drawing on
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common
values and interests because it's those common values and interests
that will assure alignment and respect to those agreements. So from the
coalition
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of the willing to support Ukraine where we're one of the largest per capita contributors to the G7's buyers club for
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critical minerals and our AI partnership with India and Australia for Canada. This also includes being the
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only non-European country to join safe the Europeans European Union's defense procurement initiative and it includes
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intensifying defense security and economic partnership with the Nordic countries.
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Now talking about building building partnerships building directly but I want to focus on what is just as
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important as that physical build which is how we build. how we build. We're focused on building sustainably because
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re reducing emissions is not just a moral duty, it's an economic imperative. So that means those lowcarbon homes,
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lowcarbon trade corridors, lowcarbon manufacturing, zero carbon energy.
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We're building in solidarity with workers. Our focus is on creating good union careers for electricians, welders,
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carpenters,
pipe fitters, the engineers who will build the homes, the ports, the
energy systems of this country. Two weeks ago, uh we just created
something
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called team Canada strong and it's a soup to nuts. It's not cradle to grave,
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but 15 to uh uh education to job, soup to nuts, uh approach to train up to
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100,000
new highly skilled trades people over the next 5 years, giving young
Canadians a seamless pathway from first job to skills training,
internships,
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qualifications, job uh placements in a country that will be building for decades. So this is a pathway to a
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career that we will pay for. We're building inclusively in close partnership with First Nations, Inuit and Matei.
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That means free prior and informed consent on major projects. It means financing indigenous ownership in those
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projects and significant economic benefit in their construction and operation.
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So when we're building physically, we're building inclusively, sustainably in solidarity.
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And
as this group has been talking about over the last 24 hours and living
uh in your day jobs, these same values must hold when we build
virtually.
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The question is whether AI will certainly will transform our our lives,
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but the question is whether it will improve the lives of all Canadians or benefit only some. Canadians want AI
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that's safe and sovereign. You just heard from Minister Solomon. AI that creates new economic opportunities,
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strengthens public services, improves our quality of life. and our AI strategy is about to come out. We'll seek to
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advance
those objectives with modern online safety laws. One of the advantages
of being late is we're taking the lessons uh from others including
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Jonathan uh heights uh advice that we just saw.
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We're
focused on secure government systems as others are, sovereign compute,
including with partners in Europe and and abroad. Broader access to
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AI, broad access to AI training and education, and education that represents Canadian voices, languagees, and cultures.
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Now, building big takes time, and people are feeling the pressures of everyday life, the affordability crisis right
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now.
So what we've been doing in parallel with this is giving Canadians a
boost today and a bridge to a better tomorrow. Our first act as
government
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was to cut a series of taxes, including middle class taxes for 22 million
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Canadians. The last few months, we've launched a new groceries and essential benefit worth up to $1,800 for Canadian
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families that affects 12 million Canadians most in need. Like many others, we've suspended a federal fuel
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tax uh for the course of this summer given the severe price increases
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and we've maintained our social safety net crucially and that's taken tough decisions. We're reinforcing the
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soundest fiscal position in the G7 so we can maintain those supports. And despite
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the tariff war and actual wars, we've reduced our deficit. We've reduced operating expending operating spending.
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So away from transfers to individuals,
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we've reduced that spending growth which had been running at 8% a year for 10 years.
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We've reduced that to 2%. We're including making difficult decisions,
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reducing 10% of the civil service and 20% of our spending on consultants. We're maintaining the lowest deficit,
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the lowest net debt to GDP ratio in the G7 while we reinforce our social safety net that includes public health care,
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public dental care, public pharmarmacare, public child care. Now,
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the final imperative I wanted to mention is perhaps the most difficult. Uh it's
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the most difficult given the extreme uncertainty and immediate pressures people are facing.
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It's this. We have to take risk,
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big risk. We have to take risks again because in a crisis, fortune favors the bold. And so what we're doing is to
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motivate
that risk takingaking, taking risks as government, but also drawing on
Canada's history, on examples, and giving people agency.
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History
is the easy bit. Canada was built by indigenous peoples, voyagers who
mapped this continent and built trading networks from coast to coast to
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coast before, with due respect, the Americans had even left St. Louis.
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Whenever we have something over the Americans, we're going to use it. I'm sorry. After the after the Second World War,
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Canadians built new neighborhoods for hundreds of thousands of returning veterans, new universities, the St.
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Lawrence Seaway, the TransCanada Highway, Expo 67, inspiring the world.
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The point is we used to build in this country and we're building again. Big,
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fast, bold. A trillion dollars of investment is our target over the course of the next 5 years.
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Second, we're drawing on examples. I can think of no better one. Um, by the way,
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if you ever want inspiration, in interview an astronaut. Um uh last month I had the uh the privilege of speaking
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to the crew of the Integrity and I asked Canada's I asked them I asked Canada's astronaut Jeremy Hansen uh about advice
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uh for Canadians and he advised us that we have to be willing to take
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risks.
This is a quote. We have to be willing to take risks. recognize that
there'll be setbacks, push through them because, in his words,
ultimately know
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that we are going to persist and we will win. Thirdly,
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giving people agency. This goes back to taking back control.
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So, in the tariff crisis, and I don't think it's an overstatement to call it a tariff crisis, the response of Canadians has
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been exceptional. Canadians have been keen to buy can do their bit effectively do their bit. Buy Canadian visit their
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country. So help make that happen. It's clear labeling. It means the government following their example with a by
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Canadian
policy which we now have. It means seemingly little things but
incredibly important things. Uh we introduced something called the
Canada
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Strong Pass which meant cheap rail travel for youth and families. Free visits to national parks, museums,
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exhibitions over the course of the summer. We extended over uh the holidays in the winter and now over this summer.
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Huge increase in domestic tourism and spending uh you know up to depending on how you measure it around 20% uh
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paralleled by about a 35% fall in crossber visits.
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means something else as well. We are in the early days of creating a sovereign wealth fund. Now, we're not short of
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capital
in this country. We're not short, as I mentioned earlier, of capital
that wants to come in and invest in this country. We are going to create
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a
tremendous amount of wealth in this country through these nation
building projects. That is going to benefit all Canadians. It's going to
benefit their children, bigger economy, better jobs.
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But we also think that Canadians should have a direct access to the wealth that's created. So when those ports get
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built, when that energy infrastructure gets built, when that critical mineral mine gets built,
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Canada, Canadians more specifically take a slice alongside the private sector.
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The
new Canada Strong Fund will invest in major ambitious Canadian projects
across energy, infrastructure, mining, agriculture, technology, data
centers,
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right alongside private investors. And so for the first time in our history,
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Canadians will benefit directly from those economic returns.
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You
know, I'll stop here and I'll just mention two other things. Um, one is
when we built the country, if you know your Canadian history, I
mentioned
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history
as a motivator. Um, one of the most iconic uh, projects was the
original national railway, Canadian Pacific Railway. Uh, which linked
the
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country
together at a time when our sovereignty was threatened uh, and we
needed to link British Columbia in the west to the provinces uh, in
central Canada in the east.
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The
federal government did many things to make that happen. It was the
right thing to do economically and for sovereignty. All of the returns
went to
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Lord
Strath Kona and well Lord mainly Lord Strathcona now that I think about
it because if you go across the country you'll see a lot of things
named after Strath Kona.
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It's going to be different this time.
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We're
going to share those benefits and we're going to allow Canadians if
they have a little bit of money to put it in alongside. They don't have
to,
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but
if they have a little bit of money they'll put it alongside. they'll
get the government of Canada return. Uh if they want to take it out in
the short term, they'll get the bigger return if
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they leave it in longer term. And I will tell you from going across the country,
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that's what Canadians want to do. They want to do their little bit to be part of the solution. Let me let me conclude
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and
this I'll tell you something. You know, I've probably told you
everything I've said. You you know, but uh you know, those whose
politics is to
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destroy, to demolish, dismantle, they're not going to change their instincts.
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This is many respects. This is this is their moment, right? Um we can't match them by being timid imitations of them.
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Uh we can't answer them by pining for an old order that's not going to return.
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And the loss of control that people feel that feeds our age of anxiety, it can only be answered only be answered by
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positive action by building that which comes next. you know, through the crack in the bell, as Leonard Cohen said, uh,
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through the rupture that the light gets in.
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In this more uncertain world, building for all, actual building, concrete,
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steel, and code is the new progressive politics.
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And
our message, our message to Canadians right from the start has been
reflecting back what we've heard. It's a more dangerous world. We have
to take
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care of ourselves. And as Canadians, we will always take care of each other.
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Building a country that's not just strong, but good. Not just prosperous,
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but fair. Not just for some most of the time, but for all Canadians all of the time.
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Thank you very much. Thank you for your commitment to Canada. Thank you for letting me this time. Thank you.