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Strength in numbers: 3 provinces sign MOU to build pipelines and expand trade corridors
Jul 22, 2025
Today we're signing a Memorandum of Understanding that makes Saskatchewan an official signatory and partner as we work together on building oil and gas pipelines and expanding trade corridors to global markets. This agreement will see our three provinces advanced pipelines and pathways to boost exports of homegrown energy, potash, critical minerals and agricultural products to markets across Canada and across the world.
And when it comes to advancing these goals, it's undeniable that there is strength in numbers.
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Today marks an important step forward in uniting our country as Saskatchewan jumps on board with Alberta and Ontario
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to pursue our shared goals of economic growth, opportunity, and prosperity. Today, we're signing a memorandum of
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understanding that makes Saskatchewan an official signator and partner as we work together on building oil and gas
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pipelines and expanding trade corridors to global markets. This agreement will see our three provinces advance
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pipelines and pathways to boost exports of homegrown energy, pod ash, critical minerals, and agricultural products to
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markets across Canada and across the world. And when it comes to advancing these goals, it's undeniable that there
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is strength in numbers. Together, we're taking an unprecedented step to further unify our efforts to get shovels in the
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ground on major projects across industries with uh one ultimate outcome in mind, connecting our worldclass
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resources and value added products to Canada's growing list of customers. Our three provinces will also continue our
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joint calls for the removal of federal barriers to nation building projects so we can collectively advance pipelines,
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rails, transmission, infrastructure, and other major projects. We know their strength in taking a united front, but
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we cannot achieve our shared provincial goals without cooperation from the federal government. Alberta knows this.
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Saskatchewan knows this. Ontario knows this. And it's time for the federal government to acknowledge it as well.
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And if Prime Minister Mark Carney doesn't want to work with us, it's not just myself and Scott Mo he'll have to
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worry about. He'll also have to contend with Premier Doug Ford, who has said many times he'll be all over him like an
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800lb gorilla. So, it's time to get rid of the bad laws that have harmed Canada's ability to grow the energy
1:32
sector and other industries such as mining and manufacturing. By now, you should all know these bad laws that I
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speak of quite well. Bill C69, the oil and gas emissions cap, the tanker ban, the net zero vehicle, and net zero
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electricity mandates. Removing these anti-resource anti-development laws will allow Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario
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to attract the investment and project partners we need to get shovels in the ground, grow industries, and create
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jobs. So, I'm excited to continue collaborating so that we can reach our shared goals, including to advance
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pipelines and responsible energy development. This new way of working together across provincial borders will
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benefit the people of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario, and ultimately all people across Canada. And
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I'm hopeful that today's momentum continues to build and leads leads to even more provinces and territories
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joining us. Thank you. And I'll I'll hand it over to Premier Scott Mo.
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I would just say thank you uh to Danielle and I could really just say ditto and sit down and that uh might be
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uh you know about as strong a statement as as I could make but uh but also thank you to Premier Ford for hosting us here
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in uh in Ontario as we uh find our way through our Council of Federation meeting uh this year. I think an
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important uh year for the Council of Federation to come together along with Prime Minister Carney uh later today.
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Um, and I'm pleased to join uh in signing this memorandum of understanding. For far too long, uh, as
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Premier Smith has said, Canada's energy, our critical mineral sector, uh, whether it be our oil and gas sector, uh, all of
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our exporting industries have faced far too many bottlenecks in not only their production, but in limiting our ability
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to provide those products to nations around the world. Um and it is us coming together as provinces and we would very
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much hope to work alongside the the uh prime minister Carney and his government uh in changing that uh in enhancing uh
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Canada's opportunity to not only become uh the strongest economy in the G7 um
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but ensuring that we can achieve the aspirational goals that Prime Minister Carney has put forward of becoming a
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global energy superpower. uh in order to do that uh there we are going to have to make changes uh in the development of
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policies uh that we have in Canada and Premier Smith had named a number of them. Why does this matter to a province
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of Saskatchewan and why does this agreement building on many other agreements whether they be on free and
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fair interprovincial trade or whether they be on accessing all ports that we have available to us in Canada. Um why
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is this important? Uh it's important to Saskatchewan because we do uh produce a number of products uh pot ash oil and
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gas agricultural products of course uranium uh but also now moving into
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additional copper, helium uh lithium uh and rare earth elements and many other uh products as well that are going to
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need access to even more countries around the world. More export options. more export options so that we can find
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these products can find their way to those countries around the world so that we can be part of their food security, part of their energy security. Um, yes,
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Canada can be part of global manufacturing security. Um, and ultimately providing Canadians with
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economic security, which is uh the goal uh most certainly and has been the goal of our government for some period of
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time. And so any and all options when it comes to how do we provide the world with these opportunities uh are very
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much supported by our by our province in Saskatchewan. And I thank uh both Premier Smith of Alberta and Premier
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Ford of Ontario uh for moving yet another positive step and a positive initiative forward uh in us finding a
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way not only to produce more of the products that are providing that energy, food and manufacturing security for
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Canadians, for North Americans, and for other global countries, but for finding additional ways for us to uh provide uh
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that global energy, food, and manufacturing security to the world. Thank you both, and I'm pleased to sign
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this uh supportive document today. That's great.
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[Music] Well, good morning everyone and uh such a pleasure to be joined by my good
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friends uh Premier Scott Mo and Premier Danielle Smith. This is an amazing day for our province
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and for our entire country because when Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan come
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together, we're not just signing a piece of paper. We're sending a clear message.
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Canada is ready to build and we're going to get it done as one team Canada. For
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too long, we've seen projects after project get tied up in red tape,
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regulation, delayed, blocked, and then cancelled.
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But today, the world needs what Canada has. It's time to think big. It's time
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to bring our critical minerals, our oil, our natural gas and energy to new
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markets across the globe. It started earlier this month when I visited
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Premier Smith during the Calgary Stampede and what a great host uh Premier Smith was. And boy, you had
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quite the party. Is the party still going on? We we signed an agreement to work hand
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in hand to build new energy and trade infrastructure. And today, Saskatchewan
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is stepping up. Premier Mo has offered his full support, and that's a gamecher.
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Let me tell you our plan. This new agreement will help move Western oil and gas to new and existing refineries in
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southern Ontario and to Northern Tidewater with Deep Sea Port in James
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Bay. It will connect Ontario's critical minerals in the Ring of Fire region to
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new ports in Western Canada, helping to build a true end to end critical mineral
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supply chain. All of it will be built using great Ontario made and
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Saskatchewanmade steel, creating jobs, attracting investment, and unlocking the
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full potential of our economy. And all of it will be done in partnership with
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indigenous communities. Canada's premers are stepping up. Now, we need the
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federal government to do its part. We need the federal government to fix its
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broken regulatory environment and streamline approvals. And I agree 100%
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without listing them all. We're all in agreement what Premier Smith said. If we
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don't get rid of these these uh regulations, uh things won't fly. But we
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need to do that and and hopefully we'll convince the prime minister to do the same thing. There's no more time to
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waste. We're focused on a future for all Canadians where we stand united, take control of
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our own destiny, and build prosperity the likes of which we've never seen before. I want to thank both premers for
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coming here to Huntsville and signing this agreement and may God bless the people of Canada. Thank you.
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So he has a whole system where you sort of start writing and then you look up and take the picture.
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Okay everybody,
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thank you. It's perfect.
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Guys, thank you.
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Absolutely. [Applause] Perfect.
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Thank you.
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[Music] Yeah. We will now take start taking questions from the media. As a friendly
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reminder, the format today will be one question. Please state your name and your outlet before your question.
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Can move up to the podium.
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Yes,
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I'm standing in your spot. You can go to the mic. Premier Peter Zamay from CBC News. Um,
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this is a question for all of you. Um, you've spoken a lot about using um getting our resources to other markets.
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Uh, but as Daniel Smith pointed out, um, our oil currently runs through the United States to Ontario. Michigan
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threatened to cut that off a couple years ago. Trump could cut it off for political reasons. Do we need to build a pipeline from Alberta to Ontario on
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Canadian soil regardless of whether there's a proponent or not for national security reasons?
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Well, I I believe so. Uh my good friend, the governor of Michigan, and she known
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her from day one, constantly threatens to cut off Line Five. that would
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basically shut down our airport, shut down big part of uh of Ontario and we
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can't chance it any longer. We need to be independent. We need a pipeline uh
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going to southwestern Ontario uh to one of the refineries and be self-reliant.
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We can't rely on the Americans anymore. As simple as that. I love the Americans, by the way. I love the people. Um love
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the elected officials except one. And uh that's that's it. So yes, we we have we
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have to start diversifying our trade around the the globe and uh as Premier
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Smith and Premier Mo uh said, we we have to be leaders in the G7 when it comes to
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our economy and we need to unleash every tool in our Canadian toolbox and uh tell
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the world that Canada's open for business. We need to cut the red tape regulations and regulatory burden that
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we're we're facing and I'm confident working with the federal government and the prime minister uh we'll do exactly
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that. I'll pass it over to the other premers. I I would just uh say very quickly uh
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there's really two conversations there and you've hit at the the the continental or Canadian energy security
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one uh is the second. first as a as an oil producing region um and you know
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providing oil at the highest price possible. Uh the number one priority economically is for us in Western Canada
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to have access to the northwest coast. Uh that will shrink the differential that will provide additional egress
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capacity into the US. Some of that does come yes back up into Canada. uh but to the oil industry uh from a economic
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perspective that is the priority as a Canadian uh and as uh ensuring and
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valuing and wanting and desiring us to have Canadian energy security and to yes be part of a North American uh energy
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security plan. Uh but as a Canadian and valuing our Canadian energy security uh we certainly uh need to have Canadian
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access through a line uh to the refineries in Eastern Canada. And I think that would be important to those that live in central and eastern Canada
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as well. Uh so that we have that energy security as a country. And I would just point out uh and Premier Smith will have
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much more to say on this as the largest oil producing province in Canada by a a
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great uh a great margin. Um I would point out the the comparison of what
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happened most recently in Eastern Europe uh when European countries uh learned uh that they have been entirely reliant uh
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for a significant amount of their their energy security on Russia. Uh not a country that today they want to be
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reliant on for that energy security and are looking to other options around the world including uh uranium from
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Saskatchewan and nuclear re reactors from North America. uh we shouldn't allow that to happen to us as Canadians
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to be reliant on another country whether it be for the production of our energy or whether it be for accessing that
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energy through uh rail lines, pipelines. Um nor should we uh in any way be reliant on um foreign ports uh for us uh
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to provide that energy security uh and that opportunity to the world as well. Um, so yes, uh, I think as Canadians,
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uh, we most certainly need to have a very mature discussion about how we can provide Western Canadian oil and gas,
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uh, to Canadians that live in central and eastern Canada for our own good, uh, looking forward uh, generations and for
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our own not only economic security, but ultimately our general security and our energy security moving forward.
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I've said that I'm supportive of pipelines northeast and west. I'd like to see all of them built. Uh to Scott's
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point, clearly if we're opening up new markets, our best opportunity is to build a pipeline to the Northwest BC
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coast in order to access the Asian markets. But uh it it should give us
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pause that we u in Eastern Canada are overly reliant on oil that either has to
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come by way of the United States or has to be shipped in from overseas. And so uh we could have uh addressed that years
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ago with the Energy East pipeline. Energy East is now no longer an option that's available to us because those
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pipelines are now full of gas. But if we can begin by creating um a pipeline option that will at least help us to get
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to Ontario so that we can uh satisfy the needs of this market. I think that that'll give energy security to the country. And that's probably something
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that's long overdue. We we probably should have done it decades ago, but um uh we didn't do it decades ago, but now
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we can do it now. And I hope uh we'll be able to do that. Good morning, Premier. Kate McKenna from
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CBC. This this too is for all of you. I'm wondering what you heard from Mark Carney last night and what you hope to
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hear from him today. What I've heard consistently from Mark Carney is that he wants Canada to have
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energy dominance and be an energy superpower and that he wants us to diversify our markets. Uh starting with
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u doing more trade with each other. That's what theou is about today is how can we find a way to support each other
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and then in addition to that find a way to to to get to new markets. That's the the only way I think that Canada will be
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able to have the the security, the energy security we're looking for. And it's not just energy. Once we have those
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roots that are established and we can build out rail line and port infrastructure, that's great for food
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export, for fiber export, for manufactured goods export. So, those are the things that I I think that uh the
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provinces are taking the leadership on, and I everything I've heard from Mark Carney seems to suggest he's supportive of that. uh he would demonstrate his his
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great support if he would repeal or substantially revise the nine bad laws that are impacting our investment
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climate. He hasn't done that yet, but as I've said, we're giving him some time to get into the role. He's got a new
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legislative session starting up in September, and we'll have a a better idea of of what kind of revisions he's
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going to make then. Well, I know uh Prime Minister Carney,
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he wants to be one of the strongest economies in the G7, which we're confident we can do. But as Premier
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Smith said, we have to get rid of the regulatory burdens. That's what's holding us back. And when we uh do that,
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we can unleash the economic powerhouse Canada truly is. Diversify our trade, uh
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build pipelines west, east, south, north, and uh get critical minerals out
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of the ground. not in 15 years, but within two two years, get permitting happening a lot quicker. Uh that's
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that's what's going to uh make sure that we're an economic powerhouse, build large infrastructure projects across the
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the country as well. But we'll have a further discussion with Prime Minister Carney today and uh we'll get into it a
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little deeper uh at the table. And I would just focus in on three
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points uh with the prime minister of which uh I think he is uh you know off to a good start uh with
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respect to. First is uh the regulatory process that both Premier Smith and Premier Ford have mentioned is flawed in
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in in Canada. Uh and I think that is recognized by most members at the federal level as they've passed C5 which
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is essentially a a piece of legislation that is there to uh to circumvent a lot of the time frames that are involved and
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the uncertainty uh that are involved in the current regulatory process that we have. And it's important for us uh to
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work alongside the federal government as provinces uh to actually correct the root of the problem which is the
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multi-layered um well nine bad laws as Premier Smith has mentioned but many
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others. Those are the nine uh priority uh pieces of legislation and regulation that need to be changed. Second is what
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we're discussing here today is, you know, how do we increase uh port access and access to the world for Canadian
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products and uh and we're supportive of any and all uh additional port capacity that we can uh that we can find and work
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together on uh on expediting uh in Canada. And then last but not least is
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market access. And in a world where you know there's much talk about tariffs and much talk about uh counter tariffs uh
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not just with the US but with other countries. China is a one of note for uh Saskatchewan and Alberta and and Ontario
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products as well uh in the uh in the agricultural sphere. Uh Prime Minister Carney has been you know I I think as uh
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as engaging as as as we could hope certainly is engaging with the president I would say to a higher level than what
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we saw a number of months ago. uh and also uh with conversations that that I've had with Prime Minister Carney with
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respect to some of the counter tariffs from from uh China uh as uh as a result
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of us as Canadians aligning with US trade policy when it comes to approaching uh China. Uh there is a a
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price to pay for that and and all too often that lands on Saskatchewan and Canadian agricultural uh products. Uh
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but Prime Minister Carney has been very uh engaging in reaching out and uh starting that conversation with China on
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how do we move forward not only uh when it comes to canola tariffs and pulse tariffs, pork tariffs and seafood
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tariffs, but more broadly uh in our our our trade uh conversation with a country
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like China. And if we are going to in any way as we produce more and make it available to the world uh diversify in
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any way that additional product uh production away from from the US uh we
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are going to have to deal with growing markets like China like India uh and other markets around the world.
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Hi Mickey here with um Politico. This question is for Smith and Ford. Um I was
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speaking with John Katamatides um regarding the ostrich situation in
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BC. He had a meeting yesterday with RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz on this matter. Um he
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essentially wants the PM to intervene in the case and he said that he's spoken to both of you on this issue as well. Will
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you be applying pressure to the PM on this? And do either of you have any issues or any concerns about the federal
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government's treatment of farmers, particularly in this case? Well, I have asked my agriculture
20:58
minister to look into it to see if we had a similar situation in Alberta, what
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would we be able to do differently? And um one of the things that I I think is worth looking at is when aven flu went
21:11
through that herd, it did kill 20% of them, but it didn't kill 80% of them. So maybe there is something to learn from
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whether there's a an immunity or some kind of vaccine that could be developed as a result of having um that flock
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survive. I think that um maybe we have to think about different ways to to do
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um animal um husbandry and animal safety and why not try a different approach.
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So, I I'm open-minded to see if uh if there's any uh persuasion on that. I I
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gather that the US government is interested in partnering with BC if they wanted to do that. I'd be supportive of that because I you can see that this uh
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case has really taken on um a lot of um public sentiment behind it. And if we can find a better way than doing mass
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coolls in any situation like this, I I think it's probably worth it to try to find a better way to do it. I don't know
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if you've got a thought. Yeah. No, I've I've talked to John many times about these ostriches. I'm an
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animal lover, full disclosure, and I want to do everything I I can to help him. Um, I think he had a plan to bring
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him down to Florida as well, to a sanctuary down there. So, anything John
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needs, I'm always there to to support him. He's a good man. He cares for animals and uh he puts his money where
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his mouth is, too, when it comes to uh making sure that he protects uh all animals.
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So, thank you. Hi there, uh, Michael Sarabi with CPAC.
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Uh, the question is actually for you, Premier Ford, and I appreciate today's announcement has to do with pipelines
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and energy corridors, but given that amongst the regulations being pointed out is the EV mandate. What does today's
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announcement, how does that affect your past enthusiasm to develop battery plants in Ontario as well as have EVs
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uh, manufactured in Ontario? Well, I always believe I'm a big proponent of the the market dictates. Uh the market
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will dictate, not governments will dictate. Uh we have to get rid of these mandates that companies won't be able to
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meet their targets. Um and let's let's continue investing. I'm I'm confident
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that uh eventually uh the EV sector per se uh will will continue growing, but
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right now uh the people are going to decide. But let's not slow down on on
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building the the battery plants and any other EV plants, but who knows us the best, but the auto sector, and they'll
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they'll determine that. But we're going to continue investing in the in the market itself.
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I'll just I'll just add a couple things. Uh I think Doug produces 1.2 million cars and can Canadians buy about 1.2
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million cars. So we've as a province taken the leadership in saying we're going to prioritize fleet vehicles that
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are made and finished in Ontario and there's some great options. There's light duty vehicles, heavy duty
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vehicles, there's hybrid vehicles and so uh we would hope that others would look at it in the in the same way that if the
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Americans are going to take a hostile approach, I guess our auto industry, I think it's up to us to to be supportive.
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When it comes to electric vehicles, we only have a very small percentage of electric vehicles that have been purchased in Alberta. And as I
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mentioned, if we were to to try to meet the mandate in Alberta alone, we'd have to buy all of the low emissions vehicles
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currently being produced in Ontario, which is impossible for the entire country to achieve, which means that
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this policy is forcing us to look outside of supporting for Ontario in order to be able to achieve it. And I
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guess the last thing I'd say is that um we we think that we're trying to build our hydrogen economy in Alberta. We
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bought u the Edmonton International Airport bought a 100 Toyota Mis which
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are is the passenger vehicle. We're doing a dual fuel um a pilot with the trucking industry. Uh CP is building
24:55
hydrogen locomotives in our province. We have uh hydrogen for home heating hydrogen as well that we're looking for
25:02
electricity. But I would love to see the Ontario manufacturers figure out a way that we could perhaps have an hydrogen
25:08
combustion engine. I know Toyota is made here. And then that may be a way for us to reach zero emissions targets a
25:15
different way. I think I think that we have to allow the market and innovators to be able to meet the needs of of each
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individual marketplace. And so I'm hoping we can have a really constructive conversation with Ontario about that now. I've begun it as well with uh with
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individuals with Toyota who've been who've been in our province. And and and so let's just have a little more latitude to allow for the market to work
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and innovation to work. That's what I would say. And I think we can all benefit from that. And I'd maybe speak a little bit on
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that. Uh as Doug said or Premier Ford, pardon me, said the um you know, the market will drive this. And I I think
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we're seeing that as well. And and um we shouldn't forget about just how integrated our our economy is uh in
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interprovinially um but also across North America. And this is maybe something for us to remember as we uh
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engage with uh the Trump administration and the current US administration. But we are very very integrated.
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reintegrated for a reason because it's the most efficient to produce things. We had a steak yesterday. Um like that
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animal is likely born in Saskatchewan, finished in Alberta, and is now sold by an Ontario ger out here. Uh that that's
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how integrated our our Canadian economy is on every front. Um when it comes to
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uh manufacturing, whether they be e vehicles, gas powered vehicles, whatever that is, uh you're going to see that largely happening in Ontario from a
26:30
Canadian perspective. Um but as we move to EVs uh there is also further
26:35
integration that is occurring there. There's rare earths uh critical minerals that are going to come from Quebec, the
26:41
ring of fire in Ontario, but also from Western Canada as well. We've opened a a processing facility for rare earths of
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which there's much interest around the world that would ultimately in the future build the battery elements for uh
26:52
just such vehicles as the market determines uh the the outbuild of that. And so, you know, I I think often we get
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um you know, thoughts that, you know, this is largely an impact only to Ontario, but we are so very integrated
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across our provinces, whether it's in our food production, whether it's in our energy uh security and and what we
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provide to other Canadians, which was in a former question. Um or or more generally in our our economy. Uh when
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one decision is made in one part of the country, it often has a ripple effect in other areas whether we recognize it or
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not. Uh, Clark Hypoel from your TV coach go news in North Bay. My question is for
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Premier Doug Ford. Uh, can you be more specific regarding quote regulatory
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burdens and quote bad laws that you're referring to that you want changed at the federal level? Well, I'm going to hand it over to
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Danielle. She has it memorized. I don't have it memorized. So, let it roll, Danielle.
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Sure. Happy to go happy to go through them. Um, I've got a I've got a little cheat sheet right here in my in my notes
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so that uh I always have them on hand. So, first of all, C69, we call that the
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no more pipeline bill. That that needs to obviously have some substantial rewrite. And I think that that's what
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the 2-year to yes policy recognizes is that has been a barrier to getting big
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projects built. That's one, the emissions cap. You can't we're not going to be able to fill a new pipeline if
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we're capping emissions, which means capping production. the if with the aggressive targets, we would have to
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curtail production 2 million barrels a day by 2030. That's got to go. Uh carbon pricing, we want that to stay
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provincial. We have a $95 carbon price. Other provinces have made different choices uh for different reasons, but we
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want that to be uh provincial. We don't want them to take over carbon pricing. The clean electricity rags, I can tell
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you we have 17,000 megawatts of demand for EI data centers in our province. The
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only way we're going to build them is if we can build natural gas power plants. That won't happen if uh if officials or
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if uh company executives are going to go to jail in 2035 for not having met emissions reduction targets that are
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overly aggressive. Tankerb again, if you can't uh put something on a ship, there's no point in building a pipeline
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to the coast. So, that's got to go. Uh the declaration of plastics is toxic. We have an integrated market back and forth
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between the US and Canada on plastics. if you're having to handle it like it's hazardous material adds a bunch bunch of
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additional regulation plus the federal government's partnered with us on a net zero uh petrochemical plant in on in
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Alberta. So it's chaotic policy to support and subsidize on the one hand and then try to ban it on the other net
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zero vehicle mandate. We've discussed that and then censorship of bill C59. uh
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what we're hearing I mean if an industry is not able to talk about their genuine emissions reductions efforts without
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facing criminal charges for greenwashing uh then then we're kind of missing the point of the exercise and the last one
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is we don't want to see export taxes on energy or export restrictions for the reasons that we've been talking about as
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well that the Americans have a bigger hammer if they cut off bill uh line five not only does that harm Ontario it also
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harms Quebec and so we do need to find other routes but in the meantime we we shouldn't be talking about uh about
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energy restrictions because I think there's that it would have a devastating impact on Alberta. So those are on
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Canada. Those are the nine. Well, what I did uh would recommend to the federal government and I have
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mentioned it uh create a ministry of red tape and regulations. We did that and we saved through sectors coming to us about
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unnecessary uh regulations that are duplicated between the provinces and the federal
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government. We found over $1.1 billion of uh savings and over a million uh
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people working hours. So that that's a big that's a big chunk.
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Okay. Premier Ford, stay there. Yeah. Rob Rob Ferguson, Toronto Star. Uh I saw
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you nodding when Premier Smith was saying no export taxes. So does this mean that your uh that electricity sir
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tax you uh had briefly imposed that idea is completely dead? And what's your new
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bottom line now that um it it appears uh apparent that it's going to be
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impossible to avoid some tariffs? Well, everything's on the table. I I like agreeing with uh Premier Smith.
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We're like mind. All three of us are are like-minded. And uh so when I'm nodding my head, I'm
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I'm agreeing. But on the export uh tax on electricity, everything's on the table. And we'll see how this uh deal
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goes. and we'll see what he has to say on August the 1st. Most importantly, we have to stay united and uh just
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strengthening our trade with other countries right around the world. I think we have was a 51 57 tariff-free
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agreements uh with other countries. We got to take advantage of that and and look at uh other markets. So, that's
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that's what we're going to uh do. And I also agree with Premier uh Mo uh let's
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look at other markets uh big markets out there that can compete against uh the
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US. But again uh wouldn't it be great if we can just have a fair and free trade
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deal with the United States and keep moving forward? I always mention we we
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buy more pro Canada buys more products off the US than China, Japan, Korea, UK
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and and France combined. So, we don't need to take a backseat to anyone and we sure the heck don't have to take a
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backseat to President Trump. Thank you. You can you can just stay there again, Premier. Okay. Thank you.
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Uh Jack Howen from the Trillium. Hi, Jack. Yesterday after the uh after the meeting with the indigenous leaders, you said uh
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you can't move forward without their collaboration and their buyin. Yes. And I can't do something if they don't want to do it.
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Grand Chief Alvin Fidler said he hoped we were recording those comments. Uh, and we were because some might take that
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as granting First Nations veto power over projects. So, I guess my question
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is how much did you mean that? I just want to work in collaboration. What we're trying to do, and they they they know this that we're trying to make
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their lives better. We're trying to make their kids and their grandchildren's lives better. No one is treating them better. No one's ever put $3 billion in
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the window uh to to say, "Here, let's let's be part of this deal." and uh $70
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million of training, $10 million of scholarships. We're we're we're working well together and uh you know, I've I've
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known Alvin from from day one. He's he's he's a good person. But uh I can assure
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you I'm getting endless calls from chiefs from around the province saying, "I want to be part of this. I want to be
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part of the economic uh zones." And those who want it, we're going to work
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with them. Those who don't, well, they're going to lose out. Simple as that. You can't I can't force anyone to
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come to the table. Isaac Ken, Global News, you can stay there again. Bring your um on Quebec,
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both on thisou and on the interprovincial trade. Is Quebec on board with what you want to do with
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pipelines and what's taking so long in terms of getting Fonolo to sign up to an interprovincial tradeou with Ontario?
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What's the barrier? Well, we've we've had the opportunity to sign 10US with the territories and uh and all the
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provinces to the exception of Quebec and uh Newfoundland, but I I think we'll get there. Uh you know, Premier Lgo is a
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very bright uh businessminded person and you know, we'll we'll get there. He's uh
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they're unique, but we'll we'll get around to getting it done. I love him. I do. But
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yeah, that's important. But I I think uh we'll we'll have a chat with them, all three of us. We'll see what happens. All
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it does is benefit uh Quebecers. That's what it does. It brings jobs and opportunities to them. So, it's a good
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thing. This will be the last question. Hello, Laura Stone, Globe and Mail.
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Premier Smith, I want to ask again about this online campaign targeting one of our reporters. You said yesterday that
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you don't know David Wallace, but your official ex account has watched his videos before. So, um, has anyone in
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your government ever used his services and how did you come to know him? Uh, we're in Ontario to work on some
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pretty important issues like the threat of tariffs and, uh, we met with the nurses this morning, went with First
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Nations yesterday, and we're talking with the prime minister about how we're going to get national projects built.
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I've given you a statement. I did an interview with CTV. I'd direct you to that. I have no further comment on it.
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That concludes our press conference. Thank you very much. Thanks everyone.
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