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i recognize the leader of his majesty's
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thank you speaker good morning everybody
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uh speaker this question is for the
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premier uh nearly 3 months after an
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election about defending Ontario jobs
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and our economy and working people are
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still waiting for relief for reassurance
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and for results from this government but
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since the election all we've seen are
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thousands of layoffs uh Trump targeting
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our auto jobs instead of protecting
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those jobs though we're seeing equipment
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uh being moved out of our communities
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and across the border and the
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government's EV strategy is just coming
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apart in real time so my question to the
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premier is what are you going to do
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it response i recognize the Minister of
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Economic Development Job Creation and
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you know speaker more importantly is to
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talk about the fact that over the last
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years we have to look at what our
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opposition has done they watched as
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300,000 manufacturing jobs fled out of
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Ontario at that time there was no once
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in a generation crisis there were no
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tariffs it was policy designed by the
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opposition to push those jobs away and
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crush our goods producing sector and now
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they want us to revert back to their
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playbook speaker and we refuse to do
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that we will not stand idly by as
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President Trump tries to take our
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companies and take our jobs we're going
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to do everything in the power of a
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government to keep those jobs here and
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to keep those companies here in Ontario
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supplementary leader opposition this is
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a moment where you should be applauding
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yourselves you know workers are worried
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right now and they're pretty anxious
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about the future uh I mean look at the
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folks who are awaiting those jobs in
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Honda uh in Alist last month they were
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told there was going to be no change in
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Honda's production the premier took the
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company at their word and now they've
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announced a two-year pause in production
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and Honda is saying one thing in Canada
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and a completely different thing by the
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way in Japan that's right so how many
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more job losses and cancelled shifts is
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it going to take before the premier
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action response to the Minister of
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Economic Development you know Speaker
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4,200 men and women who work at the
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Honda plant will continue to work at the
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Honda plant in Alist the Honda Civic as
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an example is the number one passenger
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vehicle sold in Canada proudly made by
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those men and women in
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Alist the premier and I have both spoken
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personally to the CEO of Honda in Japan
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he has reaffirmed their commitment to
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their operations and their planned
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expansion in Ontario yes they have taken
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a pause there's no question about that
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but there's no change to their current
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employment or production in Allison
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tariffs are causing chaos and
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uncertainty worldwide we're facing a
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once in a generation challenge from down
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south but we are going to continue to do
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everything to protect the progress that
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we've made in the auto sector speaker
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final supplementary well speaker I hope
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he asked that CEO what he meant when he
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said that they were going to be in the
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future moving those jobs to the United
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States because that's what's being
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reported um almost 700,000 people right
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now in Ontario are unemployed that's
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like the population of Hamilton right
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you say you're protecting Ontario but
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you're not protecting Ontarians who are
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losing their jobs and can't afford their
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groceries a recession is coming this is
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the time for government to step up it is
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not enough to wait and see so why should
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workers trust the premier and this
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government to hold big companies
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accountable like Honda when they have
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failed to do so time and time
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again response Minister of Economic
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speaker President Trump has made it
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extremely clear he wants the companies
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that we've attracted to Ontario and he
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wants all of the jobs we have landed $46
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billion in investment here in Ontario
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that is just in the auto sector we have
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landed $6 billion investment in life
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sciences we've landed tens of billions
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of dollars of investment in the tech
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sector speaker since we took office
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almost 1 million jobs have been created
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that is a record here in the province of
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Ontario yes there are headwinds and we
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are fighting them with every tool and
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you'll hear more about some of those
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tools in today's budget which we hope
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you'll stand and support
