tv U.S. Senate CSPAN September 18, 2015 6:00pm-8:01pm EDT
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we brought in as a pilot. to upgrade the qualifications. so there are lots of things we can do to improve the system. >> thank you very much. . . country that has benefited from people coming from faraway lands, building a better future for themselves and their children and community then they could anywhere else. that is been the strength of this country. we are strong not in spite of our differences, but because of them. one thing that mr. harper is hisinued to under invest in family reunification.
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this is something that is really important to create strong communities. yes, >> the economic benefits of immigrant is what is well known. there's more to them than just workers, they are creating stronger cities and stronger future generations. canada has always given people a pass to succeed in this country, and that's what we need to get to once again. >> open floor. >> canada is a country of immigrant, your family immigrated to canada and that's what build this great country. my wife katherine emigrated to canada and many of the people that contributed so much. we have been closing the door more and door on certain aspects of immigration. family reunification is essential and been part of the
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immigration and completely shut down. you've got that strong family base there allowing people to in. shouldn't be considered a burden to society. it's something that contributes a great deal. we know that they let that problem that was created. even mr. harper admitted and one final point. unfortunately it's still the number one cause of unemployment among immigrant. i used to be chair of the quebec professions board. i know that we can do that. >> i don't know how you have a secret meeting with the media.
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[laughs] >> when it was under the previous liberal government it went down by 50%. we haven't done that. people understand that the new canadians in particular, talk a good game and didn't deliver, we have two and a half million newcomersrs that are contributig positive to this country, family people, growing our economy and working hard. this is one of the most positive things about the country, that we are ableth to control legal immigration and have the best record on success and immigration anywhere in the world. i think it's something we should be very proud. >> mr. harper has demonstrated over the past weeks in the case of refugees, canada is not doing enough. this is something thatof mr. harper has unfortunately done a number of times. he likes to talk about standing up against tyrants and dictators and terrorists, you know who
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stands up to terrorists, what does mr. harper do, he takes away their health care. we need to be a country opening and welcoming, yes, we need to be concerned about security, but that's notos the excuse to close the doors. brought tens of thousands vietnamese people. not using it as an excuse to do less than we should than the vast majority of canadians including mayors feel we should. >> let me correct the record on. a couple of things. >> first of all, the fact of the matter is we have not taken
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health care from immigrant, on the contrary, the only time is where we have bogus claimants. we do not offer them a better health care plan than the ordinary canadian can receive. >> that's not true. >> on the issue of refugees, this remains one of the largest countries in the world in terms of refugee resettlement. i said we will bring in more. what i said we will not do -- these guys in the last two weeks open our borders and people come out security check and documentation. >> mr. harper play plays fears - >> that's not right. >> immigration and can --
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canadians, mr. harper is fear rick who is no less than authority than former chief of defense staff last week said we've got to stop using the security concerns as an excuse to do nothing. mr. harper, why don't you stop using the security excuse as pretext to do nothing. nobody wants to let anybody without a security check but you are doing nothing. >> we are announcing we are bringing more refugees, we are providing a matching fund for humanitarian support. the vast majority of millions of people who will remain in those countries will need assistance. these are the things we are doing. >> 9,000 refugees before christmas and you won't do it. 46,000 over the next four years
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and you won't do it. that's the united nations asking . >> canada has done more in the past, we need to do right now. we have to do more. >> to the next topic. canadians have been on a bo -- borrowing. >> the fact of the can canadians security is their home, it's their savings, retirement. we need to make sure that incomes are rising as well. the middle-class canadians believe that their jobs are giving them better and better salaries, they can get raises. in order to do that, we need to create economic growth. the economy is going to grow as the same pace as house values.
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that's not what mr. harper has delivered. there are many other canadians who are fazing challenges around housing because they can't find rental housing, and that's why the liberal party has a plan to increase investment in home construction of rental units to help seniors with the cost of the rent by increasing the gif and making sure that we actually give people the support needed to be able to get their homes and have that economic security. >> would you restrict foreign ownership residential homes in canada? >> that's one of the things that we are seeing in a number of places, w is concern on that. we don't have enough accurate data to understand entirely what'srp happening. mr. harper t has cut that lees - leaves with less understanding.
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what we need to be is a federal government is a much better partner to provinces to be able to address challenge that is are being faced like vancouver, toronto, but also the challenges right across the country for people who are struggling to buy the first home, people who are struggling to find rental housing and need economic ladder to success that has always been for canadians but hasn't been overe the past ten years. >> what would you do to help the squeezed middle class who has high mortgages and high property taxes? >> i think the first thing canadians should recall, the last time the liberals were in power they can -- canceled, there were 35,000 homeless in canada right now.
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what we would do, i gave an example earlier of affordable child care with $15 a day. here in toronto and lots of other cities, well over $20,000 for child care for on infant and young people today have the largest student debt. i met lots of young people who were thinking about having a family and looked at the cost, balancing their life and family and their work, it's extremely difficult. we would make sure that we would put money in their pockets and we would bring in as a model for others and with regard to hundred thousand people a fair minimum wage, $15 an hour. >> open floor, mr. harper. >> some people are overextended. i think the housing story is a very positive story in this country. you know, you look around the world where there have been all of the financial and other crashes a lot of them centered
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around the housing market. in canada we have seen home ownership higher than the united states because people have been able to take advantage of lower interest rates and their incomes have been growing. that's a positive canadian story that we should celebrate. how do we continue to proact -- protectal that going forward? we bring specific incentives to help homeowners, tax credit, we ares. bringing improvement to te home buyers plan, doubling of contributions, things that allow people to save and invest more in their homes. what we do not need when our economy is threatened by the global economy is tax increases. these are risks we cannot afford and they are not good about homeowners. >> mr. harper has talked about growth, he has the growth record
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in 80 years of any prime minister. we know how to grow in the economy, interest rates are low, gdp is low, economic growth has been flat. we need to kick-start our economy and that's exactly what we areth going to do so people n get better jobs and actually afford their homes. that's where we help. the fact is that a young people -- family with a two--year-old doesn't need child care in grade 5. they need it right away. we need to invest -- we know right now to invest in the future of this country. yod u can make jokes all you wa, this is canadians having trouble making ends meet and you are offering national minimum wage.
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>> you had 13 years the last time you were in power to get to child care within liberal and you know how many they created, zero. >> that's not true. >> it wasn't a priority for them. quality, affordable child care is an -- [inaudible] >> billions of dollars. >> what message do you give to millenials? >> he thinks thatrt a good idea that a bungalow like vancouver and toronto is out of reach to them. at the same time., mr. harper says it's okay, i have a renovation tax credit. we are going to start by putting more money in people's pockets.
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they'll get more money at 15-dollar hour it's not only good to them but bring up a living wage. somebody who works full-time shouldn't be living in poverty. >> i havebe spoken to an awful t of canadians earning minimum wage. they work in coffee shops and you are giving them false hope by talking about 15-dollar national minimum wage. >> 99% of canadians earning the minimum wage aren't going to be -- >> wait a second. >> voted on this on september 22. >> i will campaign against the false promises that you are making.
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you are pretending that it's a significant. it's not going to help. it's not going to help 99% of people earning minimum wage. >> let's go to mr. harper. >> we're not just bringing home renovation tax but help families reach, to bee able to build thr first home as we enhance first- time owners plan. in terms of rising costs of foreign speculation, we said we're prepared to act on that if the data shows that's really a problem. we are doing more than things to help canadians families. we deliver directly to canadian families. we are enhancing it. wedc are increasing dead duction in your income tax. we are doubling.
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[inaudible] >> agree on one thing, they want to continue to send mr. harper's uccb checks to millionairs. that will make a significant difference in the lives of people who need and neither mr. harperle -- >> you don't have enough money to fund your -- >> first off in debate is taxation. you say you will raise corporate tax rate from the current 15% to 1wi # 7%. -- 17%. what economic justifies your
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decision? >> tens of billions of taks -- tax reductions in canada, that hasn't worked out so well. there are 300,000 more people unemployed today then when the first recession hit. so, yes, canada largest corporations aread going to pay their fair share. it will still be less than the average, well below but we are asking canadians to pay their fair share. we are going, to start right away. we are goingat to start right ay to reduce the taxes on canada's job creators, small and medium size businesses create 80% of the jobs in this country. we think that's a good idea. we are going to close loopholes and effectively pay more.
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>> you lose revenue. >> mr. harper has done nothing about that. we are have had cases where authorities have given canadians who have been using illegal tax and mr. harper has done nothing about that and will make sure that the wealthy start paying their fair share. we looked at the success of years of promises by the liberals talking about raising children out of poverty. hundreds of thousands of children go to school without having eaten. we are going to take the 5 million-dollar that is given to wealthiest, that's direct action to act on a problem that the other parties have talked about for years but have done nothing about. yes, canada's largest corporations are going to
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resembling their fair share, and it's time that they didn't. it doesn't work and we will change it. >> mr. harper, you won't raise taxes, how do you raise the federal revenues? >> well, actually, we've -- you know we've cut business taxes and our corporate tax revenues are rising because we have a exert ittive -- competitive tax environment. he is claiming that he will cut taxes on small businesses. why are other experts saying that his plan will cause job losses. they claimhe their going to balance the budget, bring billions of new spending, balance the budget through tax increase, what happened, we end up with job losses. that's what we had in british colombia and we are seeing exactly the same story in alberta. we had layoffs and now because of business tax increases.
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in an instable global economy we have exert -- competitive tax rates. high taxes, permanent deficits do not create jobs. >> mr. harper is talking about the round of layoff in alberta. that's exactly why we have a plan to create support to invest now when there's an opportunity and thousands of people are out of work with skills that can be put to work in building our country right now and in the years to come. but on taxes we have been very clear. we feel that overall canadians pay enough, except the middle class should pay less taxes and the wealthiest pay more. i am going to raise taxes on the wealthiest so we can cut them from the middle class. what he is doing to do not tax the bank executives who get paid
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high salaries because cutting corporate taxes will prevent executives to hire more people in their money. we arero going to lose jobs -- >> very first vote in parliament seven years ago was to back mr. harper's corporate tax give aways, one of his most recent, one of his last votes in parliament was to vote for bill c-51 which seriously compromises the rights and freedoms of all canadians. we showed why it's dangerous. that's leadership. >> you're talking about canadians getting ahead right now and you're playing the same politics that mr. harper has. mr. harper wants to talk about terrorists. both of those are politics of
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fear that the liberal party has refused to accept because we need to vote, protect canadian security and the liberal party has always done both, but on taxes we have a plan to lift 315,000 kids out of poverty by increasing child benefit payments to families who need it and we are going to ask the wealthiest to pay a little bit more so we can lower class taxes for the middle class. thisdd is something will actualy do. it's not about politics for us, it's about doing the right thing, recognizes that for the ten years of mr. harper, there hasn't been the kind of growth and canadians with money to spend, are going to create opportunities for themselves, for their families and communities. >> absolutely not. let me be clear on what we have actually done. the federal tax on small businesses down by over 40%
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under this government. it's going to go down further. you know, we brought in things like40 savings accounts that 111 millions canadians are benefiting from. over 6 million adults benefit from that. we are bringing a home renovation tax credit that millions of people will want to use, will be able to use. ,bl enhanceing registered disability savings. we brought a tax cut that you can bring in that will benefit every canadian. it compared the middle class to other middle class where our income is moving ahead where all is falling behind, partly because we are making sure that we have money in people's pockets and not talking about raising any n of your taxes goig forward and this is in an unstable global world the kind of plan that we need. not one that comes up, gives you
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a small business tax cut and hammers you with a worker with enormous increase. >> mr. harper is talking about disposable income. disposable income almost 165%. canadians are more indebted now than they have ever been. we need a government to step up and create opportunities by investing better transit, social housingin and child care, by investing in support for floodplains mitigation like we need and investing in green infrastructure that's going to create jobs going forward that we know we need. we have a plan to invest in the future of this country and we are absolutely straight about it, yes, we are going to run modest deficits for the next three years because borrowing has never been cheaper because of low interest rates and gdp is healthy andec going lower and te economy is flat and canadians
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need job. we have a plan to kick-start the economy and make it easier for the middle class to get ahead and people to join the middle class to succeed. that's what we are putting forward. right now mr. harper doesn't have a plan to do that -- mr. harper thinks he is all fine. >> thank you very much, david. mr. trudoe said that a small percentage were tax cheap, that doesn't correspond with the mall business owners that should be reminded to all of us create more of the 80% of new jobs in country. they deserve the tax break. that will help great new jobs. >> but you're selecting the -- >> that's not the experience i've seen with the mom and pop
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operations. everything. >> thank you to the three leaders. now, while the leaders catch their breath we will move to the second part of the evening. it is said that in the old days the elector used to choose representatives but now as data becomes more sophisticated politicians are able to select anything. it marks and someone say uncomfortable shift, wish me luck as i try to push the leaders off the well rehearsed and get each of them the opportunity to explain themselves, more thoroughly and hopefully withlv few interruptis from the others. i will ask each leader a specific question that will be followed with an exchange before turning to open debate. leadersng have no prior knowlede of the questions.
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you lead a party that has never run the country. why should the electorate handle the economy to you? >> 150 years being told that we have no choice. when we are tired of the liberal scandal we have to go to conservative, then when we get tired conservative. hold on, there is another show. has the best record for balanced budgets. douglas to be over and that was in bank -- bankruptcy. i come from a family of ten kids. i'm the second oldest. we had to work hard. we live within our means. we took care of each other. those are the values that have guided me as a father, and as a husband. i'm proud of that.
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we are a party that will make people our top priority. we run medicare, we will bring affordable quality, child care across canada. >> is your determination to avoid a federal deficit at all costs not simply opportunityism and a defensive play? >> it's something that reflects exactly how i've been as a public managerser. i practiced law as a lawyer for ten years during la -- that period, but i've always served thee public. our older son is a police officer and my youngest son is college professor. we all serve the public. i want to make sure we do the right thing for people going forward. i want to make sure that when my granddaughter goes to university she doesn't have to borrow at the level they are borrowing
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today. i don't want to leave a massive debt for future generations. >> surely something that is a challenge to the fabric. our fabricch understand as i jut mentioned but you can look, it's in our dna. the only way to bring something as important as quality, affordable child care across canada to build it on a solid foundation and that means balanced budget. of course, everyone agrees, but that's not the case now. we don't want to leave more billions in the back of generations. to follow up and this is a recurring issue, the last part of the debate. and thatri is what all of your visions are from this great country. what will you do to build a new
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economy? >> make sure that it's a knowledge-based economy. the only way to create new wealth is to create new challenge. canada has to b ne playing a moe active role. when we travel across the country, a young people that i met, i was in there home. they had $130,000 in student debt. with 24,000-dollar a year child care fee, when -- family having children is a good thing for the couple and the economy. let's get this right for the future. my priorities is going to be like when we brought in medicare. it will help for generations now and that includes balanced budget. >> let's go to. the open floor.
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>> a plan for investment like my planes on harper's budget. it takes to know the canadians are capable of building a stronger future and after the lowca growth that we've had for many years it's time to kick-start the economy. a lack of infrastructure, a lack of a future because the government didn't want to invest in our country. is putting it off. he's made balancing steven harper's budget his priority. he can give canadians the help they need that way we will. the plan is to actually do what we know, politicians that have
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done in the past and balance the books, i oops, the numbers are worst than we thought. we are going to have to break the promises. that's n wot what i'm going to . i'm being honest with canadians. we are going to invest in the future canadians need right now. >> mr. harper. >> look, the whole essence of the plan is he says we will balance the budget. that's what they tried everywhere. they left british colombia in a massivee deficit, alberta's deficits have gone larger because tax hikes do not -- do not grow the economy, they do not create jobs, they kill jobs. we don't want to go down that path. now,we mr. trudoe says we will have greater optimism by spending more. i think that's what canadians fear. we make sure we are making investments in the things we need to as we are doing and in
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infrastructure, in training, innovation, but we do that in a way we can continue to do, continue to afford without raising taxes by having a balanced budget. and i think in this unstable global economy is a guaranty and should be optimistic. >> you've been stuck in a motorcade for the last years. i have talked with provinces right across this country who need a reliable federal partner to-- step up and invest. the serious economist across the country have said that we have a plan that is exactly what we need. no less than the person that you appointed to head up the privy
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council, kevin lynch, applying forai investment is what we nee. the former -- chair of bank canada, a list of the former parliamentary budget officers. many people that said now is the time to invest. that's exactly what the liberals are going to do. we know that countries that believe in their future are willing to invest in their future. >> we have the largest infrastructure right now, including major transit announcements. to look at the numbers. we areur doing that without raising your taxes and without worrying money. i have to tell you something, those people will tell you to spend more. that's what they will tell you. you have to be able -- >> thank you, david. our plan is based on long-term
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vision. we know what has to be accomplished. short-term approach leaving tens of billions in the the backs of future generations. you havelk voted for steven harper's budget. i can guaranty you i have never voted for one of his budgets and your very first vote as member ofme parliament was to vote for his tax give away to canada's largest corporation. i can guaranty that we fought that every single step of the way. >> i think what we are seeing is an extraordinary exchange of ideas between ndp and deficit favoring liberal party. so i want to turn this one to mr. trudoe, taxing the richest
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and then spending it, why should canadians who are already up to their eyes in debt be encouraged by your message? we are raising taxes on the wealthiest 1% so we can cut them for the middle class. that w is the shift that we feel we need. you can here income inequality all of the time, except they actually are not doing anything about it, only the liberal party is going to ask people who have been very successful to do a little bit more so we can put money in the pockets of the people who actually need it. that's what p our approach is, because we know that that's what we have to do. on top of that and aside from that, we are also going to make historic investments in the future of our country because canadians need transit, they need roads and bridges, we need clean water and waste-water treatment systems.
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that's what investing in our future is all about. that's not left or right. that's what canada needs. >> we know that you propose what is fairly modest deficit against the 2 trillion-dollar national economy. what do you consider to be the biggest single challenge you face because for the cost of your platform i can't add it up. >> we were the first party to put out a framework, we are indeed going to run three modest deficits over the years so we can balance the books in 2019. what canada needs right now is growth. what we need -- because mr. harper has been unable to deliver it having the worst growth record since the great depression -- is a plan to grow
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the economy, and you do that by investing in our communities, transit, green infrastructure, the kinds of things that are going to contribute. >> let's go back to your idea of infrastructure bank. the federal government's role in a country like canada used to be a partner serving citizens with communities, with municipalities and provinces. we will respond to the needs the canadians have on the ground to improve quality ofun life in the city. that is whatua the federal government should be. that's not what the federal government haswh been over the past decades as mr. harper has refused to engage with the provinces, has not been a solid partner in transit and infrastructure investments that are needed, and that's exactly what we are going to turn
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around. >> there's clear sense the structural change is happening to the economy. what will you do, what are your policies to build that new economy? >> one of the things that we are looking at right now because of the challenges with low oil prices, we have construction and engineeringer multinational firm here who are suddenlyily bidding on -- suddenly bidding on local contracts. this is the time tois invest in our hometown, mr. harper. you need to step up and we need to step up as a federal government and be there from municipalities who are trying to create new avenues of opportunity given the nature of our commodities. this is exactly a moment to invest when interest rates are low, when our debt in gdp is low because mr. harper hasn't stepped out from his hometown or anywhere across the country.
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>> let's go to open floor, mr. harper. >> if i could respond to that. as i said before, we are making record investments in infrastructure right now including a federal program that's rolling out across the country. youg know, let's be frank about mr. trudoe's plan, he went around the country and promised far more money than he actually had and found out the taxing of few wealthy people does not cover that. now trying to run that deficits are a good thing. that's what we've done. this is a guaranty to people. to you ladies and gentlemen, when we lowered your taxes are going to stay down and when mr. trudoe gets us off the anchor, we know that the liberals have done that and goes on forever --
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>> mr. harper, you haveor run deficits in good years, you have run deficits in bad years. the only time you said the deficit are not going to be run is in election years. the fact of the matter is you stood up on stages like this and looked canadians three times and promised not to bring deficits. that's exactly what you've done. we are stuck in deficits for so long is because you don't understand that giving tax breaks and benefits to the wealthieste canadians is not a way to grow the economy anymore. we have low growth. you have the low job creation record. we need once again to get this country investing in its own future, and that's what you haven't done. >> we ran surpluses before we had the global financial crisis. when the global financial crisis came, everyone in the world ran
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deficits, we told canadians we would run a program, get it out quickly, sustain our government and it would be temporary and the deficit would fall until it was eliminated. we have done exactly that on the schedule that we said we were doing it. why would we return to deficits now and we need to make sure we need to assure people -- >> back on july 19 mr. trudoe gave a press conference at which he said he would balance the books, he would run balance budgets nonstop. a few weeks after that, he announced that he would run $10 billion a years in deficit. you just heard him say the same thing. he was criticizing the fact that mr. harper was running deficits. when your advisers tell you one thing overg another, pick one,
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you can't say them both. with regard to -- your first vote in canadian parliament. wasn't it vote for mr. harper's -- >> i am looking at canadians and being honest the way we always have. we will balance that budget in 2019 because canadians need investment. you ared looking at canadians. >> made no cuts to social programs. i'm sorry,cl mr. harper, when yu sat down and announce that had you were going to be cutting the budget formula by $36 billion for health care -- >> let's be absolutely clear on what the facts are. under this government our transferssf for provinces has risen. andm. that number will grow every single year. we will hit over 40 billion.
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>> you raised from 65 to 67. you've made that announcement -- >> 23. what we've done is brought in the biggest increase to the guaranteed income for most valuable seniors. you like to talk about the facts.bu >> mr. harper, you just made a statement -- you said you never cut social programs. medicare and raising the requirement age, that's not true. >> he just stepped back from that promise. he just promised to increase and now he said, no, balancing the books is more important. >> thank you. i move to the final question of the debate and it goes to mr. harper. mr. harper, you're going to need
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some new ideas. the reality is the oil patch resources in general are going to be a smaller part of the canadian economy, and it is clear that under your watch canada is no longer an international champion on many different data points. we have record household debt, we have minimal growth, and in many cases we have stagnant wages, why do you deserve more time? >> let me be clear on that. i just don't accept what you just said. you look over the past ten years, income growth, job growth, we have done better than all the nature economy. right now a portion of our economy is being hard hit by the fallen oil prices. that's something that concerns me. it p affects people i know and personal friends and family for a long period of time. we will do something about that. but to suggest for a second that that
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that is all there is to our policy is false. taxes, getting them down. training, making sure we are investing in things that we know there's labor demandin for in te future. trade' opening markets, we now have assigned, we are going to have access to half of global tdp. reforming our immigration system, make it more effective for our economy and making record investments and infrastructure. that's why i believe the canadians are optimist. >> what do you say to the auto sector as you look at the pacific trade plan? >> well, look, we know the auto sector has concerns on that particular as do others. david, what i say we are entering the final stages of a trade discussion in the asia pacific that is frankly going to
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conclude successfully. now, what i say to the auto sector in particular, i'm not suggesting they will necessarily like everything that is in that, but what i am saying is we simply cannot afford as a country to have our auto sector shutau out. that would be a disaster. we want to make sure we get the best deal for that. we are committed as a government to making sure we do not fall behind in our access to a global trading economy which is so integrated. if we dog that, that would be disastrous for the country. >> you know better than most the challenges and the problems that come, that can't do predicted. you are facing an economy that's incredibly challenging. what are youw thinking out for the new economy? how dneo we turn from resources and knowledge of sharing economy? >> david, i have come to work for seven years in a row with nothing but economic crisis around the world. as a banking crisis, debt
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crisis, housing crisis, we have market h chaos in china. we do have to do two things, we do have to respond to the crisis, but we have to operate on a long-term plan. that is what we have been doing. the long-term plan is not just about resources, but also including resources. i don't want to suggest for a second that we are not going to have a vibrant resource sector. the fact that we have unparallel resource, highly educated workforces of the world and innovativehe and one of the reasons canada is able to weather the global economic storms better, and we are committed that all of these sectors move forward together. >> thank you, mr. harper. one of the questions that the prime minister responded was with respect to his vision.
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what do you think that the ndp can use to transition our economy beyond the china, we are not going to raise rates again? >> i believe it is possible to build a canada that's more generous and prosperous. i think we should try to work hard to raise everybody up. i do come from a very large family and i've seen what it is when people work together and hold together, they try to give the helping hand. i also know that around the world, people started looking at us differently. i want our democratic institutions respect ied here at home and respected abroad. i want to make sure that every young person gets the opportunities that they need and that our seniors get the help
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that they deserve. that's why we -- >> mr. trudoe, what do you say -- >> on the contrary the reason mr. harper hasn't been able to get out of deficit is because he hasn't greated growth -- created growth. they're an important element in building the economy and making sure we arebu creating proper partnerships and moving resources as well asnd creating educational opportunities to young people across the country by investing to the liberal platform 2.6 in platform education. we have an awful lot to do to keep investing in the economy. mr. harper continues to think that giving tax cuts to the
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wealthiest canadians will create growth. that hadn't. he's not going to be able to actually act on them because unfortunately he has back loaded his promised and he's committing to balance when we don't need balance with low interest rates right now with a declining gdp ratio and plat economy, we -- flat economy. to invest in the future. that's what economist do and that's what liberal party in canada is proposing. >> mr. harper. >> when it came out the other day that it was confirmed by the auditor that we actually had a surplus last year. not just this year but a surplus last year. mr. trudoe came out and said that's because theyt cut veters and seniors and infrastructure. spending in all of those areas has gone up. the way we balance the budget
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was we actually did increase revenues. we did it by cutting taxes. i guess what i say to people is the same thing i said before. we are not saying in the economy everything is great. we have significant risks and challenges, what we are saying we are doing making sure we are investing in the thing thats tht cost long-term growth, education, retire and higher taxes and deficits is a risk that buys nothing for our people and we have to reject that kind of a plan. >> mr. harper was elected on a promise to make better. corruption has actually increased and that's part of his legacy. it has become more divisive and relationships have become meaner. refused to attend any meeting. i come out of politics, i know
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that it's part of my job if i become prime minister to sit down with to work with them on important issues facing them and on things that we want to bring forward like quality affordable child care. >> one of the thing thats that i think is fairly clear is i the gentlemen, the main i disagree on is lack of ambition. well, that's not true. in this country better is always possible. talks about making things better but isn't doing to act on it because he has no plan to build the economy we need. >> thank you very much. so, ladies and gentlemen of thee you have it, debate on the economy comes to an end. you heard wide range of different views and in amongst time it will be voting day. i would like to thank everyone who has joined us and made this
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evening possible. we believe in the national debate and i'm sure that you agree that we don't want tonight. final word to the three leaders, we wish you all well, we know that you have a common interest in doing the best for canada, you just have a different way of doing it. stay with us, we will be carrying the post debates later. first james joins us now to begin the post debate debate. i'm david, thank you and have a good evening. [applause] >> tonight the senate armed holds hearing in way to combat isis. see that hearing tonight at
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8:00 p.m. eerch -- eastern on c-span2. right after that, samantha power. she also spoke about the syrian refugee situation and efforts to combat isis. the event was held at the cristian science monitor and we will show it to you at 10:00 p.m. eastern also on c-span2. >> a signature feature of book tv is our all-day coverage of book facer from across the country with top nonfiction authors. here is our schedule. near the end of september we are in new york. in early october, the southern festival of books in nashville. the weekend after that we are live from austin for the texas book festival and near the end of the month we will cover two book festivals, the wisconsin
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and back on the east coast the boston book festival. we will be in portland, oregon, followed by the national book awards from new york city t at the end of november from florida from the miami book fair international. that's a few of the fairs and festivals this fall on c-span2's book tv. >> upcoming visit to the u.s. first stop on the pope's tour on wednesday september 23rd. hope francis will visit the white house, followed meeting with president obama, on thursday september 24th the pope makes history on capitol hill becomes the first hope to address the house of representatives and senate during a joint meeting. follow all of c-span's live coverage to pope visit to
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washington. live on tv or online on c-span.org. [applause] >> former president jimmy carter gave an update on diagnosis. he revealed publicly last month. he was joined by his wife who discussed world events and future goals. this is an hour. [applause] >> very good. welcome to all of you and thank you very much for your many messages that you sent me lately
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since i announced that i have an illness. i've had my only radiation in my brain. as a new medicine being developed for my disease and that is called -- [laughs] >> it took me three weeks how to say it. i take every three weeks four times and i've had so far without any ill effects and we'll know what the positive effects are a little bit later on. i started out with 84 ounces a day. instead of getting productive work, i spend a lot of time in the restroom. [laughs]
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>> i'm going to continue now with a -- [inaudible] >> we have been working on a number of issues a you well know, we have -- the senator has been establishing itself or preparing itself ever since we found it in 32 years or so ago. we have a very attractive and well qualified group of trustees the other one approved by the president and approved by us. we have a legally binding center between the carson center. it provides economic background research and that sort of thing.
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we also have allies and friends from many countries in the world that have joined in with us in elections and preparing for peace and helping with the diseases and that sort of thing. those will continue as well. we have a -- we built up for a long period of time. i don't know exactly what it is now. it's in that neighborhood. we will build up that continuingly. we have never taken any mown out of the endowment. we are prepared, i'd say, financially and organizationally and so forth. would you stand up, please? [applause] >> he's in charge of all of our
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peace programs and spent 24 years with the united nations and president of embassy of several counties in which we do business. one of the things that we started at the carter center in back in '89 was monitor troubled elections. that has been productive process for us. because it has never had democratic elections i want to shift government to a democracy within the carter center, we go in and monitor that first elections, and sometimes a democracy that the opposition parties are not willing to compete in a troubled election because they don't think it's going to be honest. quite often, we go -- we
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finished our 100th election in indiana back in may. the majority of our money and the majority of our people involved in dealing with health care for people who are desperately in need of the system. as you know, we started out in 20 countries and 23,600 villages and we are down now to four countries and a very few villages and we so far 11 cases of ginny worm in the whole world. [applause] >> we hope the second disease
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eradicated. i hope i am living longer but that remains to be seen. we also have an an -- ongoing exhibit in the national museum. it's been very popular there. it's going to be there until january of, i think, 2017; is that right? >> yes, sir. >> several times. we are looking at the possibility of putting several exhibit in london, but that hasn't been finalized yet. human rights defender program, as you know we are concentrating the last few years on the horrible abuse of women and girls around the world. we had another session on that in february of this year and we talked about how women have been so vital in promoting peace in their own countries. they are the ones -- they are
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the ones the experience the effect or harming effects of war on themselves, on the people that they care for and their children. that was a main program. this fall, later on, we are going to have a special program where we have muslim and cristian leaders who have trained in nearby senegal. i was going to go but my doctors won't let me go. i can't go there. so other people will be representing me. but we we are continue to go promote the concept that religious scriptures in the bible and so forth, there's no allegations by god or alah that women are inferior and grant --
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recently i've been traveling a good bit. this year i've traveled as much as i have before. she'll describe later on. i went to russia with a group of people called elders, there were six of us. we met with former president and other leaders and spent with president putin and discussed all of the issues that putin now has on the agenda with president obama and other leaders around the world. one of the interesting things, i'm not going to go into about.
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he's been working with the opposition forces as long as leaders of syria. the russians are supporting assad. what he hoped to see develop was an an arrangement whereby arrange with other countries, one would be iran and saudi arabia and turkey. that is a very wise decision. if you brought five countries together, they can agree for any future for syria would be most likely to be accepted by other countries. that's a darn good obama. what did obama said, i brought it up to president obama. i said do you mind if i do that for you. i sent president obama and
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secretary of state kerry, kerry went to meet with putin to explore that idea. i hope it will continue. we need to get on the same side whenever we possible can with russia and with china, by the way to promote peace in the world and harmony and future, economic development for everybody. china, by the way, as you know we have the first official visit of ping with president obama, it's an official visit later on this month and he's been in office now for a long time. i would say he's the most powerful leader of china since ping. they've had four or five, he is very powerful. it was very important to see the united states and china cooperating whenever we can and
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treating each other with respect and equals. china has emerged to be one of the greatest powers on earth in 1979. china announced that they would be open and and -- reform. people to move around and things have changed. they also have diplomatic relations with everywhere in the world. they have great challenges undergoing -- ongoing in china right now with ping has to deal with. my hope is he and president obama can find common ground on as many things as possible. we have been at war since 30
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different countries since the second world second war. china has not been to war with anybody. china can cop -- cooperate and bring peace. that's happening this month, as a matter of fact. another ongoing is people to have access to information. ati programs. that means that citizens of different countries can have legal right to know what their government is doing, what kind of contracts, sails are -- sales are made. we take it for granted in our country. they're still not perfect in this country. we are trying to do that with countries all over the world and we are working very hard.
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we found that in guatemala and liberia that women are greatly deprived on an equal basis having the same access as husbands. we are trying to correct that problem as well. now to get back to the diseases, and that'll be the last thing i mention. we just finished administering 220 million, medicine that deals with blindness and the carter center has been transforming agent now in changing goal with global blindness, in the past we
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just tried to control global blindness. and they won't have it for another year. they would have to give another dose. hopkins in latin america or six countries, one dose per year, up to four, we can complete eliminate the disease from that country. we've done that now in four countries in latin america and we are on the verge with one exception one tiny pride between venezuela and brazil. so we will soon be of global blindness because of the work of our crew. we have taken the knowledge to africa and instead of trying to control every year, to completely eliminate from one country at the time. we haven't set the goal of doing away with it for the entire
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world, and so we are just dealing with it on a country-by-county basis. that's elimination. we can treat them together in all of africa because the disease is transmitted by exactly the same mosquito. if we can get rid of the mosquito and do other treatments, we can get rid of those at the same time. we are doing in nigeria and trying to eliminate both of them. the only place that has malaria is in caribbean. haiti and dominican republic next door on the same island. we have been able to reduce the amount of malaria in dominican republic by two-thirds and haiti by 33% just in the last few
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years. as far as -- as far as haiti is concerned, reduced by 80% since the earthquake. those are the things that i wanted to say to bring up to date and i will turn it over to the boss of the carter center and at the end of this we will answer your questions. >> yes, sir. >> okay. you take charge as you always do. [laughs] >> we have mental health journalism. this is a program we started, what else can we do about stigma, overcoming stigma, since the president has impact on what people think about mental health issues and people living with
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mental illnesses why don't bring reporters here and train them so they can report. this is our 19th year. as i said we trained 165. we expanded it to south africa, romania and colombia. we do one at a time and we usually choose another country. colombia is -- to go back a little bit, this is my favorite program of the year. it is so exciting for people coming from all over the country. we have 117 applications. it's just getting to be really exciting.
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and we have five fellows from colombia. colombia has done working with two people on the same issue. i have five. i don't know where the other came from. colombia has -- outside of bogotá. it makes so much difference if you get the program based with who really work on it. all of them have been good but this has been a special. we did an evaluation of the
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program this past year and learned so many things that have been going on. they gave us this sheet. i'm just going to point out a couple. forced to resign, share a hospital based on reporting of inhumane, this is just amazing in this country that had never worked on mental health. this one i really like. $47 million in state legislature budget allocated to a psychiatric beds. we are always begging for money. i'm glad to see that that's been supported by the government too.
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so that's exciting. we began our program again, we started program in liberia, the first time we had ever done, tried to develop mental health program in other countries. and so we trained 150 mental health clinicians. we did -- we got 144, we hadn't reached our 150, we did one more class and we started that and finished that one in august and we had about the same number as before in each class and so we actually trained 165clinicians. it has access to information program line -- liberia and
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access to justice and the mental health program to teach people about ebola and how contagious it was and what it could do. it was ratifying because they did -- they did overcome the ebola. we had one, i think, case that came up later, but it was -- it was just exciting to be able to do that. [inaudible] >> i want to thank people. we have had help and support and it's been really in spite of all that's going on, it's been kind of wonderful just to know that we have that kind of support and also attitude. [applause]
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>> president and mrs. carter will take as many questions as we have time for tonight. i want to thank those of you here who submitted questions and those who submitted questions via twitter, and we've chosen those that represent the main lines of interest. president carter, there were a number of questions about your health but i believe you already addressed that. so we'll move onto an easy one, and this one is from the audience. the whole world is concerned why the european migrant crisis, how can this be solved globally? >> well, the united states has been the prime recipient of immigrant from the founding of our countries.
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we had horrible crisis like vietnam war. after i became president and the united states were receiving immigrant from vietnam and cambodia 12,000 a month and we continued that and we used our good example to encourage the europeans and other countries to accept immigrant as well. i would hope there would be some reaction with germany leading as you know the german government has started out with open arms and they closed down their borders pretty strictly. i think it's on the tuesday to get all the european countries in eastern europe to agree to accept a certain quota of immigrant. the total quota, 125,000 a year and the estimate is 400,000 a
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year, so even though they are generous, i don't know what's going to happen. the problem is the other -- i think president obama has announced recipient to receive 10,000 in two years which is a tinea group. the best thing to deal with syria because that's the main origin of the people coming to turkey and greece, hungary all the way to germany. there's not an easy answer to it. we now have more refugees from war zones on earth than in history everyone after the second world war, and so about a fourth of the total population of lebanon now are refugees from syria and jordan is heavily afflicted with it and turkey has
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taken a lot of the refugees. i really think that in the states ought to follow up with a suggestion that i mentioned earlier of president putin and intervene some way where iran after the nuclear thing is approved and russia and the united states can try to lead the world because the united states, i think, mistakenly, of course, excluded any possibility of president assad being involved in deciding what happened to iran in the future. we thought it should have included president assad, but the united states decided that we should not do that. on the other hand, as you know russia and iran have supported the assad government and now isis has taken over a good portion of syria. to deal with the war in syria,
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will be the major step. is leading in many ways the constant effort to evolve arraignment whereby there could a cease fire and government process set up. we need with the united nations and other leaders, even those involved in the war itself trying to bring this about and also have a mapping program that the carter center has originated that lets the nation where rapidly changes forces are in syria. to deal with the question of syria's peace is the first step that needs to be taken on the refugee thing and every country to be generous. there's no answer to that,
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really. >> this mapping program was done by one of our interns watching social media. and he can tell people how to go safely with supplies for the people who are suffering and things, really a remarkable program. >> it is, indeed. president carter, this question comes from sarah brewster in the audience. as the naval graduate, what advice do you give -- >> well, first of all, study hard and make high grades. secondly if your parents are involved in politics like mine were, to get you a congressmen in favor in our application and
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prepare yourself well in advanced. i knew when i was six year's old my whole purpose in life was to go through the naval academy. i always said in elementary i'm going to go to naval academy. i started to say liberal, but i won't say liberal. looking at the people, family and looking at the students in school and if i really believe that they would be enough standing apolitic -- applicants, then i would give a letter of approval. i'm very strict about making
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recommendations unless i really believe that that particular student ought to be in the naval academy. prepare yourself for a very exciting career in life. >> thank you, mrs. carter, can you give us an update on your large family? >> well, it has exploded. we have 12 grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. we have 36 -- 37. i can't keep up. it's growing so fast. we have 23 of us in georgia. we schedule one to be here. we have to come at other times sometimes too. during the one week we have 21 that are here, we have dinner
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one night at the carter center, and so we get to see them. it's really quite wonderful. >> thank you very much. >> loudly. [laughs] >> president carter, with recent nuclear deal, in your opinion, how should the u.s. and other global powers deal with nations who have nuclear weapons ambitions? >> north korea -- >> no, sir. in light of the iranian deals. >> i'm delighted with the agreement with iran. i believe it's good for the united states, it's good for iran, it's good for israel. in my opinion it's good for the whole world to see this resolved as done courageously by john kerry with backing of president on oosm. i'm glad to know that president obama has now the assurance that congress cannot block do impremeditatation of the agreement. the next part of is to make sure
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that iran does comply with all of the announced restraints on them and access information about that nuclear program that obama administration has promised to the american people and to the world. this was done by europeans and russia and by china and others. it's backed unanimously by the leading countries on earth. i'm glad to see that done. north korea is going the other direction. i went to north korea in 1994 to deal with a crisis in north korea. some of you are familiar with this. the leaders of north korea sung was revered and worshiped like george washington and jesus christ put together in north korea.
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the united states was in the verge of deterring north korea to be a nation and sung to be a criminal. my chinese came if the united states did that, the north koreans would invade and attack south korea, and they -- military gentlemen from arkansas told me a million south koreans would be killed in the first 48 hours. i decided to go to north korea and negotiated a comprehensive agreement that ended development of atomic weapons. unfortunately since then other things have happened. now this week north korea announced that they are going to expand their nuclear program. back into a place where the nuclear takes place. anyway, i think we need to
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riggedly enforce nonproliferation treaty which was under kennedy. iran is member of the treaty. they have a right to develop a peaceful nuclear problem. the problem is that many people think they are going to adhere. the only country that doesn't comply with nonproliferation treaty, israel, india, pakistan and north korea and a new country of saddan. the four countries are the biggest threat. i would say that a war between pakistan and india with pakistan government being shaky in the last few years, maybe the biggest threat to nuclear peace.
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i don't think that north korea is going to attack anybody. it would be suicidal for them and i don't think iran even if they cheat would develop a few nuclear weapons are going to attack anybody, because israel has a lot of nuclear weapons and we would certainly respond by destroying the government of our government of iran. refused to sign treaty. others disappointed on. no other president before that would do so. aproblem approach -- a problem
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approach to that program. sign treaties with those like iran. >> thank you, we have a question now from steve who wrote in online from who are -- orlando, florida. dear president, mrs. carter, peace is possible without level of forgiveness? >> the analysis that i made based on my own and others -- otherwise was that the same causes of war between two countries are civil war inside a country are those cause a husband and a wife to get a divorce, the cause of parents
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and a child or between students on a college campus. it's a matter of honest difference or opinion and absence of willingness to forgive the other person enough to communicate with them and to discus the issue face to face or if necessary through mediator. that's the basic cause of conflict in the world. people within the family, or the university system or country are between two countries that meet with each other and talk to each other with mutual respect and mutual forgiveness, then most altercations can be resolved peacefully and if they are not able or willing to forgive the other person directly then to call on a mediator. you can buy my book and read it.
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[laughs] >> there's some examples to illustrate what i just said. i also teach in bible lessons in sunday school. >> thank you. maybe steve was in sunday school a couple of weeks ago. >> i've been on negotiating sessions with jimmy. i used to go years ago when we didn't have the staff that we have now and i would take notice while he negotiated, and you cannot believe how people hate each other and they just never going forgive. so what they need is a really negotiator like jimmy. [laughs] >> really significant negotiating and gotten people
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together. >> i certainly agree. [applause] >> mrs. carter, another one just for you. what progress in mental health issues do you see in the next five years and what are the goals for the united states mental health system? >> my goal is to overcome stigma and have everybody that has a mental health issue get help and i think it ought to be what it is -- have to cover mental health issues the same way they do other issues, but we are seeing a lot of progress. ..
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it's getting to be better but when we started working on this issue many years ago, some schools had six weeks or three months. that was unusual but no schools had it because we didn't know how to treat people back then when i first started with it. that kept up for a long time. they're still so much research going on and we are working on prevention now. now people can cover from mental illnesses and lead good lives and it's just an exciting time to be involved in the medical health field. >> thank you very much and much of that is thanks to mrs. mrs. carter's own work over many decades. [applause] president carter building on the success of guinea guinea worm is there another disease you think
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we could eradicate in the next 20 years? >> as many of you are do know we have said the only organization that analyzes every human illness regularly to see which diseases might possibly be eliminated from a particular region or a renegade from the entire world, the international task force on disease eradication has been here for how long john? 25 or 26 years and it's the only one. we have with us the gates foundation and the world health organization and others like that have expert knowledge so they come to the carter center and we analyzed every human illness on a sequential basis and identify those that could be eliminated. i think if i had to say it would probably be river blindness because we have already shifted as i told you earlier from current trolling it every year
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to giving multiple doses and by doing that we can totally eliminated from a country and we have done it in four countries and we are on the verge of doing it in more countries now. if we do that country by country and get to the end of the river blindness then it would be totally eradicated. both bill and melinda gates have talked seriously about malaria being targeted for total elimination and there are others as well. not as well-known as those two so i would say those two would be good possibilities. >> thank you very much and now here's a question from sherry who signs with a heart. president carter would he like one day for one of your children or grandchildren to -- our great-grandchildren to be governor president or both?
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why or why not and how would you advise them? >> i have one particular grandson who ran for governor last time. [applause] and i don't know what plans he has for the future but i have great-grandchildren to who another generation might. i think it's a good thing. jason although they didn't quite make it because of the sleep of republicans all over the country this past election has learned a lot about our state and learned a lot about himself and learned about what the people want and need in education education and health care and things of that kind so it's an educational process itself. it hurts not to be elected in the end but i have not had a close friend to ran for office that were sorry they ever ran. i think it's a wonderful educational process so i would
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say my progeny are descendents who want to get involved either directly or indirectly. >> terrific and had the lead united states should respond to the current threat posed by isis? >> well, i would like to save the united states be more aggressive in dealing with isis. as you know isis has taken over the eastern part of syria and is now gone primarily into iraq across the border and they have taken over a good portion of iraq as well. there was a program on television either last night or the night before on its almost been decimated. before we invaded iraq ourselves not too long ago the christians and the sunni muslims and the muslim leaders came to my home
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to say all three of them were thriving and they were getting along well with each other. the archbishop of the church there came along with them. they are now in hiding and they have no guarantee that they are even going to survive so from a christian basis i think we need to concentrate on doing away with isis which is dedicated not only to destroying the mosques with which they don't agree but totally eliminating every christian that survive summer and they live. i would like to see the united states be more forceful in dealing directly with isis. i would not publicly favor sending ground troops him but i think we could have better surveillance on our bombing and better analysis of what's going on there and i think we did corporate with others, perhaps even the russians and the iranians in dealing with the opposition in syria that
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comprises the isis sanctions and if all of the forces in syria could rent turn against isis that would be a wonderful opportunity but i don't think, assad would not be able to work that out. particularly with the united states and russia and iran's cooperation they could concentrate on isis moore. it's just not an easy thing to answer. the first opposition to isis should read the muslim countries in the arab countries that have ballistic weapons but they don't want to engage their own people in an indirect combat. the main forces fighting against isis now in iraq and also in syria are the iranians and although we have the continuing goal of attacking isis we don't find ourselves able at this time to cooperate with the iranians
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on anything except maybe the -- deal so in the future if we could get together with the iranians and the russians and concentrate our three countries on isis that would be the best long-term intervention to the problem perhaps. >> i have one that's a little lighter for you. >> you are asking me questions that no one knows how to answer. >> yes i'm aware that. this one comes from elizabeth lincoln was seven years old and she writes what was your favorite thing to do as president? [inaudible] i think the favorite thing we had was the family life we had in the white house. we had amy bera who was seven years old when we got there and nine years old when we got there and she was three years old when i became governor. we had two of our sons and their wives and family there. we had a grandson born the first month we are in the white house
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so we had a good family life in the white house but i think the primary part of my official duties that i enjoyed was dealing with foreign affairs. the president of the united states and the constitution is a much greater authority and responsibility in dealing with foreign countries than we do in handling domestic affairs. everything has to go by the federal finances or federal bank or the congress or the public. and somebody said the president is responsible for inflation or something like that i would say the president has one fourth of the responsibility for the economy. the congress has about a fourth and perhaps the federal reserve bank as a fourth and the private sector has about one fourth so it's a very small amount.
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i think foreign policies basically i did enjoy. i was able when i went to office, nobody ever asked me to bring together the egyptians and the israelis. nobody asked me to do that. nobody ever asked me to normalize diplomatic relations with china. nobody asked me to deal with the panama canal issue. nobody asked me to try to do away with apartheid in africa. those were the things i could initiate on my own so they were much easier and the gerbil tube deal with on issues of foreign policy. >> thank you president carter. here's a question from burl meeks of richland georgia. i'm going to address it to both president and mrs. carter. growing up in planes what was your favorite childhood game and how did playing it influence your later life?
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>> i think basketball. he said that but i think that was really what i enjoyed the most. i was a forward when it was two quarts and i even rode a donkey and a donkey basketball game. [laughter] but i do enjoy basketball. >> it was the center of our life. we even have the harlem globetrotters, and play basketball and i was on the varsity team in high school and i was on the all-star team in college. at that time there were not a slam dunks. i was very fast but i had, couldn't reach the goal posts. nowadays its height it makes all the difference. i think basketball was the number one sport and every high
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school no matter how small if i could have a football team and most of us could not, we did have basketball and baseball. baseball would have been my favorite and it's still my favorite sport professionally but baseball season to place during the planning and cultivating time and so all the farm boys including me our first obligation was to help her fathers on the farm but basketball was played. >> it was a lot vaguer in planes and we had a great competition. we could be america at that time. but he never beat his father. [laughter]
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>> one more serious question president carter. what can we as a nation do to overcome racism in the united states and the world and a questioner asks, adds thank you for all that you have done. >> i thought when the civil rights bills passed with the heroism of martin luther king jr. and lyndon johnson and harry truman, that we could breathe a sigh of relief. overcoming the ravages of racism and 100 years after the civil war, the war between the states we had racial supremacy for why people. it has been shown lately that
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jame of having overcome it is misplaced. we still have a lot of racism in our country. and within the consciousness of individual citizens, and i think some of the polarization of politics in this country is due to a large extent particularly in the south to racism. so the race issue is still very important. i think having elected president obama was a step in the right direction. we have 22 voters and her family in 2008. we have another one now who is an australian who has become an american citizen and can vote now. we had 22 votes in all 22 votes
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were for obama. we didn't have anything against hillary but collectively we felt it would be a step in the right direction. so i think the best thing we can do is to go back to the universal declaration of human rights. as i said in college lectures and so force and sometimes in my bible classes this is the formulation of the universal declaration of human rights in the late 1940s was when the citizens of the world reached a high possible level of commitment but the basic moral and ethical values that are exemplified by all the religions judaism islam and hinduism and buddhism and i think that is when we made a commitment with
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30 very brief paragraph that we would pledge ourselves to treat everybody equally and peacefully. and that would be, if we would follow that we would bring racism and i think most wars to an end. almost two years ago now i wrote an op-ed piece and pointed out that of the 30 paragraphs in the universal declaration of human rights that the united states was violating 10 of them. and we still are. because we don't treat everybody in our country equally and give them the rights that they deserve. anyway, i think to go back to our religious faith or to go back to the universal declaration of human rights is the only avenue in the long-term to do away with what is almost
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inherent human trait to think that we are better than other people because of race or because of where we live or the economic status of our parents or something like that. looking at other people as inferior, that the primary sin. >> thank you president carter. we have time for one last question for both president and mrs. carter. and the question is, for the lifetime of your work what is the thing you are the most proud of address to both of you. >> will answer that in my previous press conference. i said the best thing that ever happened to me was marrying rosalyn. [applause] but i think that i was very proud when i was elected president of the united states
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and that's an opportunity and i've been particularly blessed by that opportunity to lead a great country and i was proud also to keep peace for four years. very presence had done that down through history and we protected the interest of our country and we promoted human rights as best i could so in general i am proud that i was able to serve as the leader of this country in a peaceful way. [applause] >> and i was proud of him when he was the president. jimmy pass more legislation than any other sense, except lyndon johnson.
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since world war ii. and good legislation. we worked on overcoming racism and had a great administration. i think people are beginning to realize what a great president he was. [applause] [inaudible] [applause] as far as i'm concerned personally think working on mental health issues was the best thing i have done because so much has changed. not that i let everybody in the right direction but i had the
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experience of seeing all of the developer notes exciting to me. >> you did a lot more than watch. [applause] and with that we are going to wrap up this conversation. of course i would like to thank president and mrs. carter for taking this time to be with us and i want to thank all of you for your interest in the great work of the center. [applause] [applause] [applause]
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>> all persons having business before the honorable supreme court of the united states give their attention. >> petitioner versus arizona. >> the role --. >> madison is probably the most famous case this court ever decided. >> it existed as in slate people here on land where slavery was not legally recognized. >> putting the brown decision and effect would take presidential orders in the presence of federal troops and marshals and the courage of children. >> we wanted to pick cases that change the direction and imported the court society and also change society.
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>> so she told them that they would have to have a search warrant and she demanded to see the paper in to read it to see what it was, which they refuse to do so she grabbed it out of his hands and looked at it and thereafter the police officer handcuffed her. >> i cannot imagine a better way to bring the constitution to light than by telling human stories between great supreme court cases. >> boldly opposed forced internment of japanese-americans during world war ii. after being convicted for failing to report for relocation mr. korematsu took his case all the way to the supreme court. >> quite often and many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular.
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>> if you had to pick would freedom that was the most essential to the functioning of the democracy it has to be freedom of speech. >> let's go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. >> landmark cases and expiration of 12 historic supreme court decisions and the human stories behind them, a new series on c-span produced in cooperation with the national constitution center, reviewing monday october 5 at 9:00 p.m.. and as a companion to our new series, landmark cases the book features the 12 cases we have selected from the series with a brief introduction into the background, highlights and impact of each case written by veteran supreme court journalist tony mauro published by c-span
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in cooperation with congressional quarterly press. landmark cases is available for eight dollars and 95 cents plus shipping and handling. get your copy at c-span.org/ landmark cases. >> today the house voted along party lines to resettle funding for planned parenthood if it does not stop providing abortions while the house investigation continues. the vote, to an 41-187 in the house approved a bill that would enact protections for infants born alive or in abortion procedures. congressional lawmakers taking a few days off for the district work period. the house gavel stand thursday september 24 for an address by pope francis -- france's people watch the pope's address live or stay on c-span at 10:00 a.m. eastern.
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