tv Key Capitol Hill Hearings CSPAN March 12, 2016 6:00am-8:01am EST
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i won michigan in a landslide. he was living there. john has been not believe day. john has some problems. he is very much in favor of the trans-pacific partnership. that will be the destruction of ohio. ohio got lucky because they struck oil. the budget of ohio went up more than any budget in the united states, fighters and any budget, but got lucky because oil was in their ground as opposed to some states. now that the price of oil is down, ohio will have a lot of problems. one or two more. >> you won't be in salt lake city march 21st for the next debate? >> i didn't know the debate.
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.com we have annexed debate last night. it was a ratings bonanza and i would do debates if the networks agreed to give all the money to let's say the wounded warriors or the veterans, the networks are making a fortune on these debates, the ratings are through the roof but you know what? i think it is time to end the debate. i didn't know about a debate in salt lake city. >> you have been hearing mostly from republicans like paul ryan. have you heard from anybody in the republican party? >> i have been hearing from virtually everybody in the republican party and they congratulate me and say we are going to get together. these are not stupid people. these are very smart people. they want to embrace it, do they want to take millions of these voters? if you look at the polls, people tell me this all the time, when i went to nevada which we won,
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people the working in the polling areas have been there 20, 25 years, they love it, they are political people. every time i go there, we have never seen anything like this. nevada, we stand here, the place would be until morning long and now you have lines five blocks long, an amazing thing. >> last night on the debate stage you said trade is one of the areas. the context of ohio. how would you say you differ on trade from hillary clinton? >> she has no business instance, she doesn't have the energy or the strength to get the right trade deals made. you need strength, stamina. you need a lot to get these deals done. they come that you in waves. to do these deals they wrap up and put 12 countries, at ppp is an example. i want individual trade deals
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with individual companies conducted countries, some treat us better than others, some are worse. china will take advantage of tp p. they will come through the back door, they are watching it so closely. i have friends in china, a a great respect for china. i'm not angry at china. i am angry and our people, we have a trade deficit, $500 billion. it is unsustainable. we are going to change our trade deals, we're going to become a rich nation again. we cannot become a great nation until we become rich again. we can't afford social security, i will save social security, so many things we can do, it will go quickly too. >> your decision to endorse donald trump over ted cruz, he did indicate you are open to endorsing one of the two. why not ted cruz? >> we have a lot of excellent
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candidates. i think any of the 17 candidates could have done a fine job. one of the real factors for me is what will happen if we allow the political operatives to succeed in their endeavor to stopped donald trump. i think it would fracture the party irreparably and it would hand the election to the democrats. they would get the supreme court picks and america would be forever changed. that is the big picture. it is a very big picture. is not about me, not about donald trump, it is about america. >> why not ted cruz? >> i feel donald trump is willing to do what needs to be done to break the stranglehold
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of special interest groups and the political class. >> any remaining hard feelings in the fridge ted cruz over island? >> i have completely forgiven him. >> you said for a lot your life god has led you to your most important decisions, this is an important decision. did.edu to donald trump? >> i prayed about it a lot and got a lot of indications, people calling me that i haven't talked to for a long time saying i had this dream about you and donald trump. i also tend to think the way god speaks to you is by giving you wisdom. that wisdom says to me that if we allow this tempt to disturb the will of the people to be successful it will fracture the party in an irreparable way and hand the election to people who
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i personally believe would destroy our country. the reason i say is that is because hillary clinton was a great friend of small lewinsky when she was a student. saw lewinsky read the book rules for radicals. if you ever read recommend you read it and see the kinds of things that are recommended to change, fundamentally change this nation from the great success we have to a socialist country and the dedication page of that book says dedicated to lucifer, the original radical who gained his huntington. i don't want anything to do with anything like that. >> you talk about burying the hatchet. do you have any kind of conversation with donald trump with senator ted cruz and did he ask for your endorsement? >> he did not specifically ask
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for an endorsement, but he did apologize, said he wasn't really aware was going on, didn't really agree with that. >> y donald trump over ted cruz. >> you said a week ago today that you were endorsing we the people, sounds as if in the intervening time between then and now you have devolved, what i hear you saying is the effort to stop donald trump is not motivated you, is a donald trump's qualities for the presidency or the movement against him? >> it is about we the people. we need to empower the people. that is not going to be done through politics as usual. these at republican politics as usual or democrat politics as usual. requires somebody who is a bit of an iconoclast, someone who has the ability to listen and to
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make wise decisions. >> you have a lot of evangelicals, you think people will be representative of the american people, you think you can help bridge the gap as well as people of color now that you have endorsed donald trump? >> i hope we can bridge the gap with everybody. all the policies i have ever talked about and mr. trump is going to be on board with is too. we talk about things that good for everybody, not for this group or that group, the whole concept of picking and choosing winners and losers is something antithetical to what we believe, don't you? that simply would not happen with a trumped administration. we would be looking at ways to do is things that benefit all
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americans, create equal playing field, equality of opportunity is what we are looking for. that doesn't mean we are not sensitive to people who are downtrodden. we are very sensitive to people who are downtrodden. and putting in place things that will allow those people to ascend. many people have been placed in a position of the tendency for generations, they don't even recognize what is going on. we have to change that. >> we are fighting -- to china. >> i will let mr. trump answer that question. >> do you see a future for yourself in politics even if no promises were made as part of this endorsement, would you be interested in serving in a
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potential from administration? >> my concern is our posterity. all the people coming after us. we are destroying any possibility of the american dream for them with the policies we are doing. i would be interested in achieving the goal of making america great. >> you talk about donald trump -- you talk about the donald trump please see in public and private. does that worry you for the american voters, should the american voters know the second donald trump and as it relates to you, you have spot on a number of issues whether it is religion -- are we seeing a second ben carson with his endorsement? >> i don't think so. my point being there is a different persona, some people
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have gotten the impression that donald trump is this person who is not valuable, who does not have the ability to listen and to take information in and make wise decisions and that is not true. you might get that impression from looking at debates and some of the public appearances, but he is much more serena growth and that and on much more reasonable person than comes across but as you well know because you heard me talk about it a lot, the media are very skillful at painting people certain way. is it may not be who that person is at all. that person can spend all their time trying to change the media or they can move ahead. he has decided to move ahead and focus the attention on the
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american people, not so much on the media blitz that is the right way to do it. >> will you had the campaign trail with him? >> we will do some campaigning to get there absolutely. last question. >> being part of a potential donald trump administration, have you been promised a running mate or change the endorsement? >> we have not talked specifically about a role other than being involved in formulating policies and trying to make america great. that is the real key. as was said by many it is great, but nowhere near as great in the campaign. a lot of the things that are in place and have been in place and growing over the last few decades have led us to a place of incredible stagnation. we don't need to be there.
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if we want to begin to embrace those policies that will create the atmosphere for entrepreneur risktaking and capital investment you will see an explosion like nothing you have seen before. i don't think it will be that hard and i don't think mr. trump thinks it will be that hard either. >> thank you very much, great honor, go outside for coffee and drinks, enjoy yourselves, thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations]
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>> crazy people 1968. >> my question is on china. [inaudible conversations] >> coverage from the road to the white house continues on c-span. we take you to a high aware republican presidential candidate donald trump will hold a campaign rally. at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2. democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton talking about jobs and the economy in st. louis and noon eastern on c-span. on newsmakers tony perkins, president of the family research council talks about the 2016 presidential race and how evangelicals and conservatives are the candidates for the
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campaign. newsmakers sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> when i tune in on the weekends, usually it is authors sharing their new releases. >> watching nonfiction others on booktv is the best television for serious readers. >> un c-span they can have a longer conversation. >> booktv weekends, they bring you author after author after author and spot like the work of fascinating people. >> i love booktv and diana c-span fan. >> canadian prime minister justin trudeau continued his state visit in washington d.c. at american university where he answered questions from students on canadian politics, trade relations, resettling refugees, and combating bigotry against muslims. this is about 45 minutes. [applause]
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>> thank you for coming out today. i have to admit this is something that matters to me. as much as i could over the past year, i go to universities and high school and colleges and do what i am about to do here. i am very aware this is a place where there's a great tradition of politicians knowing forward and giving important speeches, i am going to try to turn that around a little bit and instead of focusing what the leader has to say to all of view i am interested in hearing from all
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of you what you have to say. because ultimately the work i am doing right now, the work president obama and i did yesterday was not so much focused on the coming months as much as the coming decades. we are focused on your future. in order to stay focused on your future in the right way, that is the only way of building the prosperity we need in this country for the future we need to have coming generations when you look in the big issues of climate change, opportunity for everyone, international engagement, development, security issues is to keep in mind we are doing it for and who will be the ultimate beneficiaries of the decisions. we are an incredibly short term world when it comes to so many
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different aspects of our lives. not being satisfied with a pizza in two minutes, we need it in thirty-second out of the microwave. when we looked as citizens at the political process there's a real instinct to say what have you done for me lately and what you going to do for me right now? the idea of building for the next decade, building for the next generation seems implausible when you look at so much of what politics is all about. is not because people don't want their leaders to be focused on that but largely there is a degree of cynicism about the capacity of the political system itself to effectively deal with ten years out, 20 years out. there is a tendency to want to throw up our hands and say let's just focus on what will help me
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right now and hope that eventually things will work out. unfortunately, that doesn't quite work as much anymore. the pressure we are facing, we actually need to start thinking realistically about the impacts on our actions today, this month, this year, will have five years from now, ten years from now on, 20 years from now--after the current people in power are making decisions. for me, one of the best ways to make sure that thinking is folded into the political process is regular contact and empowerment of young folks like all of you. it is not just about -- people
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talk about this all the time, a need to mobilize young people, to get out and vote. it is more about recognizing that the mind set you bring with you, the openness to change because your lives are all about change from living at home to university to starting a career, finding your own space and starting a family, transformations of your lives that are par for the course, what the reality of this decade you are part of right now, whereas people settling in a career path, mortgage, saving towards retirement are much more set in the status quo. we need you to be thinking and challenging us why we are doing this, why we are not doing this, how we are doing this differently, that means not just
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speaking got but getting involved. and understanding your voices are any essential part of the mix to challenge us to think about your future instead of just our short-term future or a future that is a linear extension of the short-term whereas we know we are going to need to rethink a lot of things. climate change is a great example. what we agreed to in a continental approach yesterday will go a long way toward setting groundwork for understanding most people certainly, this generation get. so you cannot make any more make a choice about what is good for the environment or good for the economy. they go together. kind of future we need is going
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to have to be clean jobs, energy efficiency, renewable resources, renewable energy sources, and that idea of giving up on economic progress so we can protect the environment along tim jackson. it is the only way to build a strong sustainable economy, by cherishing the ecosystem services and natural renewable resources that's underpin everything else we do. making strong commitments, working towards continental energy, these are the things we need to build on, particularly following the success of the paris convention, which people talk about the kind of impact it will have, every country in the world steps up and says we need to do this and be part of it it sends a clear message to citizens and businesses into
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innovators and entrepreneurs that this is the way world is going and we recognize that indeed is a race to see if they are successful and make the most benefit from it because for all the climate change is a very real challenge is also incredible opportunity to rethink how we function and you know fate around how we succeed. on top of that there are many other big issue is we need to deal with. the issue of diversity which is something inert american university and international service expecting to see a broad range of faces, the reality is walked down the street in any city in our country's, you see tremendous diversity of prospective views. we know that mobilization, migration, refugee crises,
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challenges the world is facing is going to mean a greater flow of people across borders living here, settling their, working here, working there. we have to understand that diversity, bringing some challenges with it is tremendous strength, being able to draw on different perspectives, particularly when they are brought together around shared values like the desire to succeed, a willingness to work together, passion, the kinds of values that have created our free democratic society. needs to be something vote we embrace and i understand is the path to success for the world in the 21st century so i am excited to see an extraordinary mix at american university, to know
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this is something this generation gets to a greater degree than previous generations, a place we can lead inert and we need to. more than that, how we continue to engage in big issues around growing our economy, making sure we are creating opportunities for people to succeed, to follow their own potential, to contribute in ways that are different, the model of success, depending on how good grades you got at school you got a good job, you work your way up to vice president, get a gold watch at the end your career, you could make it to the president of the company if he married a boss's daughter. that is the old way of looking at things. right now the career path we are going to have will jump around. is preposterous to think of former snowboard instructor and
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nightclub bouncer could end up prime minister of canada. [applause] >> the experience the we accumulate in multiple career paths and engagements that defined as an shape us are extremely important, and the varied. that is one of the really exciting things for me about this generation and how we are engaging with the world. people have looked a lot at how i personally pull together a team that got elected in canada and particular circumstances, surprise to a lot of people to come from different third-place to win a majority government but a big part of the secret is
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spending a lot of time listening, talking about a feud could take away all the cynicism, design and invent the kind of society, the kind of world you would like to live in, we know it can't happen but if you could imagine the kind you want to live in, what would it look like, we built a platform and approach to politics that reflect what people really express they wanted to see in politics, collaborative, respectful, mindful of each other, drawing on our positive instincts rather than our fear is and divisions which are always very effective in politics in the short term, makes it hard to govern in the long term. we presented that to canadiens. attack ads -- sometimes. we are going to try something different because people are tired of that.
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that leaves us a certain leeway now to continue to try to govern in a way that takes real decisions that sometimes are unpopular but based on science and engage with longer-term vision of how an open society must be. and constantly challenge ourselves to do things differently to improve the way things have been done. quite frankly i couldn't have done it if it hadn't been for the voices and challenges from rooms like this one right across canada and around the world. thank you in advance for your questions and i look forward to engaging with them. [applause]
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>> i am going to alternate back and forth and try to keep my questions and answers short so appreciated you keep your questions short but the more we can get through the better we will be. start going over the microphone. that is pretty much it. if you are still sitting down you are not getting the question unfortunately. we start right here. >> can you he indeed? thank you very much for doing this. great opportunity to talk internationally and be able to connect. mining is lukas colts and, an undergraduate, i always found it interesting the relationship canada has, you have been vocal about this issue, julie wilson
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and the treasury ministry. what have you learned from indigenous people in the u.s.? >> we don't have a lot to teach anyone on how to engage and respect indigenous people in canada. over the past years they have always fallen short. for a country that prides itself on its reasonableness, positive role modeling in the world, we haven't done a very good job over the past generation with the first peoples who have quite frankly never been to canada in february.
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the first colonists, first settlers wouldn't have survived without friendship and guidance and support of people who figured out how to live in this extraordinary place millennia before us. we have an awful lot of work to do to renews that relationship. understanding the we share this land as stewards, knowing as well that as we are rattling as a 21st century society with respect and integration of the economy weaken do worse than brawn cultural teaching and historical knowledge indigenous communities have about how to create proper balance, we have a lot of work to do, but i am serious about doing that and naming as attorney general of
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canada and minister of justice, extraordinary, indigenous, an important step of it. as we look to the high arctic and climate change it was important to me as well to make sure the person responsible for our fisheries and oceans was a strong indigenous voice and introduce the minister of ministries. from the high arctic. >> prime minister, such a pleasure. i am from mexico. i am here to ask you to talk about how do you envision the north american trade agreement? it it is great to have policies
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on climate change which will have to be included in the north american alliance. how is your administration going to tackle that issue and the trilateral relationship? >> i have had wonderful conversations about climate change, continental energy strategy, no question that the continents, mexico to the u.s. to canada working on energy issues and addressing environmental concerns, figuring out how to get things right here will make a significant and not just in global emissions that the narrative we engage with the world on. if we can develop the solutions, developing countries around the world, india, china, the caribbean and pacific island states, we can make a tremendous
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impact if we are going to keep warming under 2 degrees and reach the target of 1.5 degrees, but in order to do that we need to be a lot more collaborative with our neighbors and 3 engaging in a positive way with our partners, making sure irritants like the mexican visa requirement to canada is done away with, collaborating and looking at integration of manufacturing supply chains instead of saying negative either/or, tremendous work to be done in looking forward to bringing together president obama to canada this summer for the north american leaders summit to engage in these issue is. [applause]
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>> thank you, mr. prime minister. really great to see so many in the cabinet. >> i have more seats in my cabinet than anyone else does. >> my question is from yesterday's conversation with president obama, he is being criticized for the rise of the conservative hard-liners, being blamed for his policies. what are your plans to stem a similar rise of right-wing
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conservatives in canada? >> we had an election in the fall, they are repeating themselves a round world certainly in europe with challenges of migrants in the states to a certain extent during primary season. we had a conservative government talking about fear and division as a way of moving forward, talking about barbaric cultural practices if your neighbors were engage in barbaric cultural practices, they could never explain why 911 wasn't an effective line when you see mistreatment and such. there was division around head
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start. a sort of tone of negativity that was very compelling and gained a certain amount of traction. i found canadians in any case find it hard to sustain a anger and fear for very long. we are an optimistic, hopeful people, we know and generally like our neighbors. i meant that we in canada but it applies to the united states too. and having an approach that emphasized any disparate group of people to have conversations you realize things that unite us are greater than things that divide us. that ultimately is what
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democracy keeps moving steadily towards. i have confidence in the american electorate and look forward to working with whoever you elect come november. >> i am a student at the school of communications. my question has a little tinge of humor to it but also the series element. as was asked in the last question a presidential candidate says he would build a border wall with mexico and make some pay for it and we have a lot of americans who say i would leave and go to canada if we elect trump as president. how would you deal with an influx of americans? to canada? would you open your gates to american immigrants or would you build a wall and make america pay for it? >> every election season there are people who swear that if the candidate they don't let gets
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elected they are moving to canada. if over the past decade that has been the case we would have more people in canada than the united states right now instead of being one tenth of your size. it becomes an easy thing to cry out every year. there are canadians who move to the united states, americans moved to canada. that is the nature of our friendship and relationship and to link it to politics is as you point how humorous and a stroke that comes up in election season but the reality is the integration of our country, the work we do together, the engagement on so many issues means there will always the flows back-and-forth. one must never read or be disappointed with that. >> thank you very much. [applause]
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>> thanks for being here. you are an inspiration for many young people like me, graduate student, i have been following canada's economy for personal reasons. in canada in alberta, first question, plan to improve the situation, second question i have two friends who are big fans of canada. by the way, i am happy to advise you. >> stand by the door when i
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leave. the energy sector, the drop in oil prices has hit energy very hard around the world and canada is no exception. one of the challenges is to make sure we are probably diversifying our economy. canada has tremendous natural resources, but i feel our greatest strength is the human resources we apply to the economy and the natural resource sector, the science, the research we are doing to make sure we are always doing better, we are going through a tough time right now. at the same time it gives us an opportunity to rethinking in certain sectors and to ensure when oil prices start to rise again we have taken advantage of this, to make sure we have been located environmental
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responsibilities in terms of how we are engaging in cutting edge, thoughtful way is to get through the years we will still be dependent on fossil fuels', make sure we end up as quickly as possible into a world where you knew -- renewable energy drives the economy. canada needs to be part of it and the oil sector companies are investing massively in solar and wind and geothermal and a broad range of solutions and that is what we have to do. in the meantime a lot of families in alberta in terms of the oil sector of the we're very concerned about, working with them to ensure we can support them through this tough time in ways we will contribute to the economy in coming years. >> i am a grad student studying
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security. can -- canada withdrew the anti isis coalition. your country has decoyed combat advisers can taken on a greater role in humanitarian crisis. what is behind this strategy? >> great question. there are 65 countries in the coalition against isis, it they all have different approaches and areas of expertise and ways of engaging. canada for a couple years, six fighter jets involved in air strikes against ground targets in iraq and syria. we came into office with a pledge to end direct combat portion of our mission and look at the government approach that would demonstrate to canada is very much a strong and engage
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partner in the war, the fight against isil but doing so in a way that suits our best capabilities. countries out there do very well with airstrikes, the gulf states participating in air strikes is a strong piece of legitimacy for those airstrikes because recently in libya, making sure it is not just western forces trying to to fix things in difficult areas is very important. what we shifted to was something canada has extraordinary expertise in, hard earned where we did an awful lot of work training local troops to be more effective in pushing back against the taliban and we will be doing that against isis. we are engaged in more
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intelligence work, more directly in neighboring countries like jordan and lebanon and turkey, receiving in fluxes of migrants fleeing for their lives, we are engaged more in diplomatic levels, it reflects the government's approach that has a chance at success where military engagement is a part of it but is not the sum total of it. it reflects that this is evolving situation. in coming years, there will be different needs and right now making sure local troops have the capacity to be most effective in taking their homes and land and communities is a useful way for canada to help in the immediate but as we look
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towards creating longer-term stability in a troubled region. >> i am a graduate in advocacy. in america it seems a very tense time. a lot of my peers look up to camera, they seem to be happy up there. what is happening? i want to ask about your approach to compassion that an individual level, political levelland government level in regards to diversity. is there a spike in he crimes against muslim americans especially in the last few months, rhetoric is a huge part of that. you welcome 25,000 syrian refugees in your country i would love my country to do the same. what is your approach to addressing the angry, hateful
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people in our country and yours? what is your approach to addressing making a more welcoming community? >> a big part of it is an understanding it is easy to stoke painter or feel angry if you are worried about your next pay check, being able to pay your rent, worried your kids are not going to have the kind of future you would want for them and it is easier to point blame, to say is this person is at fault or that group is at fault and feel satisfied there is a solution in a anchor or pointing out people who are to blame for your misfortune.
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much harder to build a sense of optimism and shared prosperity where we realize it is not zero some game if everyone on your street is doing better, you are all going to do better including you. but we get into this closed in close minded approach when things get difficult, i think one of the responsibilities of leadership is to draw people out of that, to understand countries like ours need people to succeed together or we all fail alone. and that narrative needs to be strong enough and based in getting people at everyday lives
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to counter. once people realize -- there was a proposal by one of our provinces a few years ago to ensure that people working for the government would do so without having religious symbols, cross of data or star of david or christian cross or specifically turban because the state is secular we won't have religious symbols at the kiosk where you pay your parking tickets for example and that was an idea couched in equally. the idea that this is about freeing people from the aggressive yoke of religion and allowing everyone to be equal and religions that forced a particular gender, men to wear a
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turban, will no longer have that dominance over individuals. equality and freedom, people said that is a fairly reasonable thing, we are a free country, that is a reasonable proposal. it was sold that way. until people realize what that meant in reality, a young woman who chose to wear a he shot could be fired from her job working at a counter in the hospital. that is not what we meant at all. and thought about the consequence of things and that proposal is what it needs to be, in order to get to that place, we have to have public discourse that goes beyond the knee-jerk reaction. one of the key elements of that
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and a point that i am so incredibly proud canadian is there was a moment in our election campaign with the governing conservatives in a proposal to strip before the election to remove citizenship from canadian citizens convicted of terrorism. dual citizens in that case. which quite frankly they saw as a great idea, these are people convicted of terrorism against our country, acts of war against our country and they forfeit their rights to the citizens which seems like a reasonable thing, again, on the front of it. when you look at it and realize that means someone convicted of terrorism with pull citizenship could have a different consequence under the law than a canadian homegrown terrorists
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who has canadian citizenship and is a sixth generation canadian and can't have citizenship removed at all. you devalue the citizenship of everyone by making it conditional on good behavior. non heinous behavior which ultimately is the same thing. i found myself in a situation on stage against former prime minister. a man, just stripped the citizenship of for being convicted of a terrorist act, should have his canadian citizenship restored even though he has literally, figuratively, even literally ripped up his canadian passport. yet i stand here as prime minister of canada.
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[applause] >> people are reasonable. people need to understand the rights and freedoms that keep us free and democratic societies are not always easy for knee-jerk adapted to how we would like the world to be. but they are essentials in terms of being the country we are. and whether it is on issues of rights like feminism, women's right to choose or respect for diversity, these i things that are not always easy to have conversations about or require people to step out of their comfort zones. young people have a big job of convincing your parents and the previous generations as much as everything else, the path that has been walked by all
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generations previously at the same time every step of the way. and the us suffragist woman movement and everything else. i have tremendous hope as long as we can keep conversations about our future based on reasonable respectful discussions. and ultimately that is where they end up every time. >> we brought girls' education into it because we appreciate that. my wife can't president obama, michele obama yesterday, and women and girls, they are great examples of strong feminists stepping forward and lots of extraordinary women, standing up
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for women's rights and fighting for it. more men need to do that too. men -- [applause] -- men need to be comfortable calling themselves feminists because it is about fighting for rights and equality and basic respect that we are all opposed. and have to keep updating this one. let's all get with the program. >> time for one last question. >> i am a master's student, tough act to follow. nasa astronaut scott kelly just came back to earth after stunning the world with photography from orbit.
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canada too has a very long tradition of cooperation in space, the least of which has been the canada arm. chris hatfield also stunned audiences worldwide with his performance in outer space. what do you see in terms of a policy, the value of space exploration and the final frontier? >> i like slipping in the final frontier. the fact is science in general is essential. how we innovate, understand the universe, how we dig into the fundamentals of pure science, develop the kinds of solutions, commercialization, innovation to make our lives better in the short term and pro -- surprise
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as in the long term, changes we didn't see coming, these things matter. canada has a long history of cooperation with nasa, a canadian civics professor of mine pointed out nasa astronauts love having canadian scientists because we are really good at building redundancies into things that get sent up. why is that? because of the winter. we know if something will make it through the winter it has to be built solidly. there is an expectation that winter is coming. i didn't make a game of thrones reference. how we engage in pushing the limits of human knowledge, challenging ourselves, understanding our responsibilities as the only place we know of that has sentience life in the universe we have got to make this work.
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what we have from a purely scientific -- on planet earth, and how we bring a little more order to the world's, the chaos that is the universe, we have a responsibility to keep engaging. i have been inspired by a number of extraordinary astronauts and canada's first astronaut mark garn garnot, better to keep the trains running on time than of men who circled the earth and the -- this idea of respect for science engagement, space is an extraordinary example of collaboration between countries around the world, to ensure canadian satellites go up regularly, they used to go up on
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russian rockets. there is an engagement that reminds us as we engage up there is that all of us down here are ultimately extremely interlinked in everything we are and do. i want to thank you all. a [applause] >> thank you for your interest in canada and your engagement with the world. thank you very very much. >> you are welcome here any time. the delegation has departed. thank you so much for being here. [applause]
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