All right, so welcome back to the second half of the Schubert seminar with Nicola Perin telling us about positivity of Grasmani and quantum K theory. Let's go ahead. Okay, thanks. So, so now I start with quantum K series, so I will start with with first case theory.  So K series is another avatar of homology. So now what what you what you do is you look at current shifts on your writing that you look at isomorphism classes of current she's on your variety then you look at the Z module they generate. And you mod out by the relations given by short exact sequences. So if you have a short exact sequence and the middle term is the sum of the two extreme terms. And actually, if you are on a smooth variety, then you can resolve any current shift by locally free shifts. So actually you can replace the fact that you were working with current shifts with working with locally free shifts, which is sometimes more convenient, sometimes not depends what you want to do. But but this is still it's still very convenient to have these two possibilities when you have a smooth writing. And know that you have this this group, you can define several things on this group so you can define you can define some which is just given by by the direct sum. Okay, and you can define the product. So yeah, I define the product for only for classes of vector bundles. So then in that case, the product is just given by the tensor product. And if you want to define the product on classes of query on shift, you have to you have to use the right function. So you have to use tor tor functions, but it's it's just just doing the same with resolutions. Okay, what you also have to replace like the degree of intersection in in Comology is the degree in care theory, which is just given by by this integration formula. It's just alternating some on the dimension of the Comology group of your of your current shift. Okay, and once you have this, you can define the you can define the duality because then you can you can do the product and compute the degree. So I will talk about duality right after. And this this case here is is for tutorials, you can define pullbacks. For example, on local if you shift, you just take you just have usual pullbacks, and you can define push forwards. So for push forwards, having a local if you shift is is not helpful, but having current shift that it's useful. It's if you have a proper map, then you can just define the push forward by alternating. Okay, so I forgot some signs. There should be some some signs. So you want to to have alternating sums on on push forward. So also this is like really very similar to what you have in Comology is likely is likely more is likely more precise. And especially you can you can again use Schubert varieties or Schubert variety or opposite Schubert variety with same convention indices for Schubert varieties, exponent for opposite ones and then define their their classes. So they are current shifts or you result them and you get you get Schubert classes in K theory. And these Schubert classes, they form basis of the case here. The slight difference with with Comology here is that the Schubert bases are not open are not dual for the intersection. So so you have to you have to do some perturbation because because K theory is really not only viewing what's happening at just the zero level of intersection. It also sees everything what is in in higher dimension. So if you have two varieties, which do intersect, for example, if you have two Schubert varieties in and so Schubert variety and an opposite Schubert variety, their intersection will be either empty or will be a nice variety, which is called the Richardson variety, which is rational. And therefore, if you compute its degree, you will you will get that the product, the product and then the degree is always equal to one. So so you will not have that Schubert varieties and opposite Schubert varieties are in duality for for this intersection. You need to remove the boundary terms which are coming from the smaller Schubert varieties in in your Schubert variety. And therefore the duality is given with the ideas of the boundary of the Schubert variety. I will I will I won't need this much, but this is really an illustration of the fact that K theory really sees more geometry. And this will be reflected also in the in the quantum definition. Okay, so this is this is K series. So you have dual basis. And so I prepared the also a small example if you if you look like a three dimensional quadric. You again want to compute the product of two hyper hyper plane classes. We just have these three dimensional quadric to hyper plane classes when you do the intersection, the intersection will, if they are in general position will really be the class in K series. So this intersection is a quadric, sorry, a conic of dimension one, so a smooth conic. But then you want to express the smooth conic in terms of the Schubert classes and the smooth conic is not a Schubert variety. So what you do is you deform this conic to the union of two lines. So there is a there is a one parameter family of conics with the union of two lines. And once you look at this union of two lines, you have a nice exact sequence which for which you have the sum of the structure of shift of the two lines which maps to the intersection point. And the union of the two lines in their meeting is exactly the kernel of this map. So what you get is that the class of a conic is just twice the class of a line minus the intersection point because these are really two lines, but minus the point because you have to count the intersection point only once. Okay, so this is an example of what's happening in K series, classical K series. And we want to do the same as before, but using K series instead of commology. Okay, so the naive, the naive try is really you do the same. So you extend the definition of K series to quantum K series by tensor product with a power series in, in Q. Okay, you're, you're viable. And then you define the product as before.  Okay, so when you do this, the problem that you don't get something which is associative. Okay, so you don't really see why because I didn't really explain how you get associativity in quantum co-mology. But associativity in quantum co-mology comes from, from these very nice sub varieties in the modular space which are given by curve with two irreducible components in the source. And then using that you can, you can prove some by induction. You can prove that there are some very nice combinatorial properties and formulas which induce the fact that the product is associative. When you do that in K theory, the problem is that K theory is seeing more than co-mology and you don't only see what's happening in the right dimension. You should also see the geometry in, in higher co-dimension. And the fact that, for example, the classes of sub varieties, so the classes of stable maps which have non-reduced source, they do meet. And you have to take into account the fact that if you have sources with D1 and D2 and then sources with D1 prime and D2 prime, when you intersect these two, then you are going to get some intersection that you have to take into account. So this is, this is not associative because of, of that. And you have to, you have to correct the, the product and to do it, you have to take, to take care of all these maps which degenerate, so which have a source which is degenerate. So I keep the notation for, for the group. The group is, is fine. Only the product have to be corrected. And to correct the product, you, you have to look at all possible sequences of effective classes of curves. Okay, so I look at the sequence which has R plus one terms with a first term which is D0, which will be some of the main term. And then a tail which will be of degree D1 to the R. And so I have to assume that the, the sum of all this degree is D to, to be in my moduli space. And I look inside the moduli space, the locus of, of chains of irreducible curves, which are all rational. So I forgot to say rational, but they all have to be rational. So you look at chains of irreducible curves, C0 up to C2, they just meet in one point of the only chance. And the degree of the component C0 is D0 or the degree of the map on that component is D0 up to the component of the last one is the air. So that's, that's what you look and you want that the first two mark points are on the first component and the last one on the last component. So you have a chain, you look at all these possible chains and you take the closure in the moduli space. So of course in that, in that sub variety, you don't only have chains with R plus one components, you may have like much more components, but the general element is of this form. Okay, and you have to take into account all these sub varieties in the moduli space to compute the product. So what you do is you define the product again using the quantum parameter and the term in degree D is a very big thumb. Over all possible decomposition of the degree D in terms of chains of curves of degree D0 up to the air so that the sum is D. And then when you put a one, when you have a irreducible curve, and then you put a minus one, when you have two irreducible source with two components, and then you put a minus two to the minus one to the square when you have three components and so on. So we have alternating signs. And what you do is you just pull back the two classes, you multiply on that, you multiply these two classes and you restrict to this sub variety of curves with chains of degree D0 up to the air. Once you did that, you push forward and you get a class in the k-series of the variety and you sum with signs all these classes. So that's the definition of the product and the main result of the series due to give and tell, at least for homogenous spaces, is that this product is commutative, which is obvious, and associative, which is really the part of the story. Okay, so you get this new product and really what you have to do is just taking into account the fact that these boundary devices in the modular space are meeting. Okay, and again, again, if you look at the case where there is no quantum parameter, so the degree is zero, then what you are doing is just your modular space is X itself and you are doing nothing else than pulling back and pushing forward by identity.  So these are basic stuff on k-series or quantum k-series. So k-series or quantum k-series are just filtered by dimension. And if you look at the associated graded algebra, then you get back either comology or quantum comology. So the graded algebra associated to quantum k-series is quantum comology. So this is a finer refinement of quantum comology. And what this means is just that the leading term in quantum k-series is the quantum comology term. Okay, so here are some examples. I'm not going to explain the computation because you need more geometry to do the computation, especially in this very special example. So I chose the example of the quadratic because here you see that, okay, if you look at comology and quantum comology, there is nothing happening. So these two are explained. So the intersection of two hyperplane sections in the quadratic of dimension three are just giving a conic. And this is also what you get in quantum comology, nothing else than classical comology. So there is no quantum deformation here. While in k-series, we have seen that this is twice the line minus the intersection point. And if you go to quantum k-series, then actually you see that you have more terms than what's happened in quantum comology. So this is something which will not happen in Grassmannians, but which may happen in general, is that you have no q-term in the comology, but you do have q-terms in k-series. So I will at least say later on that this is not happening for the quantum k-theory of Grassmannians, meaning that the q-terms in the quantum comology and in quantum k-theory are always the same. But it's not true in general. And you see the quadratic is a quite simple example, but still it's not true. Okay, and then when you have quantum comology or quantum k-series, so for quantum comology we have seen several properties. And you may ask, are these properties of quantum comology still true for quantum k-theory? So the first question you can ask is whether the sum in the definition, which is a huge sum with lots of terms, whether this is still finite. So it's absolutely not obvious that this sum is finite a priori because there are infinitely many terms which are non-zero. But actually the sum is finite, so this was proved quite recently, and the sum is finite and it's because there are lots of cancelling in these alternating sums. So there are lots of plus one minus one which cancel out. So the sum is finite, you can do the definition of a polynomial and not only power series. And so the question I want to talk about is positivity. So if you write quantum k-theory product in the basis, in the fabric basis, so this is a fabric basis also because if you look in comology and you look at effective classes, then for homogenous spaces all the effective classes form very nice monoids and they are generated by Schubert classes. So any effective class is a non-negative linear combination of Schubert classes. Schubert classes are really the basis you want to look at when doing geometry. And if you do this product in Schubert classes, you expand, so you get lots of coefficients. And the conjecture is the following one, so this formula might look complicated, but it's easy to explain. So this statement is in quantum comology, so you can obviously this statement tells you something already in classical k-theory if you take d equals to zero. And this statement, this conjecture is a theorem in classical k-theory, was proved by Breon. So Breon proved that this positivity assertion holds. So what is this positivity assertion? So the conjecture, it simply means that if you start to do the product, since it is filtered by dimension, the first term is always a term in comology. So in quantum comology or if you are in classical k-theory, it's a classical comology term. So this term, we already know that it is non-negative because it's an innumerative count. So this term is always non-negative and then the signs are supposed to change each time you go in higher co-dimension. So that's what this conjecture says. So in the example of the three-dimensional quadric, the product of two hyperplane classes, you start with this classical comology term, which has a two, so it's the class of the conic. And then even in classical k-theory, you see that you have one more term with a sign, so the sign changes. And then if you go in quantum k-theory, then q has the same degree as a point. So these two have the same degree, so they have the same sign. And then you can go in higher degree and you get a plus sign. And this goes on until the end. So that's the conjecture. And now I want to... Nicolás? Yes? In the statement of the conjecture, maybe you said it, but is that some of the links or the product of the links? Yeah, it's the same, actually. It's the same parity? It's the same, but it's shorter. But it's the same. But this is again under as willing to write things as short as possible. So at the end, it's the same as the sum. I don't think it's the same. It's the same if you put them inside the parenthesis. If you put... If you put u, v and w, if you take the product of the group elements. Oh, okay. That sounds better. So that's my mistake. And under this version is correct. Sorry. Okay, thanks. Sorry, can I ask back in the definition of quantum k? So you weren't taking the whole modular space, just the closure of this chain subset? Yeah. And what's something that's not in that closure? I'm confused because this chain case includes there being one curve, right? Well, the one curve is when air is equal to zero. Indeed, you have this one curve here. So you do it for all the compositions. So the first term in the sum is the case where you have a new decibel curve. So that's the leading term. It's going to be the quantum comb or g term somehow. Not really, but it's the leading term. And then you have to correct by terms where you forget about curve which are irreducible. Like if you have a chain of a curve which is of the grid D minus one and a line. This will not contain irreducible curve in its closure. I see, I see. Okay, I got it. And then you have to count these ones also. And then again, you have to count those which decompose more and more. I see. You see, you are doing the intersection. And then you restrict this intersection to that special sub-variety in the modular space. And you have to compute, you have to compute the Euler characteristic there. Or you have to push forward this sub-variety of chains of curves. So the first one is meeting the two sub-varities you are starting with. And the last one is going somewhere. And you are somehow looking at where it's going. It's a bit more than where it's going. But more or less it's where it's going. So where is the third point in such a chain where the first component is meeting two given opposite trope varieties? Can I think of it as if I used the structure sheaf on the modular space, I would get the wrong answer. And this is a way of correcting it to the class of some different fundamental K-class on the modular space? Yeah, yeah. So I think of it as when I try to prove associativity, then what I want to do is to decompose curves to do some induction. And when I do that, when I do that in comology, what I'm doing is just I see the two... So if I have two possible decomposition, then these two are divisor in the modular space or sub-varities in the modular space. And when I do the computation, the formal computation in comology, what I do is I do as if these two varieties were not intersecting. And the problem is in K-theory these two are intersecting. So when I do this, when I do as if they were not intersecting, I am replacing the... As for lines, the conic given by the union of two lines by two disjoint lines. And this is fine in comology, but this is not fine anymore in K-theory, so you have to correct that. And so that's my way of doing this. Okay, I think I got it. Thanks. Okay, so that's where I was. And I want to explain the results, but the results, this is easy. So the results is that this conjecture holds true for grass manians and actually a bit more. There are a few more cases where the conjecture is known. So for all minuscule spaces, so for example, the three-dimensional quadric is not a minuscule space, but it also holds for all-dimensional quadrics, which are not minuscule spaces. This is because we can do all computation by hand some more for all-dimensional quadrics. This is simple enough as I explained in the case of three-dimensional quadric. And so these results on minuscule and all-dimensional quadric, they're all in the same paper with Anders, Pierre-Manuel and Leonardo. There's a question. No, no, it was just me having a comment. Thanks. It's all good. And then there are two more cases which are not minuscule or co-minuscule anymore. So the first one was put by Rosset and Weyong-Chu for the incidence point hyperplane in the projective space. So again, you have this positive conjecture and lots of nice combinatorial formulas. And very recently, I put with Vladimir Benedetti and Weyong-Chu again that this also holds for isotropic grass mania of lines in the symplectic space. So these two are adjoint or co-adjoint varieties that are still very, very simple homogeneous spaces. Okay. So this is what we know for the moment. And now I'm going to try to explain a bit how you can prove this. So I have a few more minutes to do that. So let's try. Okay. I want to go deeper into the definition. So the first thing I want to do is to reinterpret the definition more geometrically so that really you start to understand a bit better of what's going on. So the first thing you do is you forget about the fact that you have to sum on degrees. So you focus on the degree D case. Okay. So you look at the term in degree D. So that's this part that I'm going to write a product in degree D. Okay. So this is a big sum of all the composition of D in terms of a sum of smaller degrees. So here I'm in a grass mania. So these are just integers. So I have this big sum, which is an alternating sum of classes in k theory, which are really like products for the moment. So I want to to interpret this class as a variety. So what you do is you look at this modular space. You look at the inverse image by the evaluation map of the first true but variety the inverse image by the second evaluation map of the second true but variety. MDXUXV. This is really the set of all stable maps with three markpoints where the first markpoint is in one true but variety and the second markpoint is in the opposite. So you have you are joining these two opposite super varieties by curves of degree D. Okay. And then you can do the same, but instead of just having curves of degree D, you, you, you look at chains of curve of degree D zero to the air. So you fix the composition and you do the same. So you have the two super varieties and you want to join them by chains. Okay. So it's not, it's not exactly joining them by chains. You have to be careful. So what, what you ask is that the first term of the chain is joining the two super varieties and then the tail is going somewhere else. Okay. So for example, if you start with the first degree zero, then you fix a point in the intersection and you look at points in the tail, in, in a curve of, in a tail of degree D one to the air, which are starting from the intersection of your two super varieties. So this is, this is one, one situation. So at all these varieties and a general statement. Well, again, this is again a variation on, on Climans-Versality. It implies that the, the key theory class you want to compute, which is this product is actually a geometric class. It's just given by the, the structure or sheaf of this sub variety in the variety of stable maps or of all stable maps with sources. Given by this decomposition, where the first component is passing through the first two bed variety and the opposite one. This is very geometric. And so this replaces this big sum by another big sum. But now you have only one geometric object. This is this modular space of chains. And you have to compute the push forward by the third evaluation map. The push forward maps these curves to the third point, which is the locus of all points wiped by all these kind of curves with chain of curves with first one meeting the first two super varieties. Okay, so this is the first reduction formula, which is, which is rather easy.  You want, you want either to compute the push forward by the evaluation map. If you remember, so these classes are just pushed forward of some variety by an evaluation map. So you want either to compute this class or to say something about about this class and to say that it has some positivity properties. So I will use two statements. The first one is a statement by Kola, which says that if you have a proper map, which is subjective from Y to Z, such that the general fiber is commonly clear trivial. So all the communities are zero except for degrees zero. And if the two varieties have rational singularities, then the push forward of the structure ship of the top one is the structure ship of the image. Okay, so this, if you have this, this situation to the evaluation map we had before, then it's just mean that the push forward we are looking for is simply the structure ship of the image, which is the locus of all these points by these, by these curves. And the second statement, which is, which is a statement, which the brilliant used to prove the positivity in classical case theory, is that if you have a birational map into a homogeneous space. So this year, this axis, the homogeneous space we are working with. And if you have such a birational map where, where the source variety is nice enough. So for example, it's going my colleague with rational singularities. I think my colleague is enough. Then actually, if you expand is the class of the push forward, it's going to be, well, you, at least you're going to, you're going to have some positivity properties. So you're going to know the science. Okay, so this is a, this is a positivity property. But this is, this is what you would do. Then if you want to do the intersection in case theory, you just look at intersection of two super varieties, you get the Richardson variety, you do the push forward of the Richardson variety, which is just inclusion. And you get the expansion and expansion as alternating science. So that's the proof of brilliant when we want to use it in our situation. So this gives you two ways of computing the push forward. Either you don't compute the push forward, but you get positivity. If you have this birational map. And if you don't understand, for example, if you don't know that the image is as rational singularities. Or you know the image as rational singularities and you're able to really compute the class of the push forward. Okay, so I don't know how much time do I have. Yeah, you can go a few more minutes, maybe five minutes. Let's see, let's see. I try. So, so, so few more reductions. So we want to we want to compute this system. So this is this is thus an alternating sum of push forwards. Okay, so, so this alternating sum as I was saying, so you want to look at the evaluation map. So you want to understand this map. So this map is is is just you look at the stable maps and you do the third evaluation. So this is just a set of points which are on a tail of curves of this form. Okay, and the expectation. This is not true for the expectation. Okay, the first the first part is true. That's what I explained. This is this is like a climate. And then what if you if you want to apply color serum than the expectation. If this map as for example, general fiber, which are comodically trivial, then the expectation is that the push for the class of the push forward will be the push forward the class of the image. So it will be the class of these lockers of points in the variety, which are covered by these curves, this chain of curves. Okay, so, so actually what you can you can prove is is the following. So this is a first simplification which which is not always who but which works in any situation is that you can you can simplify a lot. The very big sum which is at the top in terms of a sum is only two terms. So what I wanted that using color serum is if you know that as soon as two points are connected by a rational curve of the greedy then it is connected by a chain of lines. So this means that any two points which are connected by some curve of the greedy they can be connected by any kind of chain. That's what this means. Then actually in the in the very big sum is very big alternating some only two terms remain the first two terms. So the curves with only one irreducible component and the curve with two irreducible components one of the great D minus one and the tail of the green one. And the reason why is that actually the the target. So so you can always replace the modulus space push forward by by the image, the image with always be the same because the image will not depend on the form of the tail. And then if you look at the possible tails, let's say we have a tail of degree two, then you will have a plus one for tails which are given by a conic. And then you will have a minus one for a chain of two lines. These two terms will be the same they will cancel. If you have a tail of degrees three, then you have an irreducible curve of degrees three, you have two curves of degree one and two and two and one. So there are two minus ones. And then you have one more term with the chain of three lines, which is a plus one.  So so doing that you you you see easily that this is this is formal computation. Actually, only these two terms are left if the geometry of your variety is nice enough. So any two points connected by a curve of degree is connected by a chain of the lines. This simplifies a lot the description of the formula and you only have two terms. So we want to understand these two terms. Okay, so I finish with the key statements. So we have these two terms and we want to understand whether they are positive or not. So you look at the evaluation maps. So here they shouldn't be an underline. So there is one one evaluation map for irreducible curves and one evaluation maps for a curve with two terms, a curve of degree D minus one and one. Okay, and what what we can prove is the following. This is a general general statement. This is the main state main technical statement. So the first thing is that if the evaluation map, the evaluation map with irreducible source is barational, then the same is true for the evaluation map with curves with two with two irreducible components. And the image of curves with two irreducible components, because it has to be it has to be smaller because the two maps are birational and and curves with irreducible source of co-dimension one in the in the modular space. Then what you get is that the image is also of co-dimension one. So the the fibers being being of the same dimension, you get that these two are different but with respecting co-dimension. Okay, so these these are always birational so you can use brilliant and you can compute the science. And you see the science of gamma D will be given by brilliant and the science of gamma D minus one one will be also given by brilliant. They will be opposite because they are in co-dimension one but because of the minus sign in the formula where they will compensate and add together to get positivity. So this will will give positivity in the case where the map is birational. And if the map is not birational, then actually both maps are not birational and both maps are have ecologically trivial fibers. So to compute the images you just look at the images. But because you have maps with fiber of infinite dimension, in the case of irreducible sources, you have an irreducible an infinite family of irreducible sources. And then doing a bed and break, you get that in the limit. In that family you have curves of degree D minus one one. So the images are the same and therefore the two terms are concealing out and there is nothing. So either you are birational and you get positivity or you have nothing so you get the you get the result. And actually what you get even in this situation is that because quantum homology has no term, if the map is not birational you get that the quantum terms appearing are exactly the same in quantum k theory and in quantum homology. Okay, I think it's time to stop. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much for a beautiful talk.


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And to make sure that people and communities continue to receive timely and accurate information in the face of changing weather, the province is expanding the River Forecast Centre and floodplain mapping program. In all, more than $2.1 billion is going to help people on the ground recover and prepare now. To help communities rebuild stronger so they are better protected against future climate disasters and to make critical investments in our public safety infrastructure response. To do this, $1.5 billion in new funding will be invested over the next three years to support the province's ongoing response and recovery efforts, including rebuilding more resilient infrastructure. This includes contingencies over the next three years to support those people, businesses and communities that have been impacted due to recent disasters. With this, we will be able to improve our supports for those impacted by floods as the needs become better known. We know that people who are applying for disaster assistance need this money as soon as possible. This past fall, environments in climate change Canada describe the flooding we have experienced as a once in a century event. As testament to this, a record-breaking impact on people who have applied for disaster financial assistance. Within a one-week period, we receive three times more applications than we usually receive in an entire year. While the claims are being processed and this money is getting to people, we need to be nimble. And with budget 2022, we are making investments to make this happen. We are strengthening our ability to protect public safety and transforming emergency management BC, adding more staff to improve capacity to support communities. We are also implementing a historic investment into the community emergency preparedness fund. Up until this budget, our government contributed $77 million to this invaluable program. I am proud of the work our government has funded over the years. I am now very pleased to report that this budget allocates an additional $110 million to support communities and First Nations in funding things such as the health and safety of the community. We are also implementing a historic investment into the community emergency preparedness fund. We are also implementing things such as evacuation route planning, structural flood mitigation, volunteer fire department equipment and training, indigenous cultural safety training, flood risk assessments and emergency operations center training and supports. This program has been key to supporting First Nations and local government preparedness needs since its inception. And this record investment is going to really move the needle on emergency preparedness in the province. It is also important to note that the challenges we faced over the recent pandemic, the consecutive wildfires and flooding events and the COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionately impacted indigenous communities. And it is critical that we work side by side in partnership with First Nations to advance reconciliation by improving emergency management supports. First Nations will benefit from the record investment that this budget makes to community emergency preparedness fund as well as an additional $10 million allocated to begin to address the needs of indigenous communities. This means in total $120 million is being allocated to support both First Nations and local governments in realizing their emergency preparedness goals. With budget 2022, we are taking aggressive action to protect public safety. We are working to help people on the ground recover and we are helping communities to rebuild stronger so they are better prepared in the future. I would like to now pass it to Katrina Conroy, Minister of Forest Lands, Natural Resource Operations and the Department of Forestry. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Farners. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us here today and I too would like to recognize the indigenous nations on whose traditional territory we are gathered. I am pleased to be speaking to you from the territory of the Lekwungen speaking people, the Sonhees and Esquimalt Nations. Along with my colleagues here, I am really pleased to talk about the latest unprecedented wildfires the last couple of years have been challenging for many British Columbians. This past fire season, the Premier and I flew over fire ravaged landscapes and visited impacted communities. We saw Lytton and spoke to the devastated residents and wildfire professionals. Some of those professionals had lost their homes and while still fighting other fires and yet they continue to go out and to the front lines and fight the fires to protect people. They spoke to us about the need for wildfire mitigation and who better to do that work than the professional firefighters themselves. Those people who understand the need for wildfire mitigation. We witnessed first hand what adaption during challenging and devastating conditions look like and the countless examples of resiliency, compassion, and a strong spirit of community and pulling together. I toured fire camps, talked to the incredible people who were sent out to fight those fires, people from all across the province as well as support from other provinces and countries. I saw the devastation at Monty Lake and Paxton Valley, toured the Okanagan and Indian Band with Chief Lewis and not only saw the destruction of his nation but also saw the benefits of cultural burning and saw first hand how the fire smart program works when we met with the folks at Logan Lake and flew over their community. We know that climate change is contributing to drier and hotter summers resulting in extended wildfire seasons and it's highly likely that this trend will continue. We have seen the worst wildfire seasons on record in BC that have occurred all in the past five years.  This is why our government is making significant investments to transform the BC wildfire service into a year round service and shift from a reactive to a proactive approach. As part of budget 2022 we are providing $145 million in new funding over three years that will strengthen BC's emergency management and wildfire services. These investments will allow BC wildfire service to work on all four pillars of emergency management, prevention and mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. An additional $98 million over the fiscal plan will fund wildfire prevention work and maintain crucial forest service roads used to respond to forest fires. Budget 2022 also provides $90 million in community grants for the fire smart program to help make homes and communities safer from wildfire risk. These investments are about people and our plan to support communities as we cope with the ongoing impacts of climate change. By transforming the BC wildfire service into a proactive year round service we are working to help people on the ground better prepare for and recover for future wildfires. Thank you. I would now like to introduce the Minister of Environment, Minister George Heyman. Thank you very much, Minister Conroy and I also want to acknowledge that I am on the traditional territories of the Asquimote and Songhees First Nations. As my colleagues have all said last summer delivered a devastating message and I want to thank the devastation that so many people felt who lost their homes, lost their communities, lost their livestock and lost economic stability. And I want to thank them and all British Columbians who had each other's back who stood together to support each other through an extremely difficult time. The message is absolutely clear. We are not waiting another decade or two to see the impacts of climate change. In ways we have never experienced it before and I think we all know that we can expect to experience even more of that in the coming years. And that's why it's so important that the investments in budget 2022 speak to the urgency with which our government takes this challenge and our need to act. We need to protect people and communities from climate fuel disasters. We need to help communities build back stronger and with more resiliency from the past year. And that's why we have a total of more than $2.1 billion dedicated to that. But we also know we need to expand our ability to plan for the future to address the potential impacts of climate change. It's not enough to react. We need to be able to predict. We need to be able to prepare and we need to be able to invest. Planning starts with good data, with good information. That's what will inform the right actions. The climate preparedness and adaptation strategy developed through my ministry in cooperation with other ministries across government has been out for public discussion. We had an initial investment in the last budget and we will be building on both science and indigenous knowledge to implement the strategy which will be announced in the coming months. Knowledge systems will continue to drive decision making so that we can better anticipate where we need to take stronger action to protect people, to protect people's homes and to protect their communities as well as the lives they lead. That's why budget 2022 has the most significant investments to fight the climate crisis that this province has ever seen. Among the measures of the climate preparedness and adaptation strategy which as I mentioned will be released shortly will be expanded climate monitoring networks. New equipment in the field monitoring stream flows, groundwater, snowpack to help us improve our planning for future climate impacts. There will be new climate resilience initiatives with local and indigenous governments. There will be an extreme impact on the future of our framework so that should there be a future heat dome, should there be future increased temperatures that our communities are better able and set up to support our people and there will be an expanded river forecast center and provincial flood plain mapping program. Investments in healthy watersheds which began last year as part of our stronger budget included in this year's budget because we know that investing in watershed rehabilitation helps protect us from flooding and helps protect the ecosystems on which so much of our economy depends. It also provides important employment and engagement for indigenous youth and others. This is a very substantial response and it underlines the need we feel to prepare now to invest in the measures we know that we need to take to ensure that British Columbians know that they have a more secure future to ensure that British Columbians know that their government is planning for that future. Not only to invest in measures to reduce our impacts on climate change but to acknowledge that it is here, its impact will be felt for years and we need to protect people, communities, our economy and our province. Thank you, Minister Robinson. I want to thank my colleagues. We are making strong investments to build back better from recent disasters and ensure people and communities are protected from climate-related events. In moments of crisis the BC wildfire service and emergency management BC have been unwavering in their response and we owe them our thanks and so much more. No single community should have to rebuild or move forward on its own. We are in this together and as a government we are committed to ensuring people and communities have the resources that they need to face this challenge not just for today but for years to come. We need to do this to protect people and communities right across the province. Thank you for being here with us today and we are happy to take your questions and have colleagues here to help answer them. A reminder to reporters on the line please press star 1 to enter the queue. You will be limited to one question and one follow-up. Our first question today comes from Jiao Zhu, Globe and Mail. Thanks for taking my question. Some of the people remain displaced and their homes both from BC and the money from Ottawa has promised flow so that they can rebuild and return home. Thank you for the question. That process is already underway in a number of communities that have been impacted by floods and fires. We have had assessors out to assess the damage on individual properties and then been working with them in order to determine the eligibility and the funding that they will require and so that work is ongoing. Jiao, do you have a follow-up? Yes, I do. Your budget promise is more money for climate monitoring and extreme heat response plan. Will those measures be in place before the summer? Thank you. It's an important question. As I mentioned, we have $83 million in this year's budget for the climate preparedness and adaptation strategy and we will be kicking that off later, a late winter, early spring, setting up the networks that we need to do that monitoring and preparation. It will be ongoing. It will obviously not all be in place in order to take the data and make some of the predictions that we would all hope we would have for the summer, but it is a critical piece of being prepared for the years to come. Next question comes from Richard Zussman, Global News. This is from Minister Farnworth. ICBC has provided some data around COVID-19 related tickets. It shows just over a quarter of the fines have been paid. Does this send a message to British Columbians that broke COVID-19 laws that there are largely or no repercussions considering that so many of those tickets have not been paid? Absolutely not. We want to be clear and we were clear when we made the announcements in terms of the COVID-19 tickets that when 30 days have passed and you have not disputed the ticket then it will be sent to a collection agency. On top of that we know that a significant number of the tickets are in fact being disputed and I would also add the following point that at the end of the day when you go to renew your ICBC insurance you have to pay the fine. And so those tickets will be paid it may take a little time but they will be paid. Richard, do you have a follow-up? Some of the charges have also been stayed. Some of the more significant ones link to religious gatherings that at the time was a slap in the face of the policies that have been put in place by government. Are you, what do you think of these decisions being stayed and considering we are working our way in the tail end of the pandemic is the thought that more of these could be stayed as some experts have indicated? Whenever there is an investigation that is done by the police and whether a ticket is issued it is potentially it can be disputed and decisions around staying are not made by ICBC they are not made by me they would be addressed when issues have been placed by out of the attorney general's ministry but when tickets are issued we fully expect that if they are not disputed you are going to have to pay the fine and as I said if your insurance is up for renewal you are going to have to pay that fine and of course when they are disputed they will go through the court process and that is handled by the ministry of the attorney general Next question comes from Lisa Cordasco, Vancouver Sun Thank you very much I would like to go back to the discussion about the displacement of people Minister, the best you have to offer is that you are doing an assessment now these people have been out of their homes from between six to eight months is there nothing further you can offer them about when they might see a return? Absolutely First part of the answer then I was expecting a supplemental which was actually on a different topic there has been a significant amount of work in terms of people returning home as we know in the case of Merritt the vast majority of people have returned home as I said earlier the homes are assessed and at one point we had over 7,000 people out of their homes the homes have been assessed by green, yellow and red so they are able to be inhabited and obviously the ones that are green you can go back to the assessment on those that are done that were yellow people are able to return they may require some additional repair or cleaning those are by and large we are now getting to the ones where there are those that have the home is uninhabitable for example they are in accommodation and will continue to be supported through the red cross until such time as they are able to return home and what is critical in that of course is getting a proper assessment getting the money out the door for those individuals we want the back as quickly as possible but the key element of course is ensuring that the supports are in place and they know those supports are going to be there and they are and will continue to be in place thank you for that minister I would like to ask a general question about the climate preparedness strategy that is we will see soon critics have said that the whole clean BC program is kind of an industry greening initiative that are for really greenwashing the fracked gas industry and I'm wondering about what you said about fossil fuel development why in BC are we embarking on the growth of an LNG industry at the same time that we are seeing the effects of climate change and you are trying to spend and you are going to have to spend all this money to try to mitigate and prevent climate disasters thank you very much for the question we are in the midst of a very significant transition and British Columbia frankly is a leader in that transition on the continent but we know we have much more to do what some people call support for a gas industry is part of responding to the call of our climate solutions council which includes climate experts and environmental leaders as well as people from industry to ensure that as we transition we support people and we support jobs in a mission intensive trade exposed industries and we are making a portion of the carbon tax paid by industry and we are rewarding those industries that are world leading in terms of reducing emissions and we are joining with others and making significant capital investments to drive down their emissions in industries like pulp and paper like mining like forestry and yes in the gas industry which still supplies gas that many British Columbians rely on and we are working on this and there is a lot of simplification the factory means that we still have people in British Columbia and elsewhere relying on that sector and our program clean BC program for industry was recognized in Glasgow with an award as the most creative government climate program among over 126 regional and sub national governments and we are proud of the way We're proud of the clean BC program and yes, we acknowledge that we're in a crisis and we all have much more to do and that's why we're tweaking and updating the program every chance we get and where we see the opportunity to do more, we push hard to do that. The next question comes from Chad class and CFJC TV Kamloops. Thanks guys for taking my question. This is the question for Minister Conroy perhaps Minister Far North as well. I'm wanting to get a better picture of what a year round BC wildfire service will look like. Minister Conroy I know you sort of touched on some of the details, $90 million for our smart programs among other things. Sounds like it's going to be maybe a combined effort between the wildfire service and local communities. Can you give me a little more insight into what exactly that will look like? I certainly can and want to acknowledge that Kamloops is actually the home of the BC wildfire service. We are going to be able to have people working at centres year round, people that are going to be able to not only look to do the wildfire work during the wildfire season but actually able to do the mitigation and who better than firefighters who know what they need to do when it comes to mitigation. They will be working with communities, you're right, there's $90 million there for communities, indigenous nations across this province so that they can engage in the effects of that program at, for instance, at Logan Lake as I mentioned and we saw the fire where it came up to Logan Lake and then it just moved away from the community because of the work that they had done, the mitigation that they had done and we want to see that in communities right across the province so this money will ensure that we have people working year round, that we have people that will be able to go out and work with communities, work with communities, work with communities and we saw the fire yesterday or this morning. Actually a report came out from the UN that said one of the ways that countries around the world have to deal with wildfires is have mitigation so that there is an annual mitigation and that's exactly what we're doing so we're moving in the right direction, we're going to be able to help communities across this province. The wildfire people, the folks are extremely excited about it because it's going to be a great time for us to talk about the wildfire that we're going to be talking about. Another question for you and anyone else that wants to chime in, one of the camels MLA, Todd Stone told me yesterday and this is a long-winded question. He feels that the NDP has thrown up the white flag and turned its back on the forest industry specifically with your old growth logging policy, mills in the woods, they might be completely out of wood in the next three weeks because they saw the reliant old growth to make their product, minister Conroy and others, but seems pretty grave what your response to all that. My response, especially to minister Stone, is I wish the minister 10 years ago had taken the initiatives that needed to be taken to deal with the issues that we're facing today. There was a report that came out in 2015 that said about the repercussions that we've dealt with and the minister of the day ignored that report and did nothing. I will not be sitting here 10 years from now or wherever I'll be 10 years from now saying I wish that I had done something. We have to do something so that we not only have a forest industry for generations to come, we have forests for generations to come. We are looking at ensuring that we protect the oldest and the most ancient forest, the most vulnerable forest in our country, and we are working with those indigenous nations and sharing with those nations on whose traditional territories these forests lie, that sharing fair that has not been done for years, so sharing with those indigenous nations and also looking at ways that we can work with communities to ensure that they are also, and workers are also getting fair value from the forest industry, we are working with the industry, we are working with workers and communities to ensure that anybody who is affected by the forest industry is well aware of bridging to retirement, we have had many people that have come forward and said they want a bridge to retirement so that younger people can continue to work and that is working. We are looking at supports to communities that could be affected by this. We are doing considerable dollars, well over $200 million that is being spent to look at better ways that we can engage the forest industry and things like the forest industry and using them in a way that has never been used before, taking the salvage wood out of the forest and instead of leaving it there to burn, which is not good for our GHG or the environment, utilizing that in all kinds of different opportunities in the forest industry, so we are talking to a number of industries who are excited about it who can see a huge future and there is investment in the forest industry in this province and I am quite excited about it and I think it is going to be a great opportunity for us to do that. Our next question comes from Dirk Meisner, Canadian press. Hi, I think this is for Minister Farnworth, I am wondering if the adaptation strategy would in the future have anything about preventing communities from building in flood zones or people building in fire zones? One of the key components of the community emergency preparedness fund is around the ability to access funds for better flood mapping and have a more thorough understanding of the flood risk in a particular communities area. One of the things obviously that local government needs to take into account and we all need to take into account in the advent of climate change is that building in floodplown areas is clearly a hazard and what was maybe in the past viewed as a one-in-one hundred year occurrence may now well be a one-in-twenty or a one-in-fifty. So the funds that we have announced today will allow communities to do better flood preparation mapping which will of course guide them in their developments and looking at areas where they are not able where they should not be allowing certain kinds of development for example. Dirk, do you have a follow-up? Sure, this is again for Minister Farnworth. You visited Abbotsford, Princeton and Merritt, I'm wondering what you could say is being done to ensure that next time the water rises in those places that there won't be floods. What the investment around the $2.1 billion is all about is to be able to deal and recover from the damage that we have in place. Be able to build back better. All of that work is that the funding that we have in place. All of that work is that the funding in the budget is a recognition of the importance of the work and the commitment of our government to ensuring that communities are able to meet the changes of climate change, become more resilient and have in place infrastructure that will protect them into the future. Next question comes from Albert Chewy, Fairchild TV. There is a carbon tax that is going to be collected in the first of April. Will that be dedicated money or revenue to fight climate change rather than going to general revenue? First part of the question, please. Carbon tax will be increased by April 1st. Will this money be collected to fight climate change as a dedicated funding rather than going into general revenue? Next question comes from Albert Chewy. Thank you very much. We take the money from the carbon tax, we put it into general revenue, and then from there we fund the Clean BC program, we fund the climate adaptation and preparedness strategy, we fund important infrastructure for both active transportation and public transit that reduces emissions. We have $1 billion this year dedicated to Clean BC which includes supports for individuals as well as businesses to reduce emissions which is an important feature of any carbon pricing system. And over the three years previous we spent $2.3 billion. When you add that to the funds throughout ministries to reduce emissions overall, whether it's our capital program to build zero emission public infrastructure, whether it's public transit, we are spending more than we take in. Next question. The question is about the money that is used on the climate change, it seems to be a long-term, has a long-term goal. But whereas we see some imminent projects like the Richmond hospital or the Masitano can not be finished by 2021. Why are we using the money on long-term rather than on short-term? So first, I'm going to take that question. So first I think it's really important to recognize that the Richmond hospital will be completed on time. I think that's absolutely clear that that's what's going to be happening. Everything is on time. And in terms of investing in short-term and on long-term, that's been everything we've been doing since we formed government. And what we're seeing now is that we're not investing enough in hospitals. We know that that's true. And they didn't invest in climate adaptation, making sure that communities were ready. This budget is about making sure that we're ready for the future. And as my colleague, Minister Conroy said, I don't want to be 10 years from now wishing that we had invested. We're doing it now because that's what's important for British Columbians to protect them now and into the future. I'm wondering how soon can Fraser Valley residents expect significant upgrades to take place on the region's substandard dykes? Obviously we want to make sure that we are working as fast and as quickly as possible. We work very closely with the city of Abbotsford and communities in the Fraser Valley. And we want to make sure that we're able to start as soon as we can. Jo, did you have a follow-up? Yes, I'm also wondering how much of the money is going towards the funding that was announced? How much of that money is going towards existing flood protections versus new ones? So there is, within the 120 million I announced today, that's available for local governments and Indigenous First Nations to be able to access in terms of emergency preparedness funding. That can include some mitigation works. One of the examples I would use is culverts, for example. At the same time, there's the recovery money that's within my budget within EMBC that will also allow and the contingency money that has also been announced within the budget to be able to deal with repairing the dykes and getting them ready for the freshest season that we are expecting later this year. Next question is Les Lane, Times colonist. Thank you for Minister Farnworth. The federal government this morning announced a range of sanctions against Russia for the invasion of the Ukraine. Does that have any impact on provincial dealings offshore? And do provincial governments in general have any kind of move to be made in a situation like this? Obviously as a sub-national jurisdiction we would take our decision on the federal government and if the federal government puts in place sanctions or restrictions on either let's say for example contacts or trade dealings then the province would obviously abide by those decisions. Do you have a follow-up Les? I noticed in 2014 that BC government contributed in the middle of the Crimean crisis. So BC chipped in $30,000 humanitarian aid to the Ukraine. Is anything similar in the works in this situation? Obviously we would be working very closely with the federal government on any actions that they wanted us to take of a humanitarian nature. I think what we are all seeing today is an unparalleled act of naked aggression. Probably the largest scene in Europe since the Second World War. And the federal government obviously will be and has been announcing sanctions and actions that Canada will take and as a province of British Columbia we work very closely with them. But clearly I think the situation in Ukraine is a concern to all of us and the horrific act of war that is currently underway there. We have time for one more question today. We'll go to Shannon Waters, BC today. Hello. Hi there. This question is for the public safety minister. I'm curious about the modernization of the Emergency Management Act that is supposed to happen in the fall now. It's been delayed by about a year. I'm curious how confident you are that the modernization will actually happen this fall and whether you've made any changes to the process for consultations, et cetera, to ensure that, you know, say if we have another intense wildfire season, that work can still get done. We have been working extremely hard on the update or the modernization of the Emergency Program Act. There have been significant events that have occurred during the time that work has been underway, not least of which the fire season, the flood season, the heat dome, the ice, and of course COVID-19, which has impacted, you know, government across ministries. I have stated that I want to see it in place for the fall. There has been significant work underway, but and a lot of consultation and we are going to be continuing on that. What is critical is we make sure that we get it right and more importantly, that we're able to incorporate the lessons that we've learned from the over the past few years, given the unprecedented fire, flood storms, COVID situations that we have been facing. And so lessons from all of those events are going to be incorporated into the Modernized Emergency Program Act. Do you have a follow-up, Shannon? Thank you, and I'm not really sure who this is for, but I'm curious why this event has been so significant in the last few years. Are you curious why this event is being held in a venue that doesn't allow for reporters to attend in person? You know what? We've all been dealing with COVID. There have been restrictions in place. And one of the things I'm looking forward to, just like everybody else, is when we get through the COVID pandemic, we can return back to, I don't want to say normal broadcasting as soon as possible, but I think that's where all of us are going to be.  Thank you very much, everyone. That concludes today's availability.


Okay guys, if you watched my recent video For art for therapy, then you saw me make these little canvases So I want to make these little canvases into one bigger canvas The more I think about it the more I think that's a good idea now for what I want to do I have one too many canvases. So I do want to take One of the more positive affirmation ones and I'm going to actually hold it aside and hang it up here in the Art room or put it by my desk as a reminder So I'm going to do that first Let's see This one now all of them are signed on the back and I wrote on the back what the Saying is that I wrote on it in case nobody can read it In case someday somebody takes this apart. I'm not going to change that. It's going to stay that way So then the idea is I'm going to I'm just going to put these out here for right now I don't know yet what order they're going to be in but it's this is a piece of foam core These are just four by four squares. So they don't even have to be all the right ways up Although I probably will make them that way is To arrange them Like this Nine by nine so see I have one too many it doesn't work and then I have a self-portrait I did of myself a ways ago in one of my sketchbooks and This is a printed copy of it on regular printer paper I also printed it on some vellum and that's given me a guide That I need to go back into with something darker that'll show up, but then I want to layer it on top of this You see what I'm going with that So as these are pieces of me pieces of who I am part of my journey and The white isn't bad, but I want it to be more transparent because I want you to be able to see these So I think we're going to take the vellum and use the printed Copy of the original drawing as a guide and then we'll go over it in pen and ink and make it darker So until it shows up first we need to arrange the background So we'll take all of these and put them over here aside first thing we need to do is figure out how big this is going to be and Then I'm going to take a pen and I make some reference lines on each of the corners And There we go, and we're going to use a straight edge and a mat knife to trim this and trim it up even not nice A street edge This is just a spare piece of foam core that I have laying around Nothing spectacular Let me use in what I have I could probably go get something nicer a piece of wood or something that would Eliminate the using what I have thing that I'm trying to do I'm wishing I was still in an art gallery because I do think that Although it wouldn't be something happy that you'd necessarily want to hang on your wall these art therapy pieces would make an interesting display and on a gallery When put together especially if you had more than one artists Therapy pieces hanging up They would tell a interesting story Okay Now we're going to cover the edges with some tape I'm going to sit down for this So I'm going to cover the edges because it's foam core the edges aren't super nice So I'm going to cover the edges with masking tape Okay, so next We are going to take a mat knife Probably this one. I want to get um give the foam core some texture Again that probably won't show In the background, but it'll make me happy I've never used this before so I don't know what to expect But I'm going to put a bunch of it on here And then we're going to just loosely scrape it on. I want to give this some texture Again, it's probably not going to show but I don't In case some of it does we're also going to paint it a color So At least around the edges They won't be obvious. Oh, hey masking tape So here we are with the vellum portrait and I am going to use Black and I think Black or dark gray. Holy cow. I don't know But no I Don't know Let's try dark gray Grab a dark gray We'll grab a black and Maybe a light gray For shading. Okay. We're going to start lighter and work our way darker That's pretty good. So let's take this and set it aside Sort of at random that's much better but I do think it needs to be darker. I think we're going to have to go with black I could print an extra one on vellum just in case because you know I do I am going to add some shading lines. The original has some shading lines in it in this gray color Let's see so the original has some Pen marks for shading So I do think we're going to add some of that in. Let's try that again So I did go ahead and once the texture medium was dry and paint the background Bored black And it's off to the side. You don't need to see me paint that But next thing we're going to do is attach these together now Initially, I was like not wanting to do that and then I really had to have sort of a mental talk to myself and ask why I don't want to permanently attach these together and I think part of me Is not wanting to acknowledge that these are good and bad These are all part of me and I think that I've talked myself into letting that go I need to just be okay with all of me and we are going to go ahead and permanently attach them now. I did Figure out what each one of these say including the one that I Have can't read anymore and I printed this grid And these are what they all say this will be attached to the back of the finished piece I also as I spoke in the previous clip. I printed two of the vellums as a guide in case I messed one up I do think I'm going to layer them together Because I think that is a little more opaque than just one you can see the image better and You can still see the background pieces Of me through the image of my face. So I think that's what I want to do now The first thing we're going to do is attach all nine of these together We're going to do that with e6000 But we're going to temporarily hold them in place while that dries with hot glue an old crafters trick so First thing my my e6000 is white because that was all they had in stock the last time I had to go buy this So we're going to carefully apply this and hopefully not Not um Get it where somewhere where it's going to show. So I'm going to put a thin bead of e6000 And I've already again. I've already arranged these how I want them to permanently be I'm going to put a little dab of hot glue on either end and then Put these together And hold and hopefully not lose them to the table Okay, there we go. So we're going to do all nine of them that way until we have our square and I will be back Hi guys, I want to pop in here for a second with the pieces of me video that you're watching right now and say Uh as a reminder, I'm not an art there uh an art therapist. I'm not an art therapist. I'm not a counselor I'm not a physician by any stretch of anyone's imagination. If you're suffering from any mental health issues Please go get help. There's no shame in that. That's what I'm doing And I just want to bring you these videos as a way to show you all how I'm helping myself or trying to at least Work through my own issues with help from my own counselor So I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do and again if you need help Please get it. I will try to include a link to a website I found in the us that should help you Find someone if you need someone to talk to and if you have a link for someone else in the um Country that you live in that you'd like me to include. Please let me know private message me leave it in the comments Um email me whatever. Um, you know how to contact me. All right. That's it back to the video Okay, the next thing we're going to do is carefully stack our two pieces of paper And center them on our canvases And then i'm going to use some melashi tape to take them down And we do the next step. This is a sort of A low-tack washi those of you who have washi tape know That some of them are more sticky than others This is one of those ones that's not super sticky piece there So the paper so the papers don't move around See that's what I mean about them not being super sticky. Okay, so now it's taped down And you can You know take a second look and make sure you like the way it's going to look which I do I have four little black brads. I had four or the other one go. Oh, there it is So we're going to attach this through the canvas with a brad and we're going to actually poke a hole with an exacto knife In each corner Through the paper through the Canvas and again, I did want to tell you all this is not an easy thing for me to do Although I know In my brain I need to Part of me did not want to do this Because it's sort of owning up to who I am and how I got here But that's okay It's part of my process part of my journey and we're going to just own it Okay, so I'm just going to eyeball this if you really want it to be precise You probably could measure and make sure you're getting the whole of the same place on each one, but Obviously, I'm not doing that Okay, now we can take the tape off I don't remember now until I edit that if I said that, you know, if you don't have a drawing of your face You could definitely maybe print a photo of yourself onto Something to semi-transparent or you could trace a photo of yourself Or something like that or you could maybe draw or use a symbol that represents yourself That all of those things will work. Okay. So now we're going to get our backer board and hopefully it's dry You could definitely just leave it like this You could definitely go there. I do want to put it back on it. And so I'm going to do that and I'll be right back Okay, I decided that we're going to use the solid painted black and textured Part of this board as our background to our finished piece And this is going to be where I glue the little canvases I um Going to put It together the same way we put the canvases to each other with some e6000 and then hot glue to hold it while the e6000 dries so I'm going to Move things around a little bit so you can see what I'm doing. Maybe Let's see Okay, so there we go. That'll do our burnout. So I'm going to put e6000 like the same places where I put it When I put the canvases together and then we'll put dots of hot glue in all the corners and then really quickly flip it over And attach it to the board. So I'm going to do that and I'll be right back Okay, now I want to attach our paper to the back and I am going to sign it But first I want to get it attached Um, and I think I'm going to try a technique. I've never seen anybody do before Is it a good idea?  It doesn't leave it bumpy If because you spread it out with a palette knife and it doesn't also leak through the paper You just have to be really quick because it's hot glue so And as you can see I have black paint on my hands again if you can see that because There's some parts of the paint that aren't dry yet There's lots of other ways you could attach this if you're not as like impatient as I am You could use any one of a number of glues Again, if use what you have don't go out buy something special This is about using what we have and working through our our issues In any way that we can creatively There we go Now to get the hot glue off of the palette knife The easiest way is to take one of these razor blade things Um always move it away from you And It should come right off So I know you need to let it dry a little more, but you get the idea. Okay, so now we're going to sign this And there we go. There's our finished art piece pieces of me And I might actually title it that what do you think? I'd love to see what you do if you guys take this idea and do something of your own with Um something like this that you've done. Um inspired by my visit videos or not. I'd love to see it Do go join my facebook group a life of art and self-expression if you're not already And do tag me in the post because I'd love to see What you're doing. I don't always see the posts immediately But I do see them eventually and if I miss something One of my admins or other art friends remind me. Hey jena go look at this. So I do want to see them. Um If you have questions comments or concerns, do leave it down below again If you're friends with me on facebook or in the facebook group you can private message me a question Um all of my social media stuff including my facebook group link are all in my video description along with My at the shop and everything else most of it is in the link tree list of links Happy mail addresses down there and all that stuff. I'd love to hear from you Don't forget to like share and subscribe and above all go out and do something nice for yourself because you really do deserve it And I'll see you later. Bye guys


How is he now? We're doing everything we can. The treatment we've been using just isn't working anymore. Mrs. Robinson, I'm sorry. But I don't think Kevin's going to survive much longer. I don't understand. Why would you give up on a 15-year-old boy? Miracles can happen. I wish I had something more to offer. I'm not ready to give up. And Kevin's not going to give up either. The seizures he's having, it's like he's saying, no, he's not going to give up. He's a fighter. That's my boy. I always told him I'd stand by him no matter what. I admire your strength. I can't even imagine what it must feel like to see your son slipping away like this. How can you be so sure? His blood pressure has fallen. We've had to start a medicine to bring the blood pressure up. But now there's too much fluid in his lungs. And his kidneys have stopped working. The blood pressure medicine is making that worse. I'm sorry, but it's just a matter of time. If his kidneys have stopped working, why can't you give him dialysis? I want him to have everything. Dialysis wouldn't work. He wouldn't survive it. What about a transplant? It just wouldn't work at this point. There must be something more you can do. We're doing absolutely everything we can. The truth is, Kevin is dying, and we're powerless to do anything about it. Well, I'm not giving up. Get someone else. Maybe someone else will know what to do. I'll be happy to find someone else to talk with you. We have an ethics consultant here at the hospital, someone who's got lots of experience with situations like this. Would you like to talk to her? Yes. Is there anyone else I could call? Reverend Jones or your sister? Do you think she could come in now to be with you? I think it's time. I'll call her myself. Good. Mrs. Robinson, I think we need to consider now how to make Kevin's final hours as peaceful as possible. You can stay with him in the intensive care unit if you'd like. Would you like to be with him at the end? If you want, we could free him from the tubes and the machines that he's attached to. No, you keep those things going. He needs those things. OK. Would you like to see him now? I understand. I'll be back in a few minutes. Doctor, you'll do everything you can for him, won't you? Everything that could possibly help.