Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We're gonna be giving you a big breakdown, basically a rundown of every single game mentioned in today's Nintendo Direct. So there is that. We're actually gonna spend a huge chunk of this video, however, talking about new details and some of my thoughts on the legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom. But don't worry, we'll start off with the newsiest portion, breaking down the Direct and then we'll get into the new information and then we'll get to my thoughts. Let's go, let's get into the news and speculation. So just breaking down today's Nintendo Direct, obviously we can just start off with some of the big guns here. We have the sequel to the legend of Zelda. It is called Tears of the Kingdom. It's coming out on May 12th, 2023. They showed that off today. They also showed off Pikmin 4 and that it will arrive at some point in 2023. They also showed off Fire Emblem Engage, which is a brand new mainline Fire Emblem game. It does happen to have Marth in it and it is set to come out January 20th of 2023. Next up, we have Kirby's Return to Dream. Land Deluxe brings a Wii Classic to Switch. So that is an old game coming back yet again. That is coming out on February 24th, 2023. Autobot Travelers 2 was announced. That game is set to launch on February 24th, 2023. And it's also launching on all other platforms as well. So it is not an exclusive game. Bandana 3 got a new trailer plus a new extended trailer for those that wanna check out that as well. Remember that's coming out next month. Final Fantasy, Thief Rhythm, Final Bar Line is announced and coming out next year on February 16th, 2023. Now, this was kind of one we're gonna separate out. There was some NSO announcements. But first off, GoldenEye was announced for Nintendo Switch Online and is the only version of the game because it's also coming to Xbox, but it is the only version that's going to have online multiplayer. I don't know why that's the case, but that is. They also announced that a bunch of Mario Parties, Pokemon Stadium, et cetera, will be heading to NSO. So the exact games are GoldenEye, Pilotwings, Mario Party, Mario Party 2, Mario Party 3, Pokemon Stadium, Pokemon Stadium Dude, 1080 Snowboarding, and Excitebite will all be releasing some in 2022 and some in 2023. Also, Harvest Moon 64 is exclusive in Japan. Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion will be released on December 13th, 2022. That was announced today. Wave 3 of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course had a little bit shown off today with Mary Mountain from Mario Kart Tour and Peach Gardens from Mario Kart DS, and it said it will come out this holiday. Nintendo Switch Sports is getting its free edition of the golf mode, but it has been delayed from this fall to this holiday. Mario Striker's Battle League is going to get its second free update as well, which includes Pauline, Diddy Kong, New Gear, New Rankings, and also a new stadium. Xenobot Chronicles 3, Wave 2 of DLC is going to be added in as well. There was some stuff showing off today, Splatoon 3's first Splatfest was announced today as well, and it's going to be between Gear, Grub, or Fun, depending on what you would like to have on a private island.  What would you rather do? Resident Evil Village Cloud. This includes Village. This includes also Resident Evil 1, 2, and 3, the remakes and all that. Those will be available through Cloud later this year. Harvest Moon, A Wonderful Life is actually getting remade as Story of Seasons, A Wonderful Life. So there is that. Faye Farm is a new RPG with a mix of magic and farming. Again, we got a lot of farming RPGs today. Comes out at some point next year to switch exclusive. Harvest Stelig actually had a demo dropped today, and it's released at Unveiled again of November 4th. Fatal Frame, Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is coming west. This did actually release originally in Japan, I believe back in 2008, but it never got localized. It has now obviously been remastered and coming to the west. Tunic was talked about again, and you can actually play the game right now. It releases later this month on Switch, September 27th. It takes two, was announced for Switch as well. That's coming November 4th this year. Sifu was mentioned again. It is coming out on November 8th. Front Mission 1 Remake, Front Mission 2 Remake are announced, and we get looks at them, plus they announced that Front Mission 3 will also be ported as well. All of these will come sometime in 2023. Altair Rise at 3, Alchemist of the End, and the secret key is coming in early 2023 on February 24th. You notice that February 24th, it seems to be a popular release date. Tales of Symphonia Remastered is coming as well next year in early 2023, although there is no date. Then we have Master Detective Archives Rain Code was announced. We also got SpongeBob SquarePants. The Cosmic Shake was also announced as a 2023 game, and we'll have the original voice actors. Rune Factory 3 is getting remade and released in 2023 but they also announced it'll be a brand new Rune Factory game coming at some point as well, although they didn't show it off. Various Daylife was shown off as well, which is a new RPG. Radiant Silver Gun arrives later today. That was a shadow drop today. Factorio was announced, and we'll task you with building a new rocket to get home by utilizing the world's resources. That's coming out October 28th, 2022, the same day as Bayonetta 3. IB, or IB, is some sort of creepy adventure game that was announced today, and that's all that happened. Odd Ballers was a party game announced today. That's coming to Switch in 2023. Fitness Boxing, Fist of the North Star is a workout game coming out in March of 2023. Just Dance 2023 edition was shown off, even though it was announced this past weekend. It's coming November 22nd. Endless Dungeon is a procedurally generated roguelite set in space that is coming out in 2023 as well. And there were a bevy of other smaller titles that we're not gonna get into because it's kind of irrelevant to today's conversation. What I do want to focus on, of course, is Tears of the Kingdom, because, oh boy, was that ever epic. Now, before I talk more about it, let's get into the new information we have on it. And that's essentially, we got new art, official screenshots, and the box art. Now, the box art looks absolutely incredible, and it's based on the official art that dropped, which I really, really like and is instantly becoming the background on pretty much all of my devices by the end of today. And what I find interesting about the screenshots is all of them are screenshots released by Nintendo that definitely came from the trailer, but everything looks so crisp. It looks so clean compared to watching the video version. So it makes me feel like maybe the game's running in 1080p or 900p or some sort of higher than 720p resolution. But again, these are obviously just bull shots and they don't really mean a whole lot until the game's in our hands. Also, strangely enough, when talking about Tears of the Kingdom today, isn't just the speculation around the name and how it was supposed to be a spoiler. I also think it's interesting if we just sit back and think, for a moment, you know, why is Nintendo not showing more of this game? We continue to just be shown really tiny snippets. We've been showing tiny snippets now four times. We don't actually get any extended gameplay, extended looks. And I know we're gonna get plenty of it. Some have wondered if this is because it's actually going to be a new hardware or it's gonna launch with new hardware. So Nintendo's waiting to blow it out when that new hardware is gonna be revealed, which would be probably next year, right? If there is gonna be new hardware. Again, that's still total speculation, nobody knows. But at this point, everything's surrounding Tears of the Kingdom is speculation besides the fact that there are islands in the sky. You can dive off them. And yeah, Zelda's in the game somewhere. I think what's interesting though and just looking at the trailer over and over again is you can clearly see that there might be some sort of story elements being suggested here. One of them looking like possibly that Ganondorf purposely sacrificed himself may be to lift a certain curse over demise. I don't know, that's obviously just a theory. Beyond that, we have to see that Zelda and this weird god-like creature put their hands in a circle and we have the dragon eating itself thing happening or it's two dragons, two-headed dragon. I have no idea because it's different. Like in the game it kind of shows the two dragons coming up and meeting each other in there but then you go to some of the other logos and it's more of a circle with the dragons eating each other's tails. Look, it looks different depending on what's going on. Maybe that's because it's a symbol for abilities or something in the game. We don't know, it's all speculation at this point. But I'm just really excited for Tears of the Kingdom and I think that this has the potential not only to be next year's game of the year, I'm shocked it's coming in May. Is anyone else surprised? Like, look, I know I expected March. I'm cool with May, it's still spring. I just, I'm a little surprised. Nintendo usually doesn't have a huge game in May. So I'll take it. Breath of the Wild 2, a.k.a. I shouldn't say a.k.a. Breath of the Wild 2 is the a.k.a. The game has a name. It is the Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom. We need to all get used to saying that and forget Breath of the Wild 2. Forget the sequel to the Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild. No, no, no, Breath of the Wild, goodbye. Your ancient history now. Now we're looking at Tears of the Kingdom. Looks incredible. I will dive into deeper speculation on this in the Nintendo Prime Podcast tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Central. Otherwise, folks, you guys are amazing and epic and awesome and I love everyone. And it was a Nintendo Direct Day. So no matter what was shown today, it's always a good day when we get to hear official news from the big N. Thank you guys and I'll catch you in tomorrow's Prime 5.


Hi, so I'm Karen Malpied and I'm going to be talking about my experiences with the war and before the war. So I was at home in Brooklyn on the morning of September 11th, 2001 when a close friend phoned and advised that I turn the television on. America is under attack, she said. Later that day my partner and I walked from our home in Clinton Hill to the Brooklyn promenade on the East River where we joined others in silent vigil watching the wreckage of the tower's burn. Still later I walked from Clinton Hill to Park Slope with my daughter crossing Flatbush Avenue. We saw groups of the survivors, glassy eyed like ghosts.  Some stood like statues on a flatbed truck. Others trudged silently, slowly toward their homes. In the three weeks that followed, New Yorkers gathered in Union Square and Central Park to chant, our grief is not a cause for war. We had seen firsthand the devastation of massive civilian death. We did not wish to inflict on others what it was we were having to tolerate and struggling to comprehend. On October 7th, 2001, we woke to the streets that had been swept free of the collectively created memorials. The bombing of Afghanistan had begun. The energy changed at once from shared contemplative mourning to an aroused mood of vengeance and this cry for revenge has become now 16 years later our national ethos and this growing cry for vengeance has led directly to the election of Donald Trump. It is impossible to look forward without first holding ourselves accountable and our elected officials as well for past crimes. The subsequent assassination of Osama bin Laden without trial which was widely cheered meant that there would be no full accounting of his crimes or of the Obama administration's continued extraditional murders by drones. Iraq was not in possession of weapons of mass destruction and Colin Powell was lying at the behest of the Bush administration when he held up a vial of white powder in the UN. Both these lies are uncovered in my anti-torture play another life as our other lies obtained by torture and used to terrify the American public. I have written and co-produced four plays about the U.S. and Iraq. The first going to Iraq blue heaven was about Gulf War one which coincided with the height of the AIDS crisis at home and it is an imaginative reaching back and forth between two devastated cultures. Then in 2005 Iraq speaking of war a documentary drama of the war's first two years told in the actual voices of Iraqis and Americans punctuated by a chorus of names of and ages of children killed including 18 year old Americans but in a ratio of 15 Iraqis to one American which was then accurate. In 2006 I began prophecy a play about intergenerational war trauma from Vietnam to Iraq acts of forgiveness and veteran suicide the epidemic of which was just beginning to be noted and in 2010 another life a surreal retelling of the U.S. torture program. Both plays were produced in London and New York. I have created many festivals of conscience found performance of my plays in which human rights and anti-war activists dialogue with audiences. As I tried to tell the truth and to engage audiences by storytelling about the war I found myself increasingly cut off from funding sources and theater venues and I have been regularly vilified by mainstream theater critics in this country though not in London. At the same time my plays have received high praise from major artists and activists and from audiences hungry for the experience of being truly moved. The dead and hurt have exponentially multiplied since September 11th 2001 uncounted millions of ghostly victims coated in cement and human remains struggle out from the rubble in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Yemen, Syria. The rise of ISIS is equally a result of our Iraq invasion and torture problem program. Donald Trump's ascendancy proves our failures a nation to address the lies and illegalities of the American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and of the US torture program. The same Islamophobia used to fuel the so-called war on terror was used by Trump to propel him to power because our nation never held itself accountable for illegal invasions wars and assassinations and has continued to punish whistleblowers and truth tellers instead of putting tortures and liars on trial. We are entering in an even darker and more dangerous time when hatred of the other has been given full-throated permission to thrive and climate change with its growing conflicts and refugee crisis is not only being ignored but expedited. We will need an underground life-affirming culture more than ever in the years to come.


I'd like to thank the organizers for the opportunity to give this talk on a PD, probably the only PD in this conference perhaps. It's about quasi-periodic systems, infinite dimensional, and reducibility. And since you may not be all familiar with this, I should start by giving you some background. So what we are interested in is in a linear differential equation. It is a constant matrix, and we have a non-constant one, which is time-dependent. So in this, so this is my system, linear differential equation. It's an N by N system, so X is in CN, A is an N by N matrix, possibly real or in a complex. F is a mapping from a d-dimensional torus into the space of N by N matrices, and the elements on the torus is called phi. Omega here is a vector in Rd, and one can assume without restriction that it is rationally independent. So there is no integral relations between the components of omega, except the trivial one. Now, so this is now an ordinary differential equation. This one I will only consider analytic functions, and this is perturbation theory, so it will be small. So we have a linear autonomous system of differential equations. We have a small time-dependent perturbation, and this time dependence is periodic or quasi-periodic. Dot, by the way, here is d dt. So when omega, when d is one, then this is just a periodic one. Basically we know everything about this system, so I will restrict myself to d bigger than two. So this is the kind of difference from zero, thanks a lot. There is another way to write this, as you all know. You can transform it into an autonomous system, and then it takes the form A plus F of phi times X, phi dot equals omega, and now we get an autonomous system, a vector field, vector field on Cn cross Td, which is trivial in the direction, in the Td directions, and which has some non-trivial behavior in the fiber direction. So this is a skew system, or also called the co-cycle, quasi-periodic linear. So the most important notion for this kind of system in the perturbative setting is what is called reducibility. So the statement is the following that this co-cycle is reducible if and only if there exists a mapping from Td into the space of invertible n by n matrices, say analytic. There exists a constant matrix B, such that the transformation, mapping X, phi, into Y equals C phi times X and phi. So it's simply a linear transformation in the fibers so that this transformation transforms, conjugates the co-cycle here to a constant co-cycle, Y dot equals B of Y, phi dot equals omega. So conjugate the system, time-dependent system to a constant coefficient system for which we basically know everything. So let me call this one. So this is the notion of reducibility. It's basically a constant coefficient system under a linear change of variable. This, another way to write it, is to say that one is equivalent to two, that is that this partial differential equation is fulfilled. So here d omega is the directional derivative of each component in the direction of omega. This is a partial differential equation on the torus. If you only know this guy, then it is slightly non-linear because the unknown here are the transformation, capital C, and the transformed system. So slightly non-linear PDE on the torus. Another way to write it is to say, look at the fundamental solution. This is a linear differential equation. So it has a fundamental solution for each phi. It's a linear differential equation. So it has a fundamental solution, a matrix solution which gives you all the solution. And this one has, this fundamental matrix which has a decomposition in the following form. So these are the three equivalent ways to formulate the reducibility of a system. And it's an easy algebra to verify that these are in fact equivalent. You could, of course, construct different variants of this. You could relax the smoothing condition. This is an analytic system. It's natural to ask for an analytic change of variable. But you could, of course, ask for something less. You could relax the periodicity of C. Here we require that C is defined on the torus. That means that it's a function in D variables and it's one periodic in each variable. You could just as well require that it's two periodic or why not three periodic? I mean that would be a result that is equally interesting. So these are a relaxing condition. This is not, perhaps, not extremely interesting. This is important. You could also require more. You could require algebraic constraints. For example, if our system is real, you could ask for a decomposition into real matrices. If it has trace zero, then the fundamental solution has determinant one. You could ask for a decomposition into matrices of determinant one. This question was essentially solved by Clair Chavaudry in 2010 where she proved that if I have a system which belongs to some matrix group, symplectic group, orthogonal group, and you can make a factorization of the fundamental solution in this way in complex matrices, then you can also factorize it in the group. There is a small price to pay for this factorization, that is that the transformation will not be defined on the torus but on the double covering on the torus. So there is a small price to pay for this. Okay. So let me tell you something about the results which we know. So we have quite a lot of results for these kinds of system and most of them are for omega verifying some diophantane condition. So let me remind you what it is. It means that k omega scalar product is not only different from zero, but it is bounded from below by a condition of this type. And f from td into glcn is analytic, so it extends to a certain neighborhood of the torus, so on which we measure into by the sup norm on a complex neighborhood, f of phi for complex values of phi. And now the general theorem that we have is the following. It says that in under this condition, in the space of all systems bounded by some constant, which depends on the arithmetic and on the smoothness, one, almost all co-cycles are reducible. All co-cycles are almost reducible and three, maybe we should take it since I talk about A, so let me have glmc here to get the matrix. And the generic co-cycle af is non-reducible. So this is the general picture that we have in the perturbative regime for co-cycles which has diophantane frequencies and which are analytic. It's not a theorem, but it has been proven for many classes of systems and there is nothing really, there is good reason to think about this as being true, but it has not been proved in this general. So what does almost all mean and what does almost reducibility mean? Well, almost all means that you look on in this class, you look on generic one-parameter families. And then for generic one-parameter families of such a system, you prove that the system is reducible for almost all parameter values. While almost reducibility, what does it mean? It means the following. So you start with the co-cycle which is of size epsilon, it's small, and then it says that for any epsilon prime, there exists a transformation C prime from TD into GL into the space of invertible matrices. There exists a B epsilon prime, a constant one, such that, how should I formulate it? The transformation X phi is mapped into Y C epsilon prime phi times X phi. This transformation conjugates the co-cycle into two, to a new co-cycle which is not exactly constant, but which is arbitrarily close to constant coefficient, so G epsilon prime in some weaker norm is smaller than epsilon prime. So this is the notion of almost reducibility. You cannot say that you can conjugate your system to a constant co-cycle, but you can conjugate it to an arbitrarily small perturbation. And epsilon prime here is any epsilon prime. So it's not just epsilon square, epsilon to the power 3, but it's epsilon to the power 1 over epsilon to the power 1 over epsilon to the power 1 over epsilon, whatever you like. So this is the notion of almost reducibility. Now these guys here are in general not close to the identity. So they become big. So this tells you that it may not have a limit when you let epsilon prime goes to zero. It may not have a limit when epsilon prime goes to zero. However, the first statement here says that for good one parameter families, it will indeed converge to something. And the third statement says that it will not always converge. So this is the thing which we always have. This is the thing which we have generically in a measurable sense. And this is the thing which we have generically in a topological sense. These kinds of systems, if you think about this one as integrable system, this one as non-integrable system, then they are very, very, they have a very, very complicated structure. And it's hard to distinguish one from the other one. There's some sort of moral of this theorem. Okay, good. So this one is verified in many cases, for many systems, but not in this generality, which I have formulated. That's why I've written it as a theorem between cetacean model. But for many families, this has been verified, this kind of structure. Now, there is an open question here, which I'd like to mention. And for these, at least for the cases where we have verified this, we have verified this in the analytic setting. And I have no idea if this statement is true in C infinity, not in generality or not for special families. So the question of C infinity co-cycles is quite open. We have a similar kind of structure. And if you go to finite differentiability with M sufficiently large, then it's, of course, even still more open. So this is the kind of structure. So there is a lot of questions that remains to solve here, even in the perturbative setting. One may ask global questions. This is a local question. And it seems that this is very much a perturbative statement. There is one thing which is important here, and that is to note, is that almost reducibility is incompatible with non-uniform hyperbolicity. A system that is almost reducible cannot be non-uniformly hyperbolic. If it's hyperbolic, then it's uniformly hyperbolic. And since we think that there are large classes of systems which are non-uniformly hyperbolic, big systems, it seems that this is a local, very much a local phenomenon. But there exists some recent results starting from 2000, essentially for dimension D equals 2, and for discrete systems in dimension D equals 1, where there are some global results. And these are due to Crickoryan, Fayad, Avila, and you, I think, who has also done contributions. So there are some global results, but they are very much restricted. Now, I will not talk about global results. I would like to talk about infinite dimensional systems. If you do this, go through the proofs of this kind of stuff, you'll see the following that this constant here depends very much on the dimension of the system. And when you like to increase the dimension, then this constant will decrease, at least that's the one you get. So there is no obvious induction to infinite dimensional systems. And each infinite dimensional system raises a lot of problems. So let me give you, I would want to give you two examples where we have been able to prove something for infinite dimensional systems. And the first one is the linear Schrodinger equation, quasi-periodic Schrodinger. So this is a PD, and it looks like this. So you have U, T of X, you take the time derivative of it, and you have perhaps minus, I don't remember, U, T of X plus a potential, which depends on time, quasi-periodically. So X here, now X belongs to the torus, it's periodic boundary conditions. V is a function, X belongs to Tn. V is a function from T product torus into R. Here the variables are phi, here the variables are X, and we assume that it's analytic, and this is perturbation theory, so it will be small. Omega here will be our parameters. So they will lie, say, in the unit ball in Rd. So these are our parameters. We don't claim anything for a particular equation like that, but we like to prove something for a large set of parameters. Now, this is a co-cycle in infinite dimension. The way to see this is that you write it in Fourier modes. So Ux can be expanded in Fourier series, and if you write out this equation for each Fourier coefficient, for the Fourier coefficient, then you will see that this guy is equivalent to a co-cycle, which has the following form. A here is a diagonal matrix. So A belongs to GLC, the power CN, and it's a diagonal matrix which has A squared on the diagonal, and F is a mapping from CD into the space of infinite dimensional matrices and its matrix components. And this one is simply the Fourier coefficient of the potential V here. It's Fourier coefficient with respect to the X variables. So this is an Hermitian matrix. So this is what we get. Of course, this is completely formal. However, it's not easy, difficult to prove that star omega has a global flow on the space Ls of CN cross Td, where Ls, L2 of S is the space L2 with weights. So the notion is that U hat belongs to Ls if and only if U hat A squared and then I take A plus 1, I guess, to the power 2S is finite. So on this particular manifold, then this is a well-defined dynamical system which has a well-defined global flow, which is analytic or whatever. Moreover, the flow preserves the L2 unit ball. So if you take U in L2S of CN and you restrict it to the L2 unit ball, then this flow preserves this because these are Hermitian. So this one is anti-Hermitian and the flow is unitary. So this is an example here now of an infinite-dimensional quasi-periodic co-cycle. This one depends on... And the question is, is it reducible or not? Or can you prove anything? And there is a theorem about this. I'd like to mention theorem by Cuxin and myself from 2008, which says the following that if V analytic function is sufficiently small, then there exists a subset of good frequencies. And this is a large subset. So Lebesgue unit ball minus this set goes to zero when the potential becomes smaller and smaller. Such that for all frequencies in this good set, the co-cycle V is reducible. And it is reducible to what? To a system which... what are the variables? Let me call it V hat. So it's reducible to a constant coefficient system. Now, this is infinite-dimensional. So constant co-cycles may be pretty complicated. But this one is pretty good, where B, first of all, is close to A. A was here. B is her mission. And moreover, it is block diagonal, in the sense that B, the matrix elements, are zero unless norm of A equals norm of B. So this infinite-dimensional system decouples into a direct product of finite-dimensional systems. I forgot the I here. So this guy has only purely imaginary eigenvalues. And the conclusion of all this is that corollary, all solutions of these co-cycles are almost periodic. This is, of course, not for all omega, but for a large set of frequencies of omega. So this is what we can prove. This has other consequences. So let me mention another one, which is known as localization. So what you are interested is in the dynamics of this orbit. So here is the lattice, C of n. Here is my initial value, T equals 0. And when you take your dynamics of this, this flow will, this wave packet will evolve in time. So, of course, we start with something that lies in L2S. And what do we know? So the question is, what can we say about this for other times? So what we know is that U hat of T stays in the space L2S. We have a global flow here for each T. What we know is that if I measure the L0 norm, the L2 norm of this, then it does not change. This is because the flow preserves this unit ball. So the question is, what happens now in the higher, the weighted norms? And what you see here is of course that what we have here is a weighted L2 norm. So if this wave packet travels away to infinity, then of course these modes will be measured in the S norm by higher and higher weights. So it will increase. On the other hand, if this wave stays in a bounded region, then the S norm will remain. So the S norm describes part of the dynamics of this orbit. And the corollary here is then corollary is that U hat of T in the S norm is bounded by some constant times S times the zero norm for all T. So this is also a consequence of this reducibility statement. Now this should be compared with a slightly weaker result, but under more general conditions by Bergen, who proved I think in 98 that if omega verifies some diophantane condition, so for almost all omega, the growth is at most logarithmic. Growth is at most logarithmic. So this is a more general statement. It holds for almost all omega, but it gives not a bound like this, but it gives some kind of condition here. And we also constructed examples of V and omega and solutions U hat such that the supremum of this is infinity. Yeah, it's the standard diophantane condition. So this tells us that it's not always bounded. It's almost always in omega bounded by this, and this tells us what happens for a large depth of omega. Now there is a natural question that you may raise in this connection, and that is the following. Since this flow preserves this, then a natural question is, let me put it over here, existed V and omega such that the flow of the co-cycle V omega on the unit ball, which is a sort of unit sphere, such that the flow on this base is transitive, and you could even ask for minimum. So there exist examples where things may go to infinity, but this is a natural question, and this is motivated by something which we know for SO3R and SNR. So this is an open question, and I will be willing to bet a small amount of money on the fact that the answer should be yes. Okay, so let me tell you now something about the wave equation, linear co-cycle periodic wave equation. Or since we have a parameter, well, let me give you the equation. So we are looking at a second order equation. I never remember if I think it should be plus zero. So this is a linear equation, second order. V again is a mapping from quasi-periodic time and periodic space into R, analytic and small. Omega is an element in Rd, and now I will assume that it's fixed. On the other hand, M here is a parameter which belongs to some interval, for example this one, and it's usually in this connection called the mass parameter. So this is an equation that depends on M, and let me ask, for the Schrodinger equation, the signs have no big importance, but they have importance for the wave equation, so let's just check that I got the sign right, plus, plus, minus, plus, that's fine, yeah. So what can we say about the solutions of this equation? Well, one way is to write it as a co-cycle. So you start with phase variables u, and you add v, that is time derivative of u, you go over to Fourier modes, and then you do a linear change of variable, and introduce the variable c. Here is a linear change of variable, linear, linear change of variable, basically you take whatever. And in these new variables, you can write this system as a co-cycle. So it is psi, maybe I should call them hat, but we remember that they are Fourier coefficients.  So what is lambda? Lambda is a diagonal matrix which has on the diagonal the eigenvalues a squared plus m. It's an infinite dimensional matrix. The use of these variables is that the main part here now becomes diagonal. f is a mapping from td into gl, cc of n, and it is a symmetric matrix. This is symmetric, this is symmetric, this is Hamiltonian, so it's a symplectic co-cycle. Now, once again, this is completely formal, but this one has a global symplectic flow on LS2 times CN cross LS2 times CN. This is fibers, this is the phase space cross td. I forgot to say something about the Schrodinger. What is S? And S here must be bigger than some constant that depends on the dimension, which is, I think, d minus 1 over 2, because you need to apply Sobolev's lemma in this case. So it has a global symplectic flow, and moreover, that preserves the subspace eta hat equals psi hat complex conjugate. And the reason why you have this reality condition in this complex system is that it comes from a real system, and we have introduced here complex variables to diagonalize the link. So this is now a well-defined co-cycle, and you may ask, what are the dynamics of this one? Let me give you a theorem, which is quite recent, which says that under, assume a certain diaphanthine condition on omega. I will not specify it, but this is, besides the standard diaphanthine condition, you put on also a quadratic diaphanthine condition on omega. It's something which is fulfilled for almost all omega, so the standard diaphanthine condition plus a quadratic diaphanthine condition. I have no time really to give it to you. Then if the potential is sufficiently small, and sufficiently small here, depends on omega. This diaphanthine condition, then there exists a subset into 0, 1, which is a big subset, which goes to 1 when the potential goes to 0, such that for all m in this, for all good masses, the co-cycle is almost reducible. Now, almost reducible means that the solution, can I have two more minutes? Yeah. Means that the solution can be approximated by almost periodic solutions. And it also means that you have some growth condition on the sobolev norm. Now, what are these approximations and these growth conditions? Well, in general, what comes out of it is, it depends on the estimates that you have. And I will not give you the estimates because it will only bore you, but you have a transformation, which transforms this to, say, epsilon prime close to constant coefficient.  And you like to know something about the reduced system. How is it diagonal? Is it block diagonal? So, besides this qualitative picture, what you need is to have some estimates. And what kind of estimates do you have? Well, I will not give them, but I will give you a corollary once you can prove. So, if you look at the solutions in this norm and how they grow, then these are bounded by some constant, log t plus 1 times c hat omega s plus eta hat s and this is for all t. So, you get some kind of growth condition. Now, I did this last year and I present this on a conference in Rome and the enthusiasm for this growth condition was very, very weak. I mean, Italians are hard to... So, I worked harder. And in fact, a bit harder, I improved the estimates a little and what you can prove is this. And now I invite you all to admire this beautiful log log estimate of the growth of the sublet norm. This is pretty constant. Well, the exponent, I think it's s. It depends on s and I think it's s, it may be 2s or something like that. So, this is what you can use almost reducibility to. Don't get growth conditions, but you get pretty close. So, with good estimates, I mean, the moral of this is with good estimates, almost reducibility is almost as good as reducibility. The final part of my talk will now be to give some ideas of the proof of this but since my time is running out, I think I will spare you from this. So, thanks for your attention.


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It is now time for oral questions. I recognize the leader of his Majesty's loyal opposition Speaker my question is for the Premier Yesterday newly uncovered documents provided even more evidence that it was a conservative It was conservative political staff not civil service experts who directed changes to municipal official plans that favored very specific land speculators in Niagara Hamilton Halton Waterloo Peel York Durham regions It's clearer than ever that the Premier was looped into decisions regarding urban boundary changes From the start So speaker I have to ask the Premier were these specific changes made to benefit the Premier's friends Just like the decision to remove sites from the Greenbelt Minister Thank you. Thank you speaker actually last week when I reversed the official plans. I acknowledge that there was in fact too much Involvement of political staff in those official plans and that is why I removed or I revoked the official plans and went back to the original plans As submitted by the regions supplementary question Speaker it's very obvious that the Premier's office was more involved in all of these decisions and they've disclosed as We start to dig former Minister of Housing's chief of staff Ryan Amato didn't mince words He directed senior ministry staff to and I quote keep their mouths shut about the changes These revelations bring the Premier and the former minister's testimony to the integrity commissioner into question So speaker why is there such a discrepancy between the Premier's testimony to the integrity commissioner and what's revealed in these documents? Mr. Mr. Speaker as I said at the news conference last last week I thought there was too much involvement with from political staff in the in the forum Minister's office and That is why I repealed the changes that the province had made to those official plans And re in reinstated the official plans as submitted by the regions I acknowledge that last week at the same time We're going to continue focusing working with our our partners our municipal partners to make sure that we get houses Shovels in the ground and homes built for the people the province of Ontario It's an accident right a one-off No speaker the Premier told the integrity commissioner that he had quote no recollection of Meeting developer Sergio Mancha about removing his lands from the green belt the Premier repeated that just this morning But the documents uncovered yesterday. They tell a very different story In fact, they indicate that the Premier did meet with Mr. Mancha on September 20th, 2021 With the same Mr. Mancha Who staff members said the Premier quote needs to stop calling? Speaker I'm going to ask again Why is there such a discrepancy between what the Premier testified to the integrity commissioner and the revelations in these documents? Minister missful fairs and housing speaker I said quite clearly and I've answered it a number of times that there was too much involvement From political staff in changes to the official plans and that is why I repealed the changes that were made by the By the by the province and the official plans and why I reinstated the official plans as submitted by those 12 municipalities There was too much involvement. I repealed them. I'm working with municipalities To ascertain which of the changes they may support over the next 45 days Speaker but I have acknowledged right from the beginning. There was too much input from political staff We have a provincial policy statement That's what we should be guided by and that's what we will continue to be guided by as we build 1.5 million homes working with our municipal partners to get that job done Next question once again the leader of the opposition Ontarians are growing increasingly concerned that this government doesn't understand the gravity of the situation They're in back to the Premier. They're under a criminal RCMP investigation Apparently interviews are going to start this week. They've appointed a special Prosecutor the integrity commissioner and the auditor general had to do comprehensive probes in order for the public to get a sense of the Scale of this government's dirty deals This goes so far beyond the green belt We've seen a clear pattern of preferential treatment Benefiting the private interests of a select few landowners over and over and over again So speaker to the Premier how can Ontarians trust this government when a mountain of evidence shows their only in it for their friends Well, tell the leader of the opposition why they can trust us you look at the economy the 700,000 people they're working today that weren't working five years ago They look at the housing starts record housing starts and rental starts over 30 years We look at the infrastructure building the highways and the roads and the bridges and the transit were spending 70 billion dollars on $30 billion on on roads and when it comes to mzo's mr. Speaker, there's 234,000 people that have a roof over their head today that wouldn't have a roof over their head There's five thousand seniors that can call long-term care home because the mzo's that were asked by the municipalities to do There's a hundred and fifty thousand destruction jobs that happen because of those mzo's It's a tool that we aren't going to stop using we're going to continue building homes the 1.5 million homes That's our target. We're going to continue doing That's his alibi evidence 7,000 pages of evidence 7,000 more reasons that Ontarians have to question this government's integrity Everything in there points to the premier and his staff directing policy changes to favor specific speculators with ties to the conservative party in one instance in Hamilton this government copied a developer's exact request into Hamilton's official plan word for word To the premier who runs this province? Is it the premier or has he outsourced the job to his speculator friends? Do you know who runs this province the people of this province run out the people I always say parliament is supreme and what is parliament parliament is elected by the people so the people are supreme They tell us what they want. We ran on a very clear mandate building homes Building roads building highways building long-term care homes building hospitals order and the reason we have to do this Mr. Speaker because the Liberals for 15 years Supported and propped it up by the NDP Destroyed this province basically put it in the bankruptcy and we came in and saved the people and save the problem Speaker this premier and his minister testified Under oath that they did not know about the changes to the green belt until late October 2022 yet now we have pages and pages of redactions due to cabinet Confidentiality from September and early October these redactions seriously call into question the accuracy of the premier's testimony We know that the premier's former minister principal secretary director of housing policy all Conveniently provided the integrity commissioner with the same incorrect dates when they were living it up in Vegas with a green belt Speculator so speaker to the premier. Why is the premier's cabinet sitting on their hands while he is clearly giving? preferential treatment to his insider friends Mr. Ms. Voltaire's and housing Just the opposite speaker. We're not sitting on our hands. In fact, we are getting the job done across the province of Monterey You know she talks about she talks about me so zoning a minister zoning orders the premier talked about it I mean minister zoning orders will ensure that we have the largest Long-term care home in the country built in Mississauga. You know what else it will mean It'll mean the largest hospital in the country in Mississauga So the leader of the opposition would like us to close down 600 beds for seniors She'd like us to stop construction of the largest hospital in the country She'd like us to put down the shovels on the social housing that is being built within the city of Toronto She would like us to stop the subways that are being built She would like us to stop the go trains that are being built across the province of Ontario And she would like us to stop building homes for people of the province of Ontario who have one dream speaker The dream is Province or if you're already here to get out of your parents base basement so that you can have the same dream as everybody else We won't stop. We'll get this question. Once again the leader of the opposition Speaker the jig is up. The jig is up. This should be a moment of very simple reflection for this government and instead They're doubling down This question is for the premier from official plans to the green belt to MZO's We have a chaotic and speculator friendly process driven by the premier and his political staff When discussing the cherry wood lands owned by Silvio de Gasparis Mr. Amato is quoted in these FOI documents saying the government should just do what they asked for At another point, mr. Amato says the speculator is getting in and I quote Unfrozen three billion dollar asset On another point, he says the process needs to look quote as clean as possible Speaker if Ontarians can't trust this government's testimony under oath, why should anyone believe them at all? Mr. Speaker when it comes to the official plans there's thousands and thousands and thousands have changed us This has been going on for decades even when I was down at the minister Municipality and when I directed the minister of housing to pull those back We're gonna work hand-in-hand and assures. I'm standing here mr. Speaker the municipalities are gonna come back And they're gonna ask for more changes and God bless them for asking for changes because that means we're gonna be building homes What do you know what I find ironic mr. Speaker no matter of it's the MZO or OPs or whatever Guess who shows up to all the announcements The NDP shows up to the announcements standing beside me when we're announcing a long-term care order It's happened numerous times, but I find it very ironic they vote against it But they want to take the kudos when we actually get the long-term care homes built Supplementary speaker the premier can't continue to claim ignorance about this. This is embarrassing We now We now know that he had a meeting regarding the green belt on September 15th We have a note from October 13th saying that the decision on the York region area is Quote with the premier's office right now, but quote the premier doesn't understand It's in the Oak Ridge's Marine in Document after document we have quotes like they're bringing it to the PO in Conversation with PO and PO by the way in case anybody doesn't already know is the premier's office on October 26 the minister wanted to rip off the green belt band-aid and hope developers don't and I quote stab them in the back Speaker so back to the premier if this question is how the premier's office conducts business When is the premier going to come clean about his role in these shady backroom deals? Speaker listen, this is no different This is an NDP that is literally opposed to everything the leader of the opposition is sitting next to a member whose own writing depends on mining and that he sits in his place and laughs because he knows he voted against minors and thousands of jobs behinder is a member who relies on schools and Colleges in university and that's a member who votes against in student housing mr. Speaker on the opposite side as a Member who votes against long-term care in his writing every single day But as the premier said shows up to the announcements and says oh, I want to help you cut the ribbon to something that I oppose Every single time mr. Speaker surrounding the leader of the opposition are members who vote against housing They vote against transit and transportation in their writing It is a caucus that is divided and the leader of the opposition will do anything to distract the divisions in her own caucus We will move forward on building a bigger better stronger province of Ontario because that's what the people need and we won't let them down My question is for the Minister of Finance When meeting with local businesses in my writing of Thorne Hill I've heard time and time and again of the pressure the federal carbon tax is putting on our economy and especially on our local commerce So starting a growing and growing a business is hard work all businesses play a vital role in our province's economy While the opposition liberals and the NDP have no problem with the aggressive carbon tax It's not fair or right that our businesses are being punished Speaker can the minister please explain what impact a carbon tax has on our economy and our businesses To apply the minister of finance. Well, thank you speaker and thank you to the hard-working member from Thorne Hill for that great question You know their local business owners are absolutely right The carbon tax is driving up costs of making life more expensive for the people of this great province Mr. Speaker in fact a recent study by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business found that more than 56% of businesses would need to increase their prices immediately due to direct pressures from the carbon tax That means that it's not just on the carbon tax. Mr. Speaker. It's a tax on the truck truck drivers who bring in our food It's a tax on the farmers who go our crops and it's a tax on the local businesses that try to succeed in Ontario mr. Speaker, it's not fair for the people of this province order To continue with this punitive carbon tax, and that's why we will continue to fight against the carbon tax Even as the Liberals and the NDP opposition members continue to vote to make life more expensive for Ontario families Thank you speaker and thank you to the equally hard-working minister The carbon tax harms health and wellness and progress of Ontarians The regressive tax adds an artificial barrier to the affordability of essential items It forces small businesses to increase prices is making them less competitive and it places an unfair burden on our producers So Ontario companies are struggling every day to stay competitive and viable in a global market due to high inflation In this time of economic uncertainty and affordability concerns, let's not tax Ontarians more Unlike the opposition Liberals and NDP our government believes in putting money back into the pockets of people by removing this harmful tax Yep, can the minister please share his views on why we need to fight this carbon tax and provide support to Ontario businesses and families Sure finance And thank you to the great member again from Thorne Hill for that question as the members so clearly Outline the carbon tax continues to drive up prices and make life more unaffordable And I was really disappointed to see that the liberal opposition members and the NDP members voted against our motion To remove the carbon tax from grocery items That's why speaker I was proud to have stood alongside the premier today To announce that our government is once again taking action To support hardworking Ontario families and businesses by extending our gas tax cut If passed mr. Speaker the 2023 fall economic statement will extend the gas tax cut to june 30th 2024 Saving households an average of two hundred and sixty dollars, mr. Speaker And mr. Speaker this is just one more cost-saving measure championed by our government Putting money back in the pockets of Ontario families at a time when they need it most member for university rose tail figure my question is to the premier According to foi documents at a meeting on october 13 2022 staff discussed the removal of gormley land from the green belt In a meeting note ryan amato said the decision on the gormley green belt lands was with the premier's office. I quote Amato Premier doesn't understand. It's in the oak ridges moraine Unquote my question is to the premier Did you make the decision to remove these gormley lands from the green belt? Yes or no? Uh Speaker gormley lands were never removed from the green belt. I know that quite well because it is in my riding. I actually uh Grudgingly campaigned in two elections to remove the gormley lands from the green belt because the town of stovill is having such a difficult time raising the funds needed uh to With respect to um unfunded liabilities with respect to infrastructure because it is entirely green belted But the premier on both occasions told me it's not happening and rejected those that green belt expansion Thank you Again to the premier at a subsequent meeting on october 21 2022 ministry staff Met to discuss outstanding issues related to certain green belt properties These properties included the gormley green belt lands in york region According to the meeting note ryan amato said and I quote they're bringing it to the premier's office Two weeks later these green belt lands were designated for development in the ministry's amendments to the york region's official plan They got what they wanted the premier previously claimed. He was not made aware Of the changes to the green belt prior to the cabinet briefing on october 27th We all remember this very well Would the premier out of respect for the people of ontario like to correct his record? Take your seats ministry miss both airs and housing again, again, mr. Speaker the gormley lands were not included Question the member for brandford brand Thank you speaker My question is for the minister of indigenous affairs and northern development The carbon tax is making everything more expensive for all of ontarians and especially those in northern ontario The reality is is that because of northern geography the cost of transporting goods is already much higher Than it would be in any other part of the province The north is a vast land where many individuals have to travel by car And in many cases larger vehicles are needed for safety due to the many back roads and the unpredictable weather conditions The carbon tax is negatively impacting people in these communities as they are hit hardest By the at the gas pumps and in their grocery stores Speaker can the minister please elaborate on his views regarding the negative impact that the carbon tax has on northern ontario Thank you Order minister of northern development Mr. Mr. Speaker because he's proud to stand with two leaders prime minister harper and premier ford who've taken a hardline stance Against the carbon tax. Mr. Speaker. There's no place in this province where that cost has had a greater burden Think mr. Speaker for a moment when the dryden eagles want to play the fort francis muskies. There's 185 or 200 kilometers It's hockey. It's basketball badminton's all those sports. Mr. Speaker think of how much more money Those schools have to pay to play each other Gas mr. Speaker is already more expensive up in northern ontario that 14 cents a leader is a big hit But let's talk about energy mining and forestry a recent study at the university of waterloo says this is a hit to canada For 256 billion dollars forestry mining and energy combined As one of the largest producers in those three spaces or users Ontario is exposed in three of its primary drivers for our economy. Mr. Speaker. It's time to scrap this tax The supplementary question Thank you Thank you speaker and thank you minister The carbon tax is in essence Attacks on everything Your groceries Your gas Heating your home and so much more It's not right that individuals and families in northern communities are negatively impacted because of this regressive tax And you know what speaker instead of supporting northern ontario the previous liberal government Supported by the ndp spent more time insulting this region calling it no man's layer Unlike other parts of our province the north faces unique barriers regarding fuel costs that need to be understood and respected The opposition liberals and ndp Downplaying the carbon taxes impact on northern ontario is disrespectful to all of its residents Speaker can the minister please elaborate on the detrimental effects that the carbon tax is having On the people communities and businesses of the north. Thank you minister of northern development With all due respect it isn't just the fact that they downplayed They voted in favour of this carbon tax. That's a matter of record in this legislature And in Ottawa, mr. Speaker and no place No place could this be on higher profile than the isolated communities in northern ontario now this government understood that We put a reduction in fuel costs into the isolated communities Uh in the last legislative session the member from kiwak no, how did he vote against that colleagues? These are carrying people and goods to his isolated communities He voted against it. Mr. Speaker as did his other colleagues who have isolated Communities in their writings. Mr. Speaker They already have some of the highest costs for groceries goods and importantly diesel fuel for the last remaining communities In northern ontario who deserve sponsors corridor. I know the minister of energy is listening hard to that, mr. Speaker This carbon tax is very expensive for our isolated communities. It's time to scrap the and cast her down My question to the premier according to foi documents released yesterday in an email dated november 4th The day the green belt changes were announced Brian amato asked many ministry staff for a map to make sure that green belt land in nobleton could be developed This land was not technically removed from the green belt But development was enabled through the ministry's changes to your region's official plan also Announced on november 4th. Mr. Amato wrote and I quote Pio premier's office asked me for a picture to make sure it's captured So why was the premier's office so interested in these nobleton green belt lands? Yeah, best of my understanding of the nobleton green belt lands were not rezoned for housing supplementary question the member back to the Niagara These green belt lands appear to correspond to lands owned by flado developments owned by the premier's friend Shakira amtula the integrity commissioners report Described how ryan amato decided to open these green belt lands for development Using changes to york's official plan rather than changes to the green belt boundaries Three speaker did the premier or any of his staff direct mr. Amato with respect to flados green belt lands in nobleton? Yes, or no Again, no changes were made to these lands senator speaker The next question the member for kinkston in the islands Mr. Speaker yesterday a freedom of information document gave us a glimpse into the 8.3 billion dollar green belt and urban boundary scandal We learned that the premier's office on or before october the 26 2022 was worried about the public reaction to green belt removals staff notes recorded that the minister wanted to quote Rip the band-aid off, but the po doesn't want that he wants safeguards and quote While the premier's office seems to have known what was going on in october last year or before The premier himself says he didn't know anything until that november If the former housing minister resigned because he didn't know what was going on in his office and his head was in the sand Will the premier step down for the same thing? Mr. Speaker, what did the premier know and when did he know it? Mr. Mr affairs in housing. Thank you very much, mr. Speaker I think about the integrity commissioner in the auto general were very clear That the pre of that the premier had no role in that at the opposite time Oh, mr. Speaker the premier has been very clear that we have to continue on our On our goal of building 1.5 million homes for the people of the province of Ontario It is no secret that when we took over government in 2018, we were faced with a province that had crippling deck crippling taxes crippling Red tape we're in a housing crisis because of the obstacles that the liberals Supported by the NDP had put in the way of building homes now We've started to release all of that mr. Speaker what we're doing with our housing supply action plans is working We have the highest amount of purpose built rental starts in over 30 years, mr. Speaker And the same great news for for a new home starts. Listen We're not going to stop working to get kids out of their basement apartments and into their first homes That is our job and we will get it done for them Supplementary question. No the next no supplementary question. It's very Mr. Speaker on october 31st 2018 the premier stood in this house and said quote We have the most ethical most transparent most accountable caucus not just cabinet but caucus I've ever seen in politics. They make sure they don't make the back room deals that we've seen in other governments and quote So mr. Speaker does the premier consider his team's actions on the green belt over the last couple of years ethical Mr. Ms. Bluefares and housing Speaker, you know what we're doing in this side of the house and the conservative majority on that side of the house We're rebuilding a province that under 15 years of liberal government supported by the NDP was literally Decimated now they finally started to come around to understand Just how bad a government they were when we brought a motion forward on the carbon tax You'll remember this speaker We have said since day one the carbon tax would kill the economy that it would cost every Single ontarian far too much. Mr. Speaker. They disagreed with it This premier for the federal government to court to stop that tax Now we've finally seen a split in the liberal party Mr. Speaker half of them want to continue the tax the others want to kill the tax order They know that we're on the right page We will not stop ensuring that we reverse everything that that liberal government did cutting taxes Red tape building more homes for the people of province of ontario. They were incredible failures. We'll get the job Speaker my question is to the associate minister of transportation Since the implementation of the carbon tax the people of ontario have been paying more and more every single day for food For services and for transportation They've been forced to pay much more to fuel their cars The carbon tax is making life more expensive for millions of people in ontario While our government showed much needed leadership and reduced the gasoline tax the federal government did not Instead they increased fuel and gasoline costs by more by 14 cents forcing individuals and families to make to pay more at the pumps Because of this regressive tax Doing so hurts our drivers and negatively impacts our economy Speaker can the associate minister please explain the negative impact of the carbon tax and what our government is doing To mitigate this unfair policy Speaker the member from burlington is correct and thank you for her advocacy and the great job that she's doing The federal carbon tax is draining the pockets of hard working drivers It hurts workers who want to drive to the office and get back home It's unfair for truckers who transport critical goods across our province. Mr. Speaker That is why i'm proud that our government Opposed this harmful carbon tax and unfortunately, mr. Speaker the liberal NDP had no problem Supporting this tax while saying no to any of the measures our government is bringing to provide financial relief to ontarians Mr. Speaker, let's not forget that they said no to our government's Fantastic removal of tolls on highway 12 and highway 18. Mr. Speaker by removing these tolls the average commuters Can save 300 dollars on the 418 and 150 dollars on the 412 every month, mr. Speaker Unlike liberals and NDP and their carbon tax our government is making life more affordable Thank you Thank you, speaker High gas prices caused by the federal carbon tax are making life more difficult for people in my riding The federal government has increased the carbon tax on gasoline five times so far And they are planning another seven increases by 2030 This is wrong and unfair and will hurt many hardworking individuals and families who are already struggling Canceling the carbon tax will save money at the pumps for our drivers by putting more money back in their pockets Individuals and families are looking to our government to help during these challenging times to provide support So that life is more affordable Speaker can the associate minister please explain how removing the carbon tax will make life easier for ontarians And how our government is making everyday life more affordable for drivers in our province Stop the clock We're in the midst of question period A member for water living with the government house leader. They wish to have a conversation Could perhaps do so outside the chamber If they wish Restart the clock the associate minister of transportation The removing the carbon tax would be a long overdue victory for drivers in this province The hardworking people of ontaria would no longer be overburdened Been paying for gas food transit and other everyday essentials in the meantime, mr Speaker we are finding concrete ways to fight against the negative impacts of the federal carbon tax By putting more money back into people's pockets, mr. Speaker That is why i'm proud under the leadership of premier for our government Eliminated the license plate renewal fees in fact It's because of our work on this policy alone that over 2.2 billion went directly back into the pockets of over 7 million Mr. Speaker we are fighting the federal carbon tax that opposition liberals and ndp continue to support Our government will continue to put more money back into people's pockets, mr. Speaker It's scientists got the tax. Thank you Toronto saint paul's Thanks speaker. Good morning. My question is to the premier. Can you shut so I can speak? Thanks My question is to I'll remind all members to make their comments through the chair Order Order Member for Toronto saint paul's Thank you speaker. My question is to the premier This government's cut of five million dollars this year to the ontario arts council and continued failure to match funding to inflation Is being felt deeply across ontario and toronto saint paul's is no exception This year ballet organ's funding was cut by 16 percent As a result they have been forced to cut staff and free programming that serves racialized northern rural and underinvested In communities all because this government failed to deliver adequate funding to see it continue My question is to the premier Will you commit to restoring their funding to meet inflation so that communities for which the arts is a social determinant of health And well-being can thrive. Thank you Mr. Tourism culture and sport Thank you, mr. Speaker and and I thank you for the question in 22 23 24 ontario arts council council will be provided with 60 million dollars of operating allocation And to confirm previous year was also 60 million dollars and that has great impact in the community in arts organizations Across all communities so matter of fact, mr. Speaker. It's over 220 communities and helping support Through grants 500 arts organization and individual artists When it comes to the specifics Uh of the question since 2018 ballet yorge, and I hope I pronounced that correctly has received over 1.4 million in support through the oc ontario arts council and ontario cultural attractions fund and of course special investments through the covet funding and i'd like to reinforce that What the oc does in all of our communities is supports artists young p bonds and thrives And helps communities thrive mr. Speaker, and that's really important across the board including tourism Speaker the government seems to care about our big eight our art organizations But not so much about our small and medium-sized community arts organizations back to the premier I wrote to the premier and minister Outlining just how important ballet organs programming is for its dancers as well as its ontarians Because investment into arts organizations is a guaranteed return both economically and socially as a harm reduction strategy social determinant of health and building block To our jobs our economy our tourism the whole nine just to name a few Our province is better for it and will pay the price without a properly funded arts Sector my question is back to the premier Will he commit to ontario's economic future by restoring ontario arts council funding in line with inflation To meet the needs of ontario artists and organizations who depend on it for their livelihood Mr. Speaker and again, thank you for the question restoring I believe I said 60 million Previously and for this year, and I don't think that's a cut I just I want to double check and I also I also take exception when we're talking about Impacting communities in a positive way youth in communities arts artists the cultural part of what's going on And you and there's a suggestion and I want to make sure this is correct. Mr. Speaker There's a suggestion that since 2018 1.4 million dollars In funding isn't enough Boy, I'll tell you what there's a lot of organizations out there, Mr. Speaker That wish they had half that money and do mostly within the community So I think that's a little bit of a slap in the face, but that's okay. We're big boys over here House will come to order order Restart the clock the next question the member for algoma manitoula Thank you speaker. My question is for the minister of health Access to health care in the north often means traveling long distances to get to the care you need In my writing people often must travel to health science north and Sudbury to st. Marie Thunder Bay or to southern Ontario for surgeries special appointments and diagnostics We rely on the northern health travel grant to make sure that no one is denied the care they need Because of costs however my office is often and constantly hearing from constituents who are waiting weeks If not months On end to get a meager reimbursement that barely covers a portion of the cost to travel And the accommodations To the minister does she believe that people in northern Ontario have the same right to access health care as the rest of Ontario The deputy premier and minister of health You I do and not only do we believe that but we're actually making changes, you know since 2018 We have expanded almost 50 49 MRI machines that will be operating in the province of Ontario in communities closer to home Why do we do that speaker? Because we want to make sure that people have access to those diagnostic tools as close to home as reasonable And specifically speaking on the northern health travel grant We now have 95 percent of individuals who submit for a travel grant Get that reimbursement within 30 business days. We have made changes that make improvements And we will continue to do that because we have a plan and it is working Again to the minister of health the fact of the matter is that northern health travel grant is feeling to address Health inequities in northern Ontario and this government is content to sit on the sideline while it does A constituent in my writing Heather Wilson from Espanola must travel to Toronto for medical treatment regularly She wrote to my office last spring saying I have had to navigate the northern Ontario travel grant system The outdated system of printing out the forms getting the referring doctor and the referred doctor to fill out these forms And then mailing it in and waiting for reimbursements of costs see marquette to me Northerners have the right to the same resources in a prompt matter And current and the current northern health travel grant does not do this for northern Ontario residents Will the minister support and pass my bill to improve the northern health travel grant so that it finally works for northerners As I said in fact, we have made improvements one of course is allowing auto deposits so that Constituents can access and get that money back But I want to talk about the expansions that have happened in northern Ontario You know whether it's returning the Ontario northland for the first time and allowing Friends and others access whether it is a brand new hospital that I had the opportunity to visit and talk to the winnebaco Hospital leadership to make sure we are making those investments in northern Ontario Whether it is an expansion of a community health team in the members own writing that we did this summer We are making sure that individuals in northern Ontario rural Ontario All across Ontario have better access to health care closer to home. Thank you Question the member for Carlton Mr. Speaker Mr. Speaker my question is for the associate minister of small business The carbon tax raises the price on everything Especially for small businesses like those in my writing of carlton and across the province who have no choice But to either absorb a loss or pass on the cost to customers Business owners, especially restaurateurs are the heartbeat of communities across Ontario and are the back Backbone of our economic engine They are rightfully concerned about the financial impact that the federal carbon tax continues to have on their bottom line unfortunately The opposition liberals and NDP continue to ignore and disrespect small businesses concerns about the impact This regressive tax has on them speaker through you. Can the associate minister? Please share what she has heard from small business owners and entrepreneurs regarding the impact that the carbon tax is having Thank you The associate minister for small business Thank you, speaker I want to thank the great member from Carlton for her great work in the writing and for the question Speaker just yesterday I met with restaurants canada to discuss the continued economic recovery of the food service industry They made it unequivocally clear that owners are facing hardship over the federal carbon tax For years the NDP and the liberals failed to stand up in this house and recognize What their constituents had been saying all along speaker That from the farm to the table the carbon tax was a disaster for small businesses in our province Speaker restaurants and small business owners cannot simply pass these unnecessary costs on to consumers Forcing them to cut staff instead Meanwhile, the federal government turns a blind eye to their struggles Speaker this tax is the difference between doors open and doors closed response We demand better than empty words from those who champion this joint liberal NDP tax grab. Thank you Mr. Speaker, thank you to the minister as we all know small businesses are the backbone of our local economy Especially in my riding of Carlton's however Many local businesses are already feeling financial pressure due to higher costs associated with inflation and ongoing supply chain challenges I often speak with business owners who are concerned about the impact that the carbon tax is having on their business operations Many of these owners are still struggling to recover and they worry about the impact increasing carbon taxes will have on their ability to continue operating The opposition liberals in NDP need to hear their concerns and support our small business owners by opposing this regressive and harmful tax Speaker through you. Can the minister please share what impact the federal carbon tax increases have had on small businesses in our province? Thank you The associate minister for small business Thank you speaker and again to the member from Carlton who works extremely hard for her small businesses in riding Yesterday, I also had the pleasure of speaking to representatives from the canadian federation of independent business They expressed to me that while our small businesses play close to half the billions collected in carbon taxes each year Only a tiny fraction of that money comes back their way Even worse Funds intended to help small businesses with carbon costs have been taken away and thrown back into the ever expanding taxation All the while the opposition parties have cheered on these policies without care for how hard they hit family businesses And people working from paycheck to paycheck Only only this premier and this government had the backs of entrepreneurs in this province from the start We call on the spooky and dpn liberals to stop grandstanding and for once stand up to their federal counterparts and demand It wasn't halloween that remark might not have been acceptable Start the clock the next question member for kiwetna Miigwech speaker. Good morning. My question is to the premier I've been speaking with first nation leaders across ontario And they are frustrated and confused about ontario's ongoing consultation Of the matey nation of ontario within first nation territories First nations affected by these decisions have Have asked the government repeatedly To share the evidence ontaria is using to support this recognition Ontario still hasn't shared that evidence Will ontario share the evidence as asked yes or no Mr. Northern development and minister of indigenous affairs speaker The government of ontario is guided by Some legal decisions and we make it our business to engage indigenous peoples across province across the province Mr. Speaker I've never seen a leader of a political party be more accessible to indigenous leaders business leaders and political leaders Mr. Speaker to fundamentally change the dialogue. Mr. Speaker to create opportunities for indigenous populations across the province to settle treaty disputes Mr. Speaker to settle flooding and land claims. Mr. Speaker and ensure that first nations communities in the indigenous population across The province of ontario writ large has the tools they need for greater economic prosperity. Thank you, mr supplementary Speaker the the ontario court of appeal recently provided direction on consultation In the recent way that decision The ontario government must consult with first nations about issues affecting their traditional territories Including when it recognizes the matey nation of ontario communities in those territories Will this government follow this decision? Yes or no? Well, thank you, mr. Speaker. We're very proud of the fact that we have increased The number of resource revenue sharing agreements available for indigenous communities, mr. Speaker It's just another example of how we endeavor to ensure that first nations communities have the economic tools that they need Mr. Speaker to engage in a resource-based economy in northern ontario, mr. Speaker and As as as an addition to that to to complement it if you will to be involved in the sustainable responsible development In forestry and in mining these are game changers in northern ontario, mr. Speaker We will always live up to the standard of a duty to consult And we make it our business to ensure that first nations communities across this province, mr. Speaker Play an important and equitable role in all of the economic response Available now and in the future of this great problem. Thank you, mr. Speaker Next question a member for scarborough agent for Thank you, mr. Speaker My question is to the elder statesman of scarborough and the minister or for seniors and accessibility Across our province many seniors are currently struggling to stretch their incomes The cost of food as well as everyday goods and services keep rising For seniors with limited incomes The carbon tax is creating even more difficulty and hardship It is not right Or fair that Seniors should have to be worried about the extra burden that the carbon tax Is placing on them Unlike the opposition liberals and ndp Who support the carbon tax our government is focused on making life more affordable for our seniors Speaker can the minister please explain What impact the carbon tax is having on seniors in our province Mr responsible for seniors Thank you, mr. Speaker Thank you to hardworking member For the important question The federal government's carbon tax is a worry for our seniors Every product we have in Ontario is affected by the carbon tax Seniors across Ontario are very concerned That taxes will keep going up and life will be harder for them Seniors should not have to struggle To pay high cost for food Healing and the things they need Our government is working for Ontario seniors So they can live comfortably and with dignity That is why our government opposes the federal carbon tax Thank you speaker And thank you to the minister For that response Under the strong leadership of the premier And this minister our government is respecting our seniors by opposing the federal carbon tax That the opposition liberals and ndp support However, life is simply more unaffordable today because of the imposition of the federal carbon tax It is harmful that tax That is creating hardship for seniors by driving up the cost on everything Seniors are also concerned that higher heating costs due to the federal carbon tax will impact senior centers And organizations that support them Speaker can the minister please elaborate on how the federal carbon taxes Will impact organizations that support our seniors. Thank you Mr. Seniors and accessibility Thank you speaker Ontario senior should not be taxed more The federal carbon tax should be cancelled because it hurts Ontario seniors centers Our seniors these these programs to remain active Socially engaged in their communities Without this support many seniors will be socially isolated and this will harm their health Our government takes the well-being well-being of our seniors very seriously Will continue to support our seniors and to advocate for them. Thank you Thank you. Thank you speaker. My question is for the minister of health This morning in the media studio My colleague the MPP from Niagara Fall and I were joined by Erin Harris She is the president of the Ontario nurses association Who stated and I quote Our publicly funded hospitals and long-term care homes are seeing their budget drain by these greedy for profit nursing agency owners Who bill obscene amounts of money Is the minister of health taking any action whatsoever to stop for-profit nursing agency from making millions of dollars in profit At the expense of quality care in our hospital and long-term care homes Mr. Paul Thank you speaker what our government is doing is expanding the health care workforce across the spectrum Whether that is That are available in every single medical school in the province of ontario Including northern ontario school of medicine so that we are training more physicians and and ensuring that they are in the system Whether that is as of right rules that ensure that medically regulated professionals who want to come to ontario and practice in ontario have the ability to do that Immediately while their license gets transferred, you know We're making the investments to expand our health care workforce The member opposite is concerned about something that frankly is less than two percent And a tool I might add that is very valuable for rural and northern ontario So i'm happy that we're making those investments and expanding and I will not take that tool away from northern ontario commentary Speaker Dave verge the vice president of qp ontario hospital hospital Ontario council hospital unions was also present He said and again, I quote Agency staff are paid as much as 300 percent more than hospital staff Which is contributing to the staffing crisis with stark consequences for patient care He give he gave many example of the effect of quality care of having staffing agency More and more of them in our hospital and long-term care Will this government take action to ensure that health care dollars are paying for quality care Not lining the pockets of private nursing agency executives Frankly very concerned that the member opposite Knows full well that every single nurse practitioner Rn is regulated by their colleges in the province of ontario regardless of who their employer is And to suggest anything other than that is putting fear in people's minds and it is wrong So I want to be very clear with the people of ontario every single nurse That is practicing in ontario whether it is in hospital in our public Health units in our long-term care facilities in our retirement homes in our home and community care system Is regulated under the college of nurses of ontario has always been and will continue to do so I am focused on expanding the ability and access to ensure that we have sufficient Health human resources in the province of ontario. I only wish the member opposite had the same focus Next question member for Essex Thank you, mr. Speaker the carbon tax is hurting families It's hurting farmers and it's hurting businesses in ontario the carbon tax raises the price of everything Order especially for small businesses who have no choice, but either suffer the loss or pass it on to their customers Unlike the opposition NDP and liberals we in this party have always known that the carbon tax would drive up costs for everybody Speaker can the minister of energy, please explain the impact of the carbon tax Having on hard working families in the province of ontario minister of energy That great question from the member From Essex who's standing up for his residents down in southwestern ontario Absolutely, we've heard from all of our members and our ministers today on just what an impact the carbon tax is having On constituents in their communities and small businesses in their communities Mr. Speaker the president of the treasury board and I were talking earlier this morning about a request from Dalhousie university To ask the bank of canada to take a look at just how much Impact the increased carbon tax was having on the rate of inflation across the country, mr. Speaker And they revised their numbers and the figure is a staggering 0.6 percent, mr. Speaker And when considering the compounding impact of the carbon tax the bank of canada now contends that it contributes a whopping 16 percent mr. Speaker to the rate of inflation the federal government has to wake up My counterpart the federal minister of enter can said yesterday that there weren't going to be any more car votes They have to start being the government of ont canada and treating all canadians fairly mr supplementary question Mr. Speaker as the premier has said the delivery of every product we have in this province is being affected By one of the most harmful and regressive taxes this country has ever seen It's a useless tax and that's the carbon tax speaker The most concerning part about the carbon tax is that it will only get worse The federal government and opposition liberal and ndp want to triple this regressive tax Triple it by 2030 I absolutely agree with the premier's concerns about this tax Because while our government has remained laser focused on lowering costs the carbon tax is working against us Can the minister please share his views on the negative impact the carbon tax is having on so many on Thanks again to the member from s6, you know the federal government Is digging in on the carbon tax as a matter of fact mr. Speaker at a time when Affordability is the key issue at the door We go door to door and we talk to our constituents all the time And the biggest thing they're talking to us about is just how unaffordable it is to live in this country these days Our province has done everything we can we've removed the stickers for license plate fees We've got rid of the tolls. We're lowering the price of gas by 10 cents a liter So many different programs to like make life more affordable for the people of ontario But the federal government keeps digging in and then they announce a break for atlantic canada, mr. Speaker But they are the government of canada I have some advice for them If they don't make a change and provide the same car vote for the people all across canada including in ontario They're going to end up like this bunch did like kathleen went and the liberals did mr. Speaker. They'll lose party status Concludes our question period for the This morning


How about Jalen Samuels of the Steelers, Frank? I think he surprised a lot of people when he got in the end zone this past weekend. Yeah. Once James Conner left that game, you know, limped off the field, went for X-rays and MRIs right away. It's actually crazy because he's been ruled out for week 14 already. It's not often that we see players ruled out on a Tuesday. The Steelers traveling to Oakland to face the Oakland Raiders, James Conner already ruled out. So we're looking at James Conner. We're looking at Jalen Samuels, excuse me, to pick up the slack here. And I know that Mike Talman has already said that they're going to go running back by committee, but of those running backs, Jalen Samuels has played the most snaps on the season. And we already have a small sample size where the past two times that James Conner has left the game, remember, he left the Panthers game with a concussion on that game on Thursday night football. Jalen Samuels actually caught a touchdown in that game as well. So we now have two games where Conner has left, Samuels has stepped in and has caught a receiving touchdown. If you look at what he did in college, he's kind of like a tight end converted running back. He played a little bit of H back. So I look, I do think that Steven really will get some carries here, but especially in the past game, we're looking at Jalen Samuels. And this is a great matchup against the Oakland Raiders who allow 130 rushing yards to running backs. That's the most in the NFL. They allow 5.1 yards per carry. That's third most in the NFL. So it's a great matchup. It's a great offense, great offensive line with the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's crazy that you might be trusting a waiver wire running back in week 14 in the first round of your fantasy playoffs, but hey, it's the Pittsburgh Steelers and they're in a good spot against the Oakland Raiders. So go out there and make sure you get Jalen Samuels, especially if you play in Yahoo, where he has tight end eligibility. It's nuts. It is nuts. It sounds like a good idea to me. Like you said, the Steelers are still a potent offense. They have a great matchup at Oakland and we do have a bit of a track record on Jalen Samuels and so far, we like what we see.


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