It's theCUBE covering the virtual Vertica big data conference 2020 brought to you by Vertica. Hello everybody, welcome to the new normal. You're watching theCUBE and it's remote coverage of the Vertica big data event, gone digital or gone virtual. My name is Dave Vellante and I'm here with Colin Mahoney who's a senior vice president at Micro Focus and the GM of Vertica. Colin, well, strange times, but the show goes on. Great to see you again. Great to see you too, Dave. Yeah, strange times indeed. Obviously safety first of everyone and we made the decision to go virtual. I think it was absolutely the right call. We made it in advance of how things have transpired but we're making the best of it and appreciate your time here going virtual with us. Well, Ditto, and we're super excited to be here. As you know, theCUBE has been at every single BDC since its inception. It's a great event. You just presented the keynote to your audience. You know, it was remote. You didn't have that live vibe and you have a lot of fans in the Vertica community but could you feel the love? Yeah, you know, it's hard to feel the love virtually but I'll tell you what, the silver lining in all of this is the reach that we have for this event now is much broader than it would have been. As you know, we brought this event back. It's been a few years since we've done it. We were super excited to do it, obviously, in Boston where it was supposed to be on location but there wouldn't have been as many people that could participate. So the silver lining in all of this is that I think there's a lot of love out there. We're getting to have a lot of participants who otherwise would not have been able to participate in this both live as well as a lot of these assets that we're gonna have available on that. So, you know, it's out there. We've got an amazing community of customers and of practitioners with Vertica. We've got so many that have been with us for a long time and we've of course have a lot of new customers as well that we're welcoming in the community. So it's exciting. Well, it's been a while since you've had the BDC event. A lot has transpired. You're now part of Micro Focus but I know you and I know the Vertica team, you guys have not stopped. You've kept the innovation going. We've been following the announcements but bridged the gap between the last time we had coverage of this event and where we are today. A lot has changed. Oh yeah, a lot, a lot has changed. I mean, you know, it's the software industry, right? So nothing stays the same. We constantly have to keep going. Probably the only thing that stays the same is the name Vertica. And as you know, we announced Vertica 10 which is just a phenomenal release for us. So, you know, overall the organization continues to grow the dedication and commitment to this great platform of Vertica continues. Every single release we do, as you know, and this hasn't changed, it's always about performance and scale and adding a whole bunch of new capabilities on that front. But it's also about our main road map and direction that we're going towards. And I think one of the things that's been great about Vertica is that we've stayed true to that from day one. We haven't tried to deviate too much and get into things that are far too outside our box. But we've really done, I think, a great job at extending Vertica into places where people need a lot of help. And with Vertica 10, I know we're going to talk more about that, but we've done a lot of that. And it's super exciting for our customers. And all of this, of course, is driven by our customers. But back to the big data conference, you know, everybody's been saying to us for years. You know, that was one of the best conferences we've been to. It was just so real. It's developers giving tech talks. It's customers giving talks. And we had more customers that wanted to give talks than we had slots to fill this year at the event, which is another, you know, benefit, a little bit of going virtual. We can accommodate a little bit more, but obviously still a tight schedule. But it really was an opportunity for our community to come together and talk about not just Vertica, but how to deal with data. You know, we know the volumes aren't slowing down. We know the complexity isn't slowing down. Things that people want to do with AI and machine learning are moving forward in a rapid pace as well. So there's a lot to talk about and share. And that's really a huge part of what we try to do with Vertica Big Data Conference. Well, let's get into some of that. Your customers are making bets. Microfocus is actually making a bet on Vertica.  Yeah, no, it's great. So, you know, I think one of the waves that we've been riding for a long time, and obviously Vertica started out as a SQL platform for analytics as a SQL database engine, for relational engine. But we always knew that was just sort of the base that we wanted to do. People were going to trust us to put enormous amounts of data in our platform. And what we owe everyone else is lots of analytics to take advantage of that data in the platform. Lots of tools and capabilities to shape that data, to get into the right format for operational reporting, but also in this day and age for machine learning and for some pretty advanced regressions and other types of things. So a huge part of Vertica 10 is just doubling down on that commitment to what we call in-database machine learning and AI. And to do that, you know, we know that we're not going to come up with the world's best algorithms, nor is that our focus to do. Our advantage is we have this massively parallel platform to ingest, store, manage, and analyze the data. So we've made some announcements about incorporating PMML models into the product. We continue to deepen our Python integration, building off of an open source project. We started with Uber, who's been a great customer and partner on this, as one of our great talks here at the event. So, you know, we're continuing to do that. And it turns out that when it comes to anything analytics, machine learning, certainly so much of what you have to do is actually prepare the data, shape the data, get the data into the right format, apply the model, fit the model, test the model, operationalize the model, and Vertica's a great platform to do that. So that's a huge bet that we're continuing to ride and taking advantage of. And then some of the other things that we've just been seeing continue. I'll take object storage as an example. And I think Hadoop and what Hadoop went through ultimately was a huge part of this, but there's just a massive disruption going on in the world around object storage. You know, we've made several bets on S3 early. We created Vertica Eon mode, which separates compute and storage. And so for us, that separation is not just about being able to take care of, you know, take advantage of cloud economics as we do or the economics of object storage. It's also about being able to truly isolate workloads and start to set the sort of platform to be able to do very autonomous things in the database, so that the database could actually start self-analyzing without impacting any operational workloads. And so that continues with our partnership with Pure Storage on premise. We just announced that we're supporting Eon and Google Cloud now, in addition to Amazon, which we've supported. And we've got HDFS now being supported by our Eon mode. So we continue to ride on that mega trend as well. And then just the clouds in general, whether it's a public cloud, it's a private cloud on premise, giving our customers the flexibility and choice to run Vertica wherever it makes sense for them is something that we are very committed to from a flexibility standpoint. There's a lot of lock-in products out there. There's a lot of cloud-only products. Now more than ever, we're hearing from our customers that they want that flexibility to be able to run anywhere, but they want the ease of use and simplicity of native cloud experiences, which we're giving them as well. I want to stay on that architectural component for a minute and talk about separating compute from storage. It's not just about economics. I mean, in a part it is because you can, you know, gradually scale compute separate from storage as opposed to in chunks, it's more efficient. But you're saying there are other advantages to operational and workload specificity. What is unique about Vertica in this regard, however? I mean, others separate compute from storage. What's different about Vertica in that regard? Yeah, I think there's a lot of differences about how we do it. It's one thing if you're a cloud native company and you do it and you have a shared catalog that's a key value store that all of your customers are using and they're on the same one, frankly, it's probably more of a security concern than anything. But it's another thing when you give that capability to each customer on their own and they're fully protected, they're not sharing it with any other customers. And that's something that we hear a lot on the security side from our customers. They want to be able to separate compute and storage, but they wanna be able to do this in their own environment so that they know that in their data catalog, there's no one else's data being shared in that catalog. There's no single point of failure. So that's one huge advantage that we have. And frankly, I think it just comes from being a company that's operated on premise and up in the cloud. I think another huge advantage is that for us is, we don't know what object storage platform is gonna win nor do we necessarily have to. We designed EonMode so that it's an SDK. We started with S3, but it could be anything, HDFS, S3. I mean, who knows what object storage formats are going to be there. And then finally, beyond just the object storage, we're really one of the only database companies that actually allows our customers to natively operate on data in very different formats, like Parquet or if you're familiar with those in the Hadoop community. So we not only embrace this kind of object storage disruption, but we really embrace the different data formats. And what that means is our customers that have data pipelines that are fully automated and they're putting this information in different places, they don't have to completely reload everything to take advantage of the Vertica analytic platform. We can go where the data is, connect into it, and we offer them a lot of different ways to take advantage of those analytics. So those are a couple of unique differences with the Vertica. And again, I think our real advantage, in many ways by not being a cloud native platform is that we're very good at operating in different environments with different formats, changing formats over time. And I don't think a lot of the other companies out there are good at that. I think many, particularly many of the SaaS companies are scrambling, they even have challenges moving from say an Amazon environment to a Microsoft Azure environment with their offerings, because they've got so much unique Band-Aid, excuse me, in the background, just holding the system up that is native to any of those one particular cloud. All right, good. I'm going to summarize. I'm hearing from you, you're the Ferrari of databases, that we've always known. You're object store agnostic. It's the cloud experience that you can bring on-prem to virtually any cloud, all the popular clouds, hybrid, AWS, Azure, now Google, or on-prem and a variety of different data formats. And that is, I think, unique, the combination of those, I think is unique in the marketplace. Before we get into the news, I want to ask you about data silos, data silos. You mentioned HDFS, you and I met back in the early days of big data. In some respects, Hadoop helped break down the silos with distributing the data and leaving it in place. And in other respects, it created data lakes, which became silos. And so we have yet all these other silos. People are trying to get to a digital transformation, meaning putting data at their core, virtually, obviously, and leave it in place. What are your thoughts on that in terms of data being a silo buster? How does Vertica play there? Yeah, and you're absolutely right. I think even if you look at Hadoop, for all the new data that gets into Hadoop, in many ways it's created yet another large island of data that many organizations are struggling with because it's separate from their core traditional data warehouse. It's separate from some of the operational systems that they have. And so there might be a lot of data in there, but they're still struggling with how do I break it out of that large silo and or combine it? Again, I think some of the things that Vertica does and part of the announcement, which is part of Vertica 10, is migration tools to make it really easy if you do want to move it from one platform to another into Vertica, but you don't have to move it. You can actually take advantage of a lot of the data, where it resides with Vertica, especially in the Hadoop realm, with our external table storage, with our ability to read or can partake natively. So we're very pragmatic about how our customers go about this. Very few customers, many of them tried it with Hadoop and realized it didn't work, but very few customers want a wholesale, just say, all right, we're going to throw everything out, we're going to get rid of our data warehouse, we're going to hit the pause button and we're going to go from there. It's just, it's not possible to do that. So we've spent a lot of time investing in the product that can really work with them to go where the data is and then seamlessly migrate in when it makes sense to migrate it in. You mentioned the performance of Vertica and you talked about it as the Ferrari, it definitely is. And one of the things that we're really proud of with this is that it actually is not a gas gunsler easy either. I mean, one of the things that we're seeing against a lot of the other cloud databases is pound for pound, you get on a 10th the hardware of Vertica running up there, you get over 10th performance. We're seeing that a lot. So it's not just about the performance but it's about the efficiency as well. And I think that efficiency is really important when it comes to silos because there's just only so much horsepower out there and it's easy for cloud companies to play tricks and throw lots of servers at the environment when they start up. But for so many organizations that deal with on-prem and cloud and frankly looking at the bills they're getting from these cloud workloads that are running, they really have to be conscious of that. Yeah, the big energy companies love the gas guzzlers. There's a lot of cloud puke. But all right, let's get into the news. 10.0, you shared with the audience and your keynote. What are the highlights of 10.0? What do we need to know? Yeah, so again, doubling down on these mega trends, I'll start with machine learning and AI. We've done a lot of work to integrate so that you can take native PMML models, bring them into Vertica, run them massively parallel in Vertica, help shape your data, prepare it, do all the work that we know is required to do true machine learning and AI. And for all the hype that there is around it, this is real. People wanna do a lot of unsupervised machine learning whether it's for healthcare, fraud detection, financial services. So we've doubled down on that. We now also support things like TensorFlow. As I mentioned, we're gonna come up with the best algorithms. Our job is really to ensure that those algorithms that people are coming up with can be incorporated and we can run them against massive data sets super efficiently. So that's number one. Number two, on object storage, we continue to support more object storage platforms for Eon mode in the cloud. We're expanding to Google, GCP, Google's cloud beyond just Amazon, on-premise or in the cloud now. We're also supporting HDFS with Eon mode. And of course, we continue to have a great relationship with our partner Pure Storage for on-premise as well. But we continue to invest in Eon mode especially. I'm not gonna go through all the different things here, but it's not just sort of, hey, you support this and then you move on. There's so many different things that we learn about API calls and how to save our customers money and tricks on performance and things. And then the third area is we definitely continue to build on that flexibility of deployment, which is related to Eon mode with some of what I've already described. But it's also about simplicity. It's also about some of the migration tools that we've announced to make it easy to go from one platform to another. We have a great roadmap on ease of use, on security, on performance and scale. I mean, for us, those are the things that we're working on in every single release. We probably don't talk about them as much as we need to, but obviously they're critically important. And so we constantly look at every component in this product. Version 10 is a huge release for any product, especially an analytic database platform. And so we're just constantly revisiting some of the code base and figuring out how we can do it in new and better ways. And that's a big part of 10 as well. I'm glad you brought up the machine intelligence, the machine learning and AI piece because we would agree that it is real. And one of the things we've noted is that, the new innovation cocktail, it's not being driven by Moore's law anymore. It's really a combination of you've collected all this data over the last 10 years through Hadoop and other data stores, object stores, et cetera. Now you're applying machine intelligence to that. And then you've got the cloud for scale. And of course we talked about you bringing the cloud experience, whether it's on-prem or hybrid, et cetera. The reason why I think this is important, and I wanted to get your take on this is because you do see a lot of emerging analytic databases, cloud native, yes, they do suck up a lot of compute, but they also add a lot of value. And I really wanted to understand how you guys play in that new trend, that sort of cloud database, high performance, bringing in machine learning and AI and ML tools, and then turning data into insights. But what I'm hearing is you play directly in that and your differentiation is a lot of the things that we talk about, including the ability to do that both on-prem and in the cloud and across cloud. Yeah, I mean, I think that's a great point. We are a great cloud database. We run very well up on the three major clouds and you could already use some of the other clouds as well in other parts of the world. If you talk to our customers we have hundreds of customers who are running Vertica in the cloud, the experience is very good. I think it could always be better. We've invested a lot in taking advantage of the native cloud ecosystem so that provisioning and managing Vertica is seamless when you're in that environment and we'll continue to do that. But Vertica, excuse me, has a cloud platform is phenomenal and I think there's a lot of confusion out there. I think there's a lot of marketing dollars spent that won't name any of the companies here. I think we know who they are. You know, they're the cloud native data warehouse and it's true, you know, they're software as a service but if you talk to a lot of our customers they're getting very good and very similar experiences with Vertica on the cloud. We stop short of saying we're software as a service because ultimately our customers have that control and flexibility. They're putting Vertica on whichever cloud they wanna run it on, they're managing it. Stay tuned on that. I think you'll hear more from us about that front going even further. But we do really well in the cloud and I think Eon, so much of Eon and this has really been a sort of two and a half year endeavor for us but so much of Eon was designed around the cloud. It was designed around cloud, data lakes, S3, the separation of compute and storage. And if you look at the work that we're doing around containerization and a lot of these other elements it just takes that to the next level and there's a lot of great work. So I think we're going to continue to get better at cloud but I would argue that we're already and have been for some time very good at being a cloud analytic data platform. Well, since you opened the door I got to ask you, so I hear you from performance and architectural perspective but you're also alluding to, I think something else I don't know what you can share with us. You said stay tuned on that but I think you're talking about optionality maybe different consumption models. Am I getting that right? And can you share anything with us there? You're definitely getting that right and actually I'm glad you brought up the consumption model. I think a huge part of cloud is also has nothing to do with the technology. I think it's how you consume the product. Some companies want to rent the product and they want to rent it for a certain period of time. And so we allow our customers to do that. We have incredibly flexible models of how you provision and purchase our product. And I think that helps a lot. I am opening the door a little bit but look and we have customers that ask us if we can offer them more. If we can offer them platforms brought in we've had customers come to us and say please take over our HUPI systems and offer something as a distribution. As I said though, I think one thing that we've been really good at is focusing on what is our core and where we really offer value. But I can tell you that we introduced something called the Vertica Advisor Tool this year. And one of the things that the Vertica Advisor Tool does is it collects information from our customer environments on-premise or the cloud and we run through our own machine learning. We analyze the customer's environment and we make some recommendations automatically. And a lot of our customers are said to us, it's funny, we've tried managed service, tried SaaS offering. And you guys blow them away in terms of your ability to help us like automatically manage the Vertica environment and the system. Why don't you guys just take this product and convert it into a SaaS offering? So I won't go much further than that but you can imagine that there's a lot of innovation and a lot of thoughts going into how we can do that. But there's no reason that we have to wait and do that today and being able to offer our customers on-premise customers, that same sort of experience from a managed capability is something that we spend a lot of time thinking about as well. So again, just back to the automation, the ease of use, the going above and beyond, it's really exciting to have an analytic platform because we can do so much automation in the platform ourselves. And just like we're doing with the Vertica Advisor tool, we're leveraging our own Kool-Aid or Champagne dog food, however you want to say it, to in fact tune up and solve some optimizations for our customers automatically. And I think you're going to see that continue. And I think that could work really well on a bunch of different models. Well, Colin, just on a personal note, I've always enjoyed our conversations. I've learned a lot from you over the years. I'm bummed that we can't hang out in Boston, but hopefully soon this will blow over. I loved last summer when we got together, we had the Vertica throwback, we had Stormbreaker, Palmer, Lynch and Mahoney. We did a great series and that was a lot of fun. So it's a pleasure and thanks so much.  Yeah, you too, Dave. Stay safe. I really appreciate the opportunity and this is what it's all about. It's a lot of fun. I know we're going to see each other in person soon and it's the people in the community that really make this happen. So we're looking forward to that, but I really appreciate it. All right, and thank you everybody for watching. This is theCUBE coverage of the Vertica big data conference gone virtual, gone digital. I'm Dave Vellante. We'll be right back right after this short break.


Hi, I'm Lance Coyke and this is the deadlift. So the deadlift is one of my favorite exercises. I give some variation of this to every client that I work with, honestly. It's great for training the posterior chain of muscles, so to speak. That's the upper back, the lower back, the lats, the glutes, the hamstrings, even the calves to some extent. So what I wanna walk through today is how to do it correctly and then some common pitfalls that you might run into. So first, I want you to line up with your shins just barely away from the bar. And I like to teach it in two steps. So first, it's a Romanian deadlift. That's kind of like a stiff leg deadlift. If you don't know what that is, I'll link to it below. So shins stay about vertical and from here, what I'm gonna do is just squat down until my hands get to the bar, okay? I'm not gonna reach down like this. I'm just gonna squat down, okay? So it looks like this. Bend, squat, and now I just have to reverse it.  And then I use the lowering as a portion or as an opportunity to practice this movement, okay? One more. My hips back, squat, I push, and I come up. So what do people do when they do this wrong? First, when lining up, if you line up too far away from the bar and you never roll it back where it's supposed to be, your knees get in the way and you turn this deadlift into a squat. A deadlift is not a squat and I don't want you to pick the weight up the same way. Different variations of deadlifts are more like squats. So let's say if I'm standing on a block and I'm doing deadlifts from a deficit, we say, that's gonna require more knee flexion. It's gonna require more mobility to get down there. It's gonna look more like a squat. Trap bar deadlift or a hex bar deadlift, that's similar.  So if I line up too far away, I have to bring my knees forward so that I don't fall over or I don't just pitch over like this, okay? I'm trying to maximize my leverage. If I do this and I pick it up, then my knees never get out of the way or I fall forward and my heels come up or I do this and then just let's it up with my back. Okay, so those are not ideal. All we're trying to do is maximize leverage. I want you to be the most efficient lifter you can and you'll put more weight on the bar. So lining up too far away, what else can we do? So even if I line up correctly, it's still easy to turn this into just kind of an RDL here, just a really deep RDL. And now you see I don't have knee bend. I'm not going to drive through my legs to get the bar off the ground. I'm not going to recruit my quads to get the bar off the ground. Instead, this is more of a hip back kind of lift and it requires a lot of mobility. If you're going to do it safely, most people don't have that mobility.   What I'm looking for is in a good lift, that back angle, as I push through the floor to get the bar to my knee, that back angle stays relatively the same, okay?  If my shoulders come up too quick, I pull the bar into my knee. What I want, that's not maximizing leverage, right? And that's the main goal of how we're trying to get good form with a deadlift. I want to maximize leverage. So I don't want it to turn into a back lift and I don't want it to get blocked by my knee. So those are the main faults you're going to run into. We talked about pitching over too far. We talked about rearing your shoulders up too quickly. We talked about lining up too far away from the bar. Now, the deadlift has a bunch of different variations and maybe someday I'll go into all of them, but we talked about the Romanian deadlift. That's like half of the deadlift, okay? That's a really good way to start learning this pattern. If you can't do a good Romanian deadlift, I probably won't have you deadlift yet. What else could we do? A deficit deadlift where my feet are elevated and I have to go down a lot further. I'm only gonna give that to people who have demonstrated that they have the mobility required to do that difficult technique. You could load extra weight on the bar with chains so that it gets heavier at the top and lighter at the bottom. You could do the same thing with bands, either pulling the bar up or pulling the bar back down to the ground. Tons of different variations. Let me know in the comments below what your favorite one is and if you have any questions, holler.


Today, I continue the race to 100 wins against my twin. Along the way, I run into my favorite streamer, and we try the VCT MVP's aim routine. Find out which twin wins more games. Yeah, she's here. He's got boys. He will. The 4K King, bro! I buy, I buy, I buy. He's flanked, flanked, flanked. Bro, I was lagging, bro. I couldn't move. I didn't want to shoot. Just backside. I'm tanked. I tell the one right side. Two more right side pushing in. I'm out. I think we load it. I have one bull. One bull. One drop in me, right? You can... Man, just play like this, bro. Nice job, man. Well, she's held up. She's held up. She's upset. He is mad. I'm blinded. One more, one more. Yeah, I won't spray my entire clip for one kill. I think he re-aggresses. He's kind of confident. Yep, so obvious the way these people play. My aim was as good as my game sense. I'd be radiant, no bulls. CT. I'll CT. I'll CT. I'll CT. I'll CT. I'll CT. I'll CT. I'll CT. I'll CT. I'll CT. I'll CT. No, no, no, no, no, no. Two back side. Two back side. One more back side. That's close. Keep holding. Nice, yeah. Sky's back side. Holding, EJ. Nice. Well, let's go. Great round. I've got your treat. Siphon, then one. Four, sorry. Two, one more. Nobody's on ladder though. Let's go. You take the three piece. Last players standing. Oh, I'm deeming one bro. I'm deeming one I'm Odin. I haven't got a dude. I haven't gone Odin in a bit. It's kind of toxic, but maybe we go Odin here That's it for episode three of the race to 100 wins the score is 14 to 16 and Blake has the lead Click here to watch the next episode when it goes up and join us on twitch to watch live link in the description


Good afternoon, everyone. It's good to see you back here as we begin the fall session of the legislative assembly. It is a real thrill to see so many of you here in person on the Terrestrial Territory of Lekongen speaking people. I only have a brief comment at the beginning which is to say that I will be leaving this afternoon to head to San Francisco. Not for the Labor Day weekend show of the day. I will be meeting with Gavin Newsom, the governor of California. Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington as well as Kate Brown, governor of Oregon as we continue the work of the Pacific Coast Collaborative to put in place an MOU on climate action and I won't tell you more about that because then you'll have nothing to write about tomorrow. With that, I will pass it over to Lindsay and we will go from there. One question, one follow-up. I'm going to start with Linda Sagan, CTV. For months now of course we've seen a huge increase in the number of glass windows that have been smashed in downtown Vancouver. And now also the Olympic Cauldron and the Comagato Memorial have been smashed over the last couple of days. First of all, kind of like your reaction to seeing these kind of treasured monuments being smashed and also what can the province do to stop this senseless vandalism from happening and to punish those who are responsible? Well, like all British Columbians, I'm horrified when I see bad behavior, vandalism, recklessness with other people's property and particularly when it comes to those iconic images that belong to all of us. The Olympic Cauldron is an example of that. A monument to the Comagato very important to recognize and acknowledge that stain on our history, and to recognize the importance of history. But with respect to enforcement, these are largely local law enforcement issues. We continue to work with law enforcement to ensure that they have all of the tools that they need. And I would say to those who believe that vandalism is a way to draw attention to yourself or bring some sort of societal change, you're on the wrong track. People don't want to see that. People react viscerally and negatively to the most recent examples. That being the attack on the Cauldron at Jack Fould Plaza, we've got these perpetrators on film and I know law enforcement will be following up on that. And your plastics on it. Yes. Am I? Oh my gosh, I didn't even know it was on the spot. You're used to the spotlight, aren't you? Nurses are rallying right now in downtown Vancouver. And of course, as you know, they have a long list of complaints about ER closures, weightless, workload and staffing levels. And also state on the job. So what is your government prepared to do to improve working conditions for nurses? Well, we are currently entering into negotiations with the BC Nurses Union and a range of other public sector workforces. And that's a good place to have these conversations. And I know that we have a lot of compensation in terms of the challenges of shortages. But I have said, as you know, repeatedly for many months now, that the human resource strategy which we just recently announced, I was hoping would be buttressed by support from Ottawa with a national plan. Because the issues that we're experiencing here in British Columbia are duplicated in every other province in the country as well. It's almost a year since the federal government has been working tirelessly. We have a national strategy means that there's not poaching. Those provinces that have more fiscal capacity, like British Columbia, are in a better position to recruit and retain healthcare workers than smaller provinces that don't have the same fiscal room to do that. That's why the federal government needs to be at the table so we can have a national plan. But I do know Minister Dix has been working tirelessly. He's been working tirelessly. He's been working tirelessly. And I think that with the improvements in recognizing foreign credentials, those issues are already underway. And of course at the bargaining table, we'll hear directly from representatives of the BC nurses union about where they believe we should go. And that's where those discussions should stay. Next question, Richard Zestman. Global news. Do you agree with your Attorney General's statement that you would like to see those who have perpetrated the crime held responsible for their actions? I fully agree with the statement you just made that people who see crime and see perpetrators being not dealt with aggressively. I'm frustrated by that. But I also share the view of the Attorney General as does the new member from Surrey South who said virtually the same thing in August. BC liberal with a law enforcement background said we can't arrest our perpetrators. It's a multi-faceted problem. And we're taking a number of initiatives to address it. One off the top was to put in place an all-party committee to review the police act. Because it's a 50-year-old document. And clearly, and this is I think representative of the first question I was asked by your colleague, is that these issues seem to be more pronounced now than ever before. We have more technology, more ability to track and monitor perpetrators and the law enforcement doesn't necessarily have the tools to address that. And so we need to make changes in that regard. When it comes to the prosecution service , there has been no change in direction to the prosecution service for at least a decade, which would include two different governments. Largely constrained by federal precedent, federal court precedents about intrusions and interventions with respect to prosecutions. So for the BC liberals who followed the same course that we are on the current head of the prosecution service, the only thing they could fall back on I suppose is that they are putting more money into it, but that's not true either. We have increased the budgets of prosecution services so that we can get more done in our courtrooms. We have put more money into a whole host of other issues with respect to mental health and addictions, as you know. So we are trying to come at this in a multifaceted way, which is exactly what was suggested by the new member for Surrey South. I think that's a good point. It's been consistent. I know the federal government finds some of that, but there seem to be a mention of that yesterday that could be something your government would consider. That was recommended by the opposite of that. In fact, they highlighted the rationale for not having politicians interfere in law enforcement and prosecutions. I think that's a precedent I would want to uphold, but at the same time I would like to point out to all of you on their television screens, what they are reading in their newspapers, and what they are actually feeling in their communities. I would say to those people who are fearful in their own home towns, that members of the legislature of all parties come from somewhere. We all come from a community and we are equally concerned about the well-being of our loved ones and our neighbors. We need a concerted effort by all of us to address this. We would continue to keep this debate at a high level, but unfortunately we are in a place now where accusations are being made incorrectly by the official opposition, one which was that Mr. LePard had suggested that we interfere, which he did not, and also taking issue with Minister Rankin's comments, which are absolutely the same almost word for word to what a newly elected BC liberal who has a strong background in public safety. These are not partisan questions. I am hopeful that we can keep that debate at a high level so the public can have confidence that we are all working on this together because we are all affected by it. Is there any accuracy to the suggestion that both major projects, infrastructure projects and ministries are given an October deadline to submit their briefing notes to the Premier's office almost suggesting that your office thinks that the new Premier could be in by October and does that mean that there is an effort to disqualify Angelia for dying? That is a misrepresentation of what is going on. When elections are called, if they are not on a fixed calendar, immediately the public service begins putting together transition binders in the eventuality of change. The minute I made my announcement public that I was not going to seek out any of these documents, I had the time to step down. The process of creating these documents started. To suggest that we have them in early so they can be reviewed, I think is prudence. I would expect that most British Colombians would prefer we don't do our homework the night before but in fact we are prepared. That means when we get these documents we can ensure that we look at them and see if there are any errors or errors. If they are errors, there is a error and a error is not available. If there is an error in the case of a depot, a mountain out of a molehill, a twitter dome explosion by a bunch of partisans who want to make misdrifts. If that gets them off, I'm tumbling rocks and going efficient myself. Follow up, Kitty. On the... Sorry. But the NDP government, 73% of British Columbians said that NDP government is not doing enough on inflation, health care, and affordability. And so does that create a problem for the government when you exit that your popularity is much higher than that of the government? I think that we need to separate the issues out. Personal popularity or confidence in individuals is one thing. I'm equally concerned about inflation. As those who experience the same issues, I would have probably had the same answers. And I'm the leader of the government. So it's not unusual for people to say there are things in the community that I would like to see improvements on, or I don't believe enough is being done. But the challenge of government is that we have to manage all of those balls at the same time, not just the one that hits the top of the polling charts. Admittedly, the issues around housing are the same for the five years that I've had the opportunity to be premier. And we have been systematically increasing expenditures on more housing, trying to find ways to encourage development and municipalities, and we'll keep doing that. So I don't think when I see emphasis on issues in public opinion polls, I think that's a good barometer not just for governments, but for the public. To say, yeah, that's how I felt. Those are the concerns that I have as well. And I think that's what I believe, more opportunity to lean into those issues without, you know, if we have to leave one behind or two issues behind as we focus on the ones that are top of mind, I think there's a better understanding of why that happens because of the emphasis in a poll. So I don't think it's a bad thing. I think it's an instrument for government and oppositions to better focus the discussions we have in the legislature. I think that's one of the concerns about provinces poaching health care workers from each other and how you'd like to avoid that. I'm wondering if you maybe comment on Alberta is calling and it's their campaign there. Obviously, they're very keen to do that. Yeah. Well, that's an outgoing premier. So we're going to be in a club. He and I, Kenny and Horgan consulting, I suppose, we joke about that from the left to the right. Everything you need right in one place. And I think that's consistent. The Alberta approach is inconsistent with what provinces have been doing for the past four or five years that I'm aware of. And I'm told by the council of the Federation staff that there's been a consistent message on health care because it's so profoundly important to all Canadians that there be a direct focus on that from Ottawa so that we can have a national strategy for Alberta to encourage people to come and work there. They have a younger workforce, a lot of people who are in the community, they would need to do that, but they do and will carry on regardless. But I think most people make their choices about where they want to live based on family, based on climate, based on opportunity. And if Jason Kenny calls somebody and says come to Alberta, they might go, they might not. I know that what we need is a national strategy on not just, quite frankly, not just on health care, but on how we can do that. Just to follow up, Justine? Just, I mean, at the same time, we don't want to be losing doctors and oncologists, any of these highly-trained health professionals to other provinces. So how do you, for people here, like do we need a VCs call in camp? Well, we are working on a range of items. We are sitting for the first time in my memory and I've got a good memory and I've been here for a long time. Sitting down with the doctors of BC to work out how we address the differences between a doctor who has just come from med school and a doctor who is at the end of their career. And we have many, many 70 and 75 and older physicians who have businesses that they want to protect. That's their investment for the future. And we have doctors who have just graduated who are more concerned about their student loans than they are about the costs of their practice. So it's not like all doctors are the same and I think why we're making progress is because government is acknowledging that and doctors are acknowledging that, that there is a continuum as there is in all walks of life between those who are just starting and those that are coming to the end of their careers. So I see progress on that front and retention is the big challenge and that involves trying to find creative ways to make that happen. I am the director of the local mayor of the local constituency, a former local mayor, not of my persuasion, who has a family foundation who is working hard across party lines to find ways for municipalities to be a participant in the recruitment and retention component, housing, making sure that there are ways to reduce costs for starting a practice if you want to have a business, if you want to have a, you know, hire the staff and others are saying we want the province to hire the staff, we want to manage the records and we need to find the balance between all of those but the good news in my mind and I am relentlessly optimistic about this is that if we all bear down and we all find ways to increase our ability to retain people, the recruitment will become that much easier because it is a welcoming environment, opportunities for young practitioners, whether they be nurses, nurse practitioners, doctors, carer aides, technologists, whoever, to come here, state of the art post secondary institutions and a track record of success in delivering those services. I think that we have a lot to offer. I am not making calls to people like Jason Kenny but that is his choice. I believe we should, instead of putting up a flag saying come here, we should demonstrate to those who are already here the value of staying and that word will catch across the country and if people want to come here they will. I am not going to encourage that. How does it feel to be in your last session as premier? Good. I don't know what to say. Good. I love this place and I love the work but I also know that everything has a season and mine is near done and I am anxious to get on to other pursuits but also comfortable that the province is in good hands not just by the team that I had the good fortune of leading but also looking at other members of the legislature, the public service, there is going to be change and revitalization at the municipal tables and local governments as well. I believe that people are going to be content and happy with where we are going. There is going to be frustrations and there will be poll upon poll that will tell you that and you will ask whoever replaces me these questions but I am going to miss it a lot. Do you have a follow-up, Alec? I was just going over this. Any advice for whoever turns out to be your successor? Always duck early. When you see the brick coming at you, be kind. Always. I learned that from Dr. Henry. I would like to think I learned it from my mom but it was reinforced by Dr. Henry that until you have walked a mile in someone's shoes, you are going to be in opposition. Your business is to be critical. In government, your business is to be hopeful and focused on finding solutions. I will not miss the prospect of another minute in opposition but I will miss the opportunity to make progress for people. That is why all of us, regardless of our political persuasion, all of us get into this business because we want to make our community stronger and better and help those who need help. It is not a partisan thing until you know what their strike is. If you lose, maybe try again or maybe you don't. I am not trying again. Last line, Tons Connist. Thank you. The assistant deputy minister of prosecution, Peter Jukic, in a lengthy statement two weeks ago. It is hard to summarize but he disputed the whole system or belief that the criminal system, justice system is broken. He took issue with the phrase catch and release and he cited the crime rate is as low now as it has ever been. Two weeks later, there is a bit of a disparity between their approaches. The part butler acknowledged the extreme frustration and the angst and said crime stats don't provide the full picture of what is going on in DC. I just wonder where Mr. Jukic came from, what is the origin behind that rather unusual statement and is everybody in your government to change on this issue whether it is important or not? I think we are on the same page that is important. Mr. Jukic's comments speak for themselves and I would encourage you to follow up in whatever avenues you can pursue there. What I do know is that we asked Butler and Lepard to look at the issue of repeat offenders which was not the sole focus of the report that Mr. Jukic was referring to and in question earlier today about what I would characterize as crimes that would not emerge as statistics until charges are laid and convictions are realized. We are seeing and hearing about crime every day and those aren't manifesting in those numbers. I believe the public has a genuine and real concern about what is happening in their communities, my community as well and the communities of the leader of the Slicer General and every other member of the legislature. I don't want to get into a dueling report issue less. I think you are erudite enough to navigate all of that. I would say this is a genuine concern of the public and we need to make sure we are doing everything we can to reduce that anxiety by demonstrating there has been progress. I do take issue with the catch and release thing as well. I would like to think that we have been in the business of trying to solve the problems and that is not done by a handful of words that is done by hard work and collaboration and that is going to be the essence of the government going forward I am sure. The prosecution service has pretty much complete independence from the political sphere. Most people accept that but there is a statutory mechanism that the politicians can direct the prosecution by issuing that directive that was referred to a couple of days ago. Is there any consideration in your government at this present about issuing some kind of directive to the prosecution service to address the perceptions that Bill releases the rule rather than the exception and the detention is just not on for most offenders these days. I don't know if that is actually correct most offenders these days so I can't speak to that last bit but I understand your sentiment and again I would say to your readers and to the public that every effort is being made to address these issues we have invested more in increasing the prosecution service than previous governments but there has been no directive issued by this government that is the federal constraints that we talked about earlier and you know well. The challenge I think we have is that we have asked, we started the police work as I said, we are working on mental health and addictions issues that are also part and parcel of the crime and the senselessness in my mind of these wanton attacks randomly at people who are just going about their business. The act is criminal but the perpetrator clearly has some challenges. This is not normal behavior to do what we have been seeing and you have been reporting so ably. So we need to address all of these issues concurrently. That means more continuing care for those who need it, more housing for those who can't find it but more importantly we need to go back to some of the challenges that have been raised. I haven't thought about going down this road but to have the opposition who were in the business of firing health care workers say that we don't have enough when we have hired more than they did in their whole term to have the same group of people say we are not doing enough on crime when they turned a blind eye to gang activity in the billions of dollars is laughable and I think the public gets right and who's wrong. They want demonstration of progress and you do that by collaborating having urban mayors standing shoulder to shoulder as we did with the solicitor general, the attorney general and the authors of the report last week I think demonstrates to the public that effective capable people are working on this and I'm hopeful that the arrival of the new member for Surrey South will also bring some discussion debates here and get us away from the bumper stickers and more to the solution oriented approach and I know that's tough for oppositions but I think the public would prefer to hear some solutions from the opposition rather than claiming that everything has gone to Helen Hambasket. You mentioned a couple of times trying to show the public progress on health care. Do you feel like you have the room to make decisions right now to show progress on health care and prolific offenders when there's another leader who's going to step into your job in the weeks ahead and do you feel constrained in any way on the things you might be able to do or the money you might be able to spend or the decisions you might be able to make without sort of handcuffing the next person in the job to do that. I think that's just my cabinet that I was going to step down. I also and I advise all of you at that time that I had every intention of focusing on doing the job until I wasn't doing it anymore and I've had no push back from anyone within government about that. My team continues to set directions to the cabinet met this morning. We went through a range of issues to continue that work on a range of other issues. I don't feel constrained at all. I made it clear that we had a mandate granted to us by the people of BC two years ago and we're going to fulfill that. The mandate letters are active until they're changed. I've had no and the system I have to say again having spent 30 years in and around this time I've had the system outside the system elected in executive council that the professional public service has done extraordinary things in the past five years. As all British Columbians have, I don't want to single out in that way. We've gone through a global pandemic, a toxic drug supply, natural natural catastrophes that we couldn't have imagined in the past and we started in some cases, which is not normally how government works. I think the system has been very responsive to the expectation of the public that because we have instantaneous communication, I see colleagues looking at their telephones, I'm sure you're not playing Scrabble like I would be doing, but you're doing things, you're interacting and you're moving issues forward, the system has been doing that as well. I don't believe anyone has been constrained by what happens. We've got binders prepared that will be reviewed and if there are changes to happen, that will happen after I'm gone, but as of today and throughout the next number of weeks, I fully intend to keep on moving the ball forward, which is what I intended to do when I was first elected. What do you make of the liberal strategy in the first two questions here? Your ministers have stood up and they've turned around and said show us the results. Show us the real world results where things seem to be getting worse. It's sort of this disconnect between the public on you increase the crowd prosecution budget but crime, random crime is up and people are scared. You've increased the healthcare recruiting but people are dying in emergency rooms waiting for care. That disconnect, what do you make of it? I understand how the public would go and why are they saying this and this is my lived experience. This is what I'm seeing in my community and I get that and the job of government and I would argue without putting too much pressure on all of you, the job is to explain these things. Not just to, and I'm easy for me to say, but taking the catch and release issue that less referenced. You all know that that's nonsense but yet that's become part and parcel of the way we discuss this very important issue. Rather than burrowing down to the mental health issues, burrowing down to the challenges of past practice and that's why you bring in experts to look at these things with new eyes and again why there's a need for renewal in all of our institutions in elected offices, in media across the board. We need to make sure we're constantly looking these things anew and instead of wasting a slogan, we should dig a little bit deeper. One example this week was there were more police than protesters here on the opening day and what I heard was you're not doing good enough on X or Y and someone that it was a disembodied voice but it sounded like someone who did not have a lot of life experience talking about things that have been going on in BC for 150 years that won't be turned around in a nanosecond. Again, I'm not I don't want to piss any of you guys off because you're still by ink by the ton so I'll just leave it at that but the disconnect is a result of everybody not just governments, not just oppositions but everybody, the conversations at the hockey rink. If you've got an opportunity I would say to those watching if you've got an opportunity to correct someone who you think is wrong or to engage in a discussion about the complexities of life I think you'll have more heads nods at the end of the day and a bit of despondency is not better, but the best way to make things better is to step up and participate get involved and I hope people will do that. Last question today, Dirk Meisner C.P. Thanks very much. You said you're going to California tomorrow but we also did say you can't say much about it but can you at least or can you say what you're hoping to achieve what could be discussed there and what you would like to see discussed. The province of British Columbia not just this government but going back a number of years have been working with our west coast neighbors the Pacific Coast Collaborative on a range of economic, social and environmental issues. Most recently the focus has been on climate change and the consequences to our jurisdictions. When we look to the fire seasons and the drought devastating droughts in California the impacts of those issues all the way up the coast the conditions and the impact on salmon. Salmon are not just an iconic species. They're iconic to Californians as well as Oregonians and Washingtonians. So what we're going to do is what we've been doing for some time is finding ways to collaborate on these issues. The Nooksack river for example is one of those cross border issues that requires Washington and British Columbia to work together. But there's a whole range of issues that we can deal with as well as British Columbia and whenever we can build relationships at the political level supported by the infrastructure in my case the intergovernmental relations secretariat as well as the climate action group and economic innovation I'll be going to the Silicon Valley to talk about recruiting more tech companies and more tech workers back to BC so it's an opportunity to do all those things but the focus is going to be on climate and the challenges for jurisdictions they're facing. We had a conference earlier in September that laid the ground work for the signing we're going to do in San Francisco. A couple weeks ago the seniors advocate came up with the report and her conclusions were that British Columbia ranks at the bottom of in Canada with financial supports for seniors in BC. I'm just wondering what your response to that is. Well I have a great deal of respect for Ms. McKenzie and the work that she does I did not dive deeply into the report Dirk so I can't give you an informed answer on that question but I do know that we have been increasing supports for seniors since we came to government significantly the safer grants and others we reduced costs I don't know if she quantified seniors paying MSP premiums a range of other initiatives to reduce costs for people obviously seniors aren't looking at their child care savings but there's been significant child care savings as well as grandparents perhaps they're seeing some advantages there more free time for themselves but I do know that there's always more work to do I think that's the only way to really answer your question is that we take advice from representatives like the seniors representative and again Ms. McKenzie did extraordinary work on long-term care facilities and when you look across the country through COVID because of the work that she had done to prepare the new government our government to start that work when COVID hit we were in a much better position than Quebec for example where Mr. Legault despite good outcomes at the end of the pandemic had some big big challenges particularly in long-term care as did Mr. Ford in Ontario so because of the work of Ms. McKenzie to highlight the shortcomings of former government we were able to start making progress but that means there's still more work to do and I welcome her inputs at all times I apologize I haven't read the report that's all the time we have thank you for joining us okay yeah thanks


Seeing no further introductions, it's therefore time for members' statements. The member from Whitby Oshawa. Thank you, Speaker. In November 2017, the Durham Community Legal Clinic and Durham College established a five-year pilot project to create an access to justice hub in the region of Durham. Speaker, through this new partnership, the clinic will expand to provide advice on provincial offenses and small claim matters. Further, the hub will create a free income tax clinic and work with the region of Durham to develop learning modules for the public service providers on how to access benefits to local income residents. The access to justice hub speaker will provide this assistance by combining the knowledge, resources and supervision of the Durham Community Legal Clinic with paralegal students from Durham College. This type of program for paralegal students has never been offered in Ontario and is an innovative approach to training paralegals. I want to recognize the great work of both the Durham Community Legal Clinic and Durham College for their partnership, which will be a great resource for many residents in the region of Durham. And thank you very much, Speaker. Thank you, Speaker. On Friday, April 27, the Cardiac Fitness Institute at London Health Sciences Centre will close its doors after 30 years of helping Londoners to recover from cardiac events and more importantly to maintain their health. Many of the CFI's 2,000 patients have credited Dr. Larry Patrick, the cardiologist who founded the program, with literally keeping them alive. Dr. Patrick understands the value of long-term cardiac maintenance following acute rehab care, whether that means participating in regular exercise programs or just coming in for annual checkups, monitoring and stress tests. The closure of the CFI has created huge anxiety for these 2,000 patients. Those who attended weekly CFI exercise classes will be referred to the Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging at Western, where CFI equipment will be moved. But the vast majority of the CFI patients, approximately 1,700, only saw Dr. Patrick once or twice a year. Many are still waiting to be connected to another cardiologist. They feel abandoned and are worried about their ongoing care. Speaker, this government claims to be committed to evidence-based decision-making. The CFI has 30 years of data, evidence that could be used to measure the impact of long-term cardiac rehab. I am once again calling on the Liberals to step in and stop the closure of the CFI, at least until the data has been analyzed. It may be that the $300,000 required for the CFI is the best investment the government can make to keep cardiac patients alive. Without the research, we will never... Thank you for the member statements. The member. This year. Well, thank you, Speaker. Toronto Sports teams are on a roll. We are the reigning Great Cup champions. We are the reigning MLS champions. And the Jays are now off to a fantastic start with a 12-5 record. And now, for the second time in 16 years, both the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Toronto Raptors have made the playoffs in the same season. Toronto is buzzing as we cheer on DeRosin and Lowery of the Toronto Raptors and Matthews and the rest of the young guns from the Leafs. Not only has this brought tremendous energy and excitement to our great city, but their success has brought great economic benefits as well. And when it comes to sports fans, we know a few things. They like to watch the game live. They like to drink while they watch the game. And they like to eat while they watch the game. And with both the Toronto Raptors and the Maple Leafs in the playoffs, tourism is reaping the benefits. Yeah, absolutely. Tonight, as the Toronto Maple Leafs take on the Boston Runes, thousands, thousands of sports fans will be congregating at local bars and down at Maple Leaf Square to cheer on the home team. I know which bar I will be watching the game in tonight. During last year's playoff run, spending at bars near Air Canada Centre surged 64% and spending at downtown bars increased 54%. Matthew has the potential to make a restaurant's entire year. Speaker, I know this. On Tuesday, when the Toronto Raptors played the Washington Wizard, it was impossible to find a hotel room. Fortunately, Speaker, there's another city entirely not reaping all these benefits. But let's hope, Speaker, next year we'll all be able to join us in the playoff excitement for at least a round two. So tonight, go Leafs, go! Go Leafs, go! And let's go, Raptors! Go Leafs, go! They're members, latest member from Wellington Hall and Hills. Mr. Speaker, early Wednesday morning I was pleased to be able to get back to Halton Region to congratulate and thank officials from Wilford Laurier University and Conestoga College upon their plans to build a new, innovative academic centre of excellence in the town of Milton. Laurier is considered to be one of Canada's top comprehensive universities and is considered to be the top university in the country in terms of student satisfaction. Conestoga's graduate employment and graduate satisfaction rates are consistently amongst the highest in Ontario. Their partnership will become a beacon. This is nothing less than the future of post-secondary education in Ontario. When completed, the new Milton Education Village will be a 400-acre, purpose-built, fully integrated neighbourhood located near the 401 and adjacent to the Niagara Scarpment. With a focus on the STEAM disciplines, meaning science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, the new post-secondary campus is planned to eventually serve 2,000 students in the coming years. For my constituents in Wellington-Halton Hills, it represents a new post-secondary learning option close to home, bringing together theory and practice and rethinking the way we train people, as was said at the event. This project has been in the works for many years and I know you've supported it, Mr. Speaker. And successive councils and staff, the town of Milton, as well as the region of Halton and the other community partners all deserve enormous credit for their commitment and vision. As a Laurier alumnus, as Waterloo reach an MPP from 1999 to 2007, working with Conestoga College and for the past decade, a Halton MPP, I was glad to add my own voice and support this proposal and express that support on the floor of the house. We all look forward, with anticipation to its completion, as together we embrace the promise of Ontario's future. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I won't say anything about the prop that you held in your hand as a Laurier magazine because I'm an alumni too, so I thought maybe I'd just let that one slip. Further member, Stavis, the member from Nickelbelt. Thank you, Speaker. Foliet is an incorporated community in the northwest corner of my writing. The town population is a little bit over 100. It was created during the construction of the CNR in 1912. They celebrated 100th anniversary and they are home to a family of albino moose. They're white. They're beautiful. It's off Highway 101, midpoint between Timmins and Chaplot. It is over 100 kilometres in either direction to get to the closest pharmacy, funeral home, hospital, dentist, optometrist, high school, long-term care home, or 400 kilometres to drive to Sudbury as none of those services exist in their community. It is a typical northern rural remote community. The government talks a good game about their fair hydro plan for northern rural community. It's supposed to bring their bills down by 50%. Well, it's not true, Speaker. William and Shirley Visana share their hydro bills with me. They pay $64 for electricity, $51 in delivery charges. Maybe the association just next door paid $55 for electricity and $78 for delivery. The now privatised hydro one decided to reclassify Foliet as a high density. Foliet embodies northern rural and remote, but not to Hydro One. This is wrong. The people of Foliet are being gouged. I think it's a parting insult to my constituents from the Liberal Party. The NDP intends to change this, Speaker. Change it for the better. Thank you. Further Member of State? It's the Member from Trinity, Spadina. Thank you, Speaker. Good afternoon. Vibrant communities such as my in Tunis, Spadina are made stronger when affordable space are available for the artists and cultural organisations. That is why I'm proud of this year's budget, because it shares the City of Toronto's interest in supporting our most cherished cultural space, like Forward Richmond, Artescape and many others alike. Mr. Speaker, our budget states the following, and I quote, The province will provide the City of Toronto with the authority to design and minister a new program to provide property tax reduction for up to 50% to qualifying facility that offers affordable space for the arts and cultural sector. The City will have full discretion to determine which cultural facility will be eligible. Our City councillors have voted on this, and it has passed, and this will happen. We need to keep our arts and cultural sector strong and well supported, Mr. Speaker. That is why I heard, that's what I've heard from residents and virtually all stakeholders involved in arts. Artists and community members alike in my writing ask us to save Forward Richmond, and our 2018 budget is doing exactly that. Thank you, Speaker. Further member statements? The member from Niagara, West Glenbrook. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Our rise today to bring recognition to the farmers who put food on the tables of Ontario's families. The life of a farmer is not an easy one. There are early mornings, late evenings, and all around, long days spent in hard work, planting, reaping, caring for livestock, bringing animals in from the field. Even with modern technological advancements and crop insurance, the weather can be unpredictable, as we've seen this year, as can your yield. In an age of uncertainty surrounding international free trade agreements and changing weather patterns that threaten traditional ways of farming, small town farming communities in Ontario often struggle to make ends meet. As the son of a pork and poultry farmer myself, born and raised on a 100-acre farm in the heart of Niagara, I understand these struggles. I stand today on behalf of the agricultural community across Niagara West Glenbrook and Ontario, farmers who are frustrated that after 15 years of liberal waste, scandal and mismanagement in the province of Ontario, they pay more, get less, and are neglected by a government that is too busy taking care of its insider friends and fat cat elites to pay any attention to the plight of hardworking farmers and entrepreneurs. I'm proud to be part of a PC party that recognizes and celebrates the importance of rural Ontario and our farming communities. I wish to recognize all the hardworking farmers in my riding of Niagara West Glenbrook and thank them for their contributions. Farmers truly do feed cities, Mr. Speaker. I'm looking forward to change our works for the people that is coming soon. Thank you, Speaker, and I rise today to share that for the last two weeks, my constituency office has hosted artwork from local artist Isabel Mazata. Isabel is the art instructor for the Creative Arts Day program at Horizons for Youth, a fantastic organization and youth shelter in my riding of Davenport. This display is also very special because it showcases the work of several emerging artists at the Horizons for Youth Center. Horizons for Youth believes in using a strength-based, holistic approach informed by best practices which allows the youth to be an active member of the creation of content and concepts covered in the arts programming. At Horizons, youth continuously look forward to participating in the Creative Arts program as a program provides them the opportunity to connect with their peers, fine-tune their artistic skills, and ultimately provides them a temporary escape to the current reality of living in the shelter system. One individual whom I had the distinct pleasure of meeting on the exhibit's opening night was a young entrepreneur named Joelle Zola. A recent CBC article highlighted the fact that in 2014, Joelle founded Street Voices, a magazine giving platform to marginalize voices and he did this all the while he was homeless. Joelle's success is truly inspirational and a shining example of the positive impacts that programs like Horizons for Youth have on the lives of young people in my community and across the city every day. This display will be in my office until the end of April, and I encourage everyone to stop by for a visit to see the amazing work of these amazing youth. Thank you. I'm pleased to rise today to report the results of a survey from my recent newsletter, and I want to thank everyone who participated and shared their thoughts. Mr. Speaker, my constituents are concerned about this government's wasteful spending. 92% told me they believe there is government waste that could be better spent on other services, including health care services for seniors. The majority of respondents told me their health care hasn't improved in the last 10 years and that's unacceptable. They also struggled with hydro increases that forced them to choose between paying their hydro bills and other necessities. Mr. Speaker, life for people in Ontario is more and more unaffordable while hydro executives are getting huge raises. Another area of concern that was raised often is the proposed landfill site and the risk to our drinking water. In my survey, 94% said they believe municipalities should have the say in the location of landfills. They believe local governments should have a voice on issues that directly affect their communities. And I agree, that's why I introduced Bill 16, Respecting Municipal Authority over Landfills Act. The people of Oxford support their communities, not only by protecting their water but by supporting small businesses, which is why 96% reported that they shop local. It's great to see so many people taking the time to support our local businesses. Again, I thank all my constituents who took the time to respond to my survey so I can continue to share their concerns with this legislature. Thank you very much. Thank all members for their statements. It's their time for reports by committees.


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