00:00Please welcome the Prime Minister of Canada,
00:02Le Très Honorable, The Right Honorable Mark Carney.
00:23Thank you, Melissa, merci, Julie, bonjour, tout le monde.
00:30Joyeux fêtes du Canada, happy Canada Day!
00:37Son Excellence, Your Excellency, The Right Honorable Louise Arbour,
00:43National Chief, Cindy Woodhouse, President Obed, President Pruden,
00:49The Right Honorable Justin Trudeau.
00:52Justin, merci d'être venu, merci pour tout que tu as fait pour notre pays, merci.
01:00My fellow Canadians, what a view from up here.
01:05I am looking out, I am looking out at a diverse, happy crowd of fellow Canadians,
01:13and I tell you, this fills me with immense pride.
01:17You get real perspective of our great country from up here.
01:23But I am up here as a warm-up act, because you are going to hear in a moment
01:31from someone who has had a truly unique perspective from a far higher height.
01:40Colonel Jeremy Hansen.
01:48And Jeremy, I would like to take this moment on behalf of all Canadians,
01:53for the character and the integrity with which you've represented our country.
02:00For showing, for showing the world who we are as Canadians,
02:05and for showing us what we can be.
02:10Because during his epic Artemis II mission around the moon,
02:18around the moon, Colonel Hansen saw our planet from more than 400,000 kilometers away.
02:27He traveled farther from Earth than anyone has ever done before.
02:37It's the equivalent of driving from St. John's to Victoria 50 times,
02:44the ultimate Canadian road trip.
02:47And you know, from such great heights, Colonel Hansen brought back home
02:52a perspective on the values that make us who we are,
02:56and the values that can propel us to achieve extraordinary things.
03:02Courage, connection, and conviction.
03:06He showed courage in the face of the possibility of never returning.
03:12Courage to take a calculated risk to achieve what had never been done before.
03:18He showed connection because that mission was only made possible
03:22by everyone working together within a family, within a team, within a community.
03:28He showed conviction about what we are capable of as a country.
03:36About the need to take risks in order to do big things.
03:42The courage, the connection, the conviction.
03:46They're what it takes to reach the dark side of the moon.
03:50And they're what it takes to make the greatest country in the world even better.
03:57And we can do it.
04:02Over this past year, Canadians have shown all three values.
04:07Courage is not the absence of fear.
04:13It's the ability to act despite the fear.
04:17It's the courage that animates our Canadian Armed Forces,
04:21to Halyfax and Trenton, by passing by Yellowknife and Nanus Bay.
04:28From the reassurance operation in Lithuania, to the court response in Norway.
04:36We stand behind our allies so that others can live free.
04:45Whether it be here or elsewhere in the world,
04:50when people see the fire on the pole fire,
04:55they feel hope they receive help.
05:09And my dear friends, it's the courage of our policemen and our policemen who protect us.
05:19Just this year, five agents have given their lives in the exercise of their work.
05:27Mohamed Lamine Ben Khedwan, Mark Pinizotto, Theroun Bali, Anis Fortin-Cousin, Brandon Malcolm.
05:46We will cry for their departure.
05:50We will give them homage.
05:53And we are solidaires of their families, of their friends and of their colleagues. Thank you.
06:07We see the courage, even now, of firefighters running towards raging wild fighters, as in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories.
06:16And we see the courage of Canadians, what you have shown in the face of a more dangerous and divided
06:25world.
06:27Never flinching.
06:29Always standing together, working together resolutely to build our future.
06:33Because in a crisis, fortune favors the bold.
06:39Now, if courage is how we must face the world, connection is how we accomplish what can seem impossible.
06:49Jeremy Hansen, he's coming, just not yet.
06:53Jeremy Hansen has observed that while individuals can feel powerless in the face of global challenges,
07:01humanity's true strength lies in our ability to collaborate.
07:05That's how the Artemis team accomplished what had never been done before.
07:10That's what a united Canada makes possible.
07:15We are a country of extraordinary diversity, with a multitude of origins, languages and ways to see the world.
07:25And the foundation of Canada is simple.
07:28The unity does not need uniformity.
07:34Our nation has been forged thanks to accommodations and not by assimilation,
07:42thanks to partnerships and not by domination.
07:47It's neither a myth nor a miracle, but a circuit of choice, imperfect, made generation after generation.
07:57And these big choices, more than ever in a world that often divides us.
08:05In a world where traditional alliances are fighting.
08:10Canada chooses to build new partnerships.
08:18We offer partnership in a divided world.
08:22Partnership in security.
08:24Partnership in trade.
08:27Partnership in culture.
08:30Canada is already the third largest exporter of music on the planet.
08:40And you can see from what we've already heard this morning, we're about to get bigger.
08:46And there's another reason we're about to get bigger.
08:48Because I'm pleased to announce that Canada will be joining the next Eurovision Song Competition.
08:58Yes!
09:00Finally!
09:01Enfin!
09:03We don't know what's coming!
09:06The most gloriously over-the-top celebration of music on earth.
09:10Dozens of countries, hundreds of millions of viewers, one unforgettable show.
09:14It's about to get even better, even wilder, because the world needs more Canada.
09:24And you will decide, you will decide, and it's going to be a tough choice, you will decide
09:29which Canadian artist first steps onto that Eurovision stage beneath our flag.
09:37And we've also decided to bring the world to Canada to celebrate the vitality, the richness and the resilience of
09:47the French language in this country and everywhere in the world.
09:52Yes!
09:54Yes!
09:55Yes!
09:55Canada will be the summit of the Frenchophonie in 2028, here, in the region of the National Capital
10:07.
10:09That the fête begins!
10:12And if the courage and the way we face the world, and if the connection is what allows us to
10:21reach a new summit, the conviction, the certainty that the best is always possible, and what makes us progress.
10:50Every generation of Canadians inherits something that was built by the generations before.
10:56A railway, a seaway, a charter of rights, a path towards reconciliation, a country that's more prosperous, more just, more
11:09inclusive than the one they inherited from their parents.
11:13None of us builds on empty ground.
11:16We build on those platforms raised by those who came before us.
11:20And our job, our duty even, is to raise it higher still, for those who come after.
11:25That's why.
11:28That's why.
11:29To build a country truly a country.
11:31Never consider their work as finalized, because a country is still in the future.
11:39It is always looking for better.
11:42It is the choice of that each generation is faced with, and it is the choice that is offered to
11:49us today.
11:51That's why I am so proud to see so many Canadians and Canadians choose to pursue the work of
12:02those and those who have preceded them, to act according to their convictions, and to
12:08batheur in Canada Falls. Building sustainably from the Iqaluit Nukit Soutits Hydro in Nunavut to the
12:20West Offshore Energy in Nova Scotia. Building in partnership with Indigenous peoples, such
12:28as the Nishka Nations, Cy Lissams LNG in BC, and the Darlington Nuclear in Ontario, which
12:35just two weeks ago saw the largest Indigenous investment in Canadian history.
12:46And building in solidarity, creating good, high-paying union jobs and 100,000 new apprenticeships
12:56in the skilled trades to fill them. We're building in a spirit of cooperative federalism to create
13:04one Canadian economy, to build Canada strong, from new homes, community infrastructure,
13:10nation-building, defence, transport and energy projects in every province, in every territory.
13:16And we're building Canadian, with Canadian workers, Canadian steel, Canadian know-how, Canadian values.
13:26And my friends, this work is born from the conviction that Canada is worth fighting for.
13:41That Canada belongs to all Canadians. That Canada's best days are yet to come.
13:52These convictions were forged across generations and they're being renewed by this generation.
13:58Courage, connections, conviction, Canada. Our Canada. Canada true, Canada strong, Canada free.
14:09Canada for all, Canada. Now. Now to what I'm really up here for.
14:23When I spoke to Colonel Hansen just after his recent road trip, he reminded me of something
14:30that his mission commander, Reid Wiseman, had said just before they set out. And the commander
14:35said that he hoped one day that their mission would be forgotten. Because that would mean
14:42that Artemis II was a success. Successful because others would have gone further. Because the torch
14:50would have been passed and carried forward. You know, it's the right perspective for how
14:55we build an even better country. Because the true measure of what we build is not whether we're
15:01remembered. It's whether those that follow can stand on a higher platform and reach higher
15:07than we ever could. That's what we're doing Canada.
15:14And right now, right now Canadians are aiming high. We're aiming for the moon as well as the
15:23world cup.
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