00:00From the right, back out of the room, as well as some of the snacks in the front of the room.
00:06So how do we move to the tables?
00:08So tonight, we're going to start from hearing a few different voices of people that are stepping up in their own communities
00:16to push back against the middle five to build something better.
00:21First, we're going to hear from our opening speaker, which I'll introduce in a moment.
00:25And one of our volunteers will share a bit about her own experience, what inspired her to step up and get involved.
00:33And then finally, we'll hear from MPP Mike Schreiner, who will speak with bigger picture and why this moment demands all co-ordinated action
00:41and how each of us can play a powerful role in killing the middle five.
00:46Then we'll bring them into tables for a little exercise.
00:49You can probably see some materials on the table.
00:52There's a facilitator at the table that will support this exercise.
00:55Can I just get all the facilitators to raise your hands?
00:58Please.
00:59Keep them raised.
01:01There you go.
01:02Okay, that's excellent.
01:03Thank you very much.
01:04Then we'll, you know, break through the tables and then we'll return to the discussion and talk about taking the action.
01:11We'll be facilitated by the action plan scene to discuss those concrete steps that I know you're all here to take.
01:20That's great.
01:21So, our next speaker, Michael Chena, is proud of the First Nation with Cree ancestry from James Bay.
01:31And he moved to Toronto in 1975.
01:34He's held several leading roles in the Native Community of Toronto that consisted of being vice president of the AKBC First Nation School of Toronto.
01:44President of the Toronto Council of Fire Native Cultural Center Boards and Directors.
01:49He's been a research consultant with NAM First Nations Band offices in South Ontario, joined by regional anti-racism community.
01:56He is the foreign president of the indigenous representative of the Aboriginal Criminal Rights of Ontario.
02:03As a survivor of two residential schools, he has traveled to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, taking gatherings and hearings to share his residential school experience with non-indigenous communities.
02:15Michael received the commemorative medal for the 125th anniversary of the Confederation of Canada in recognition of Voluntary Service in 2020.
02:25Michael has worked with NAM Maures, providing direct relief to personal skin crisis.
02:32He served as union steward and president of Local 3950 while employed at Temple Wire Products Limit.
02:39He's currently a leader advocacy worker for IRSS, a Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Center.
02:45Michael's studies at Humber College and George Brown College have assisted him on his journey of healing and through his many tasks.
02:52Please join me in formally following Michael Chiena.
02:55Michael Chiena.
03:01My name is Mr. Viva.
03:04Professor Touch of the Code System.
03:10I am proud of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for four years.
03:15I attended two residential schools, 1958 to 1968.
03:24I grew up in a free community on the 29 territory along the shores of H. Bay,
03:36Over the last few years.
03:37I was a former member of the University of Esteevus,
03:38and I'm here today to speak to you.
03:46I don't know...
03:53Some people can't hear me.
03:58Well, the first thing I want to do is talk about these two-row long walking.
04:08I want to take you for one minute.
04:12The principles of peace, friendship and respect, establishes a nation-nation relationship with the first nations in Canada.
04:37The indigenous people of Rhode Island used to work with the lands and resources.
04:46Well, the great lakes for generations, they have a 3D relationship and that 3D relationship has to be upheld.
04:59Respected and honored that we have the same indigenous and treaty rights of indigenous people who came on this land.
05:09There are also survivors of genocide, intergenerational trauma, and violent suffering of criminal racism.
05:21Anyone who proposes a bill of God is radical, is labeled as a radical, by the government of Ontario.
05:35The absence of indigenous consent is a lot of disengardment to the Section 35 rights holders of Treaty 9 until the union matters.
05:47The federal government is sidestepting its treaty obligations for the first nations of people.
05:57The purpose of Bill 5 is to plunder and prevent the homeland from the street, and emerging three communities towards the country today, and soon to come to access the ring of fire.
06:13What will you call the name of the help of the people that are these 35 networks, is much more divided than 15 viewers.
06:19The notion that there is zero, the foundation of the land-initiated public ministry, which therefore it is a long way to put up a begat.
06:25And you can call yourself, you know what the conduct of the land-initiated public ministry.
06:30What do you call this is the United States of the Arabian National Society of the Arabian National Society of the Arabian National Society of the Arabian National Society of the Arabian National Society?
06:38Formerly known as Rupert's Land, Treaty 9, Treaty number 9 occupies two-thirds of Ontario,
06:50spanning an area of 210,000 square miles and represents 51 First Nations communities,
06:59over 45,000 First Nations citizens on and off the reserve.
07:06In 2008, the K-I-6, the chief, gone worse, on council, on Big Trump Lake,
07:19also on the S-K-I, went to jail for two weeks for blocking landed projects on their ancestor homeland.
07:29Are you willing, are you willing to make that sacrifice?
07:36And the chief and the council were released because of the head march over,
07:43of the Knight of the Church of Canada.
07:47The Knight of the Church, the Knight of the Bishop, wrote a letter to the gallery.
07:51And the K-I-6 and the chief and the council were released.
08:01So, that's all the time I have. Thank you guys.
08:08I'm trying not to leave this stand very much.
08:11Alright, so next, we're announcing here from another voice, Stacey Foe, one of our dedicated volunteers here in Toronto.
08:22She'll share her personal journey, what motivated her to get involved.
08:27So, she's been very active on April 5, obviously.
08:30The impact has had on Jordan, why she believes local organizing, is key to make the real change.
08:36So, I'd like you to welcome to the stage, Stacey Foe.
08:42I've been in the West Wing Party since August, last year.
08:46Um, when the machine is shot not on my board, campaigning for, um, the municipal council received 415.
08:54I have no idea if it was right.
08:57I have no idea if it would lead me here to this orange sword.
09:01But I'd like to put mine against Bill 5, which passed the 3rd green onto the 4th of the base at the opposition.
09:08To me, Bill 5, and its federal federal government, Stacey Foe represents, without exaggeration, beginning with the idea of democracy.
09:18Despite the blendy, impassion, united filibuster and public outcry,
09:24Bill 5 now grants the government part of the fund to repeal the Intangents Cases Act
09:29and replace it with crack in mind, creating all the stones for development that are exempt from seeking environmental assessments.
09:37Uh, and most egregiously disarm the voices of indigenous peoples who have always run the forefront of the struggle to alter the earth
09:44and have already survived centuries of colonial violence to erase their materials.
09:48As well as the silence of their warnings about environmental degradation to the point of military.
09:54Climate change is no longer on the horizon.
09:58It is a very real, very tangible threat that can no longer be framed as a hobby of their hippies.
10:11Um, the passions and the passions of Bill 5 and C5 will allow the acceleration towards the green,
10:19will allow the acceleration towards the future to become on the challenge of the present.
10:25I believe we deserve better people.
10:28We deserve a government that listens, respects science, and values our communities.
10:34That's my energy, uh, to invite you to stand together, take out our government, and show that no government gets to strip away our rights without fighting.
10:44So-
10:46So, I'm just gonna ask you to answer your question.
10:49This is one of your people who has never been stopped fighting for our environment, and has in real democracy,
10:54so I'm next to speak.
10:56Mike Lear is the leader of the Green Party, Ontario, and the MP Kidman of Law.
11:01He's been a tireless athlete against Bill 5 and a voice of client action that matters most.
11:05Thank you everyone for being here today.
11:13Michael, thank you for your wise words and sharing the spirit that you're walking about.
11:27And I would say Doug Ford needs to take some lessons from you, my friend.
11:33You know, I look out in this crowd tonight and I'm thinking back to two years ago at this very moment when people thought there was no way they could stop Doug Ford from paving over the green belt.
11:53And people power, the kind of people power we see in the room tonight stopped Doug Ford and forced him to keep his promise not to destroy Ontario's green belt.
12:05And it's people power, the kind of people power in this room tonight that's going to force Doug Ford to kill Bill 5.
12:23Bill 5 is the most extraordinary and egregious and unprecedented power attack grab in Ontario's history.
12:43It is a direct attack on indigenous rights, environmental protections, labor laws, and just basic democratic oversight.
12:55Imagine, imagine a government that can literally give itself the power to save a company.
13:03Come to Ontario. Go in this little region in northern Ontario.
13:09We'll bypass our constitutional duty to consult with First Nations.
13:15We'll cut corners on health and safety laws.
13:19We'll let you ignore environmental protections.
13:22We've already repealed the Endangered Species Act.
13:25You don't even have to worry about that one.
13:28And we're going to allow you to set up shop in a lawless zone.
13:34And then we don't care what the legislature or the people of Ontario have to say
13:42because we've removed all democratic oversight from the province of Ontario.
13:48And that's exactly what special economic zones do.
13:51And it's exactly why it is so vital for us to organize tonight in moving forward to restore democracy in this province.
14:00Restore respect to First Nations in this province.
14:04Restore environmental protections.
14:07Restore labor laws that so many people have fought for.
14:11And that's exactly why we need to kill Bill 5.
14:15So what I find so inspiring is that when this bill was passed,
14:31First Nations were on the lawn of Cleans Park saying,
14:35we will not take our rights away.
14:38Matter of fact, there's a camp right now on the north side of Cleans Park
14:42that's indigenous land.
14:44The people in Dresden where the province is removing the environmental settlement for the Dresden dump
14:51have said, not in our backyard.
14:54As a matter of fact, they put so much pressure on their conservative MPP
14:58that he actually came out against the bill.
15:00Of course, it didn't show up for the last few weeks of Cleans Park or vote on the bill.
15:15But it shows you what people power can deliver.
15:18Already northern Ontario, First Nations are putting up blockades, temporary blockades on highways.
15:26People like Love and Kitchener, Georgetown, Toronto.
15:31I can't tell you how many rallies I've been invited to speak.
15:36Because people are outraged.
15:38And so the thing that we have to ask ourselves tonight, what are we going to do with that anger?
15:45What are we going to do with that outrage?
15:48What are we going to do to build the people power movement to kill Bill 5?
15:53Why?
15:54And that's the question we're answering tonight.
15:56And I can tell you what I'm going to do.
15:58I'm going to go to every rally, every backyard barbecue, every event in places like Caledon,
16:06every South Mascoka, in Dresden, in Hamilton, in Dwell, in Northern Ontario, in Ottawa.
16:14I don't care.
16:15I don't care.
16:16I'll go anywhere.
16:17The people want to come together and fight to kill Bill 5.
16:23If that's what I'm going to do with that, I'm going to do with that.
16:26So this morning I was at Cleansh Park launching our Kill Bill 5 tour,
16:43which really starts tonight.
16:45But what I said there, and I'll say it again tonight, is when we were debating Bill 5,
16:51I said that special economic zones are inspired by authoritarian dictatorships like China, Russia,
17:02and Saudi Arabia.
17:04And members of the Conservative Party during the debate in the House said I was being hyperbolic.
17:09Well, I don't know if anybody heard the Premier yesterday,
17:12but he actually is embracing his vision of Ontario to be that of Saudi Arabia.
17:19He literally said that at a news conference yesterday.
17:22And I'm sorry, that is not my vision for Ontario.
17:25My vision for Ontario is inclusive prosperity in partnership with First Nations, with a thriving democracy,
17:34with an economy that invests renewable energy and helps people save money while addressing the climate crisis.
17:41My vision for Ontario is we respect the rule of law and basic democratic processes and our constitutional duty to free and quorum prior consent.
17:53So what I want to ask each and every one of you tonight is to ask yourself,
18:00what are you going to do to stand up for Ontario?
18:03What are you going to do to stand up for your vision of the kind of province we want to live in?
18:10I think you're here because you don't believe in what Doug Ford is doing to this province.
18:17And that you're going to take the actions necessary to build the people power movement.
18:22We need to kill Bill 5.
18:24I want you to think about where you were in the fall of 2023.
18:29When the Premier finally announced you were going to backtrack on opening the Greenbelt for development.
18:36And so I wanted you to think about the fall of 2025.
18:40And think about what actions you're going to take this summer.
18:45What you're going to do to connect the people in your community and help us build a movement.
18:52Because I can guarantee you the movement to kill Bill 5 is going to have to be bigger than the movement to halt the Greenbelt.
18:59And so tonight I'm looking forward to being a part of a conversation about how we together are going to build this movement across the province.
19:09Who's going to step up and do what so we can protect the people and places we live in Ontario by killing Bill 5.
19:18So thank you all for being here.
19:20Thank you for being here and thank you for giving us a chance.
