But we will not be intimidated and we will continue to do everything necessary to keep our Canadians keep Canadians protected from foreign interference. Do
you fear that there could be further retaliation from China such as economic retaliation, like when they find safety concerns with our import,
these are things that we considered but we decided that we needed to move forward in a responsible way to send a very clear message that we will not accept foreign interference and regardless of whatever next choices they make, we will not be intimidated and more, we will ensure that China continues to see along with other countries that are engaging in foreign interference, that we take this extraordinarily seriously.
I'll say something about the Travel Advisor if you haven't updated it, so it's the rest of Canadians unchanged.
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going on over the past few years. This is just renderings like you're saying you're taking this very seriously. But then it gets a week until the inevitable conclusion of expulsion actually happened.
Expelling a diplomat declaring a foreign diplomat persona non grata is a significant and serious step. And we took a little less than a week to reflect on it to look at the possible implications to make sure that what we were doing both demonstrates Canada's firmness, which it does, but also keeps Canadians and our interests protected
on the Alberta wildfire, so what's the next step for the federal government here and you've been in contact, we got more details about federal supports, and what are the next
we received the official request for assistance from from the premier Smith and the Alberta government. We're looking at it right now that now is a moment of both responding and discussing exactly how we can best respond. But also mobilizing resources as immediately as possible. I can tell you that over the past number of days, federal resources have been stood up and made ready for what we expected to be a request for assistance. And we're going to be able to be there for the people of Alberta on the Chief Justice did.
What's your reaction to the story about the judicial vacancies, putting criminal trials at risk,
we continue to run an open merit based process to appoint quality folks to the judiciary, we've actually over seven and a half years appointed over 600 new members of the judiciary more than any other government in history, including the previous government that was in power for almost 10 years, we take very, very seriously the responsibility of making sure great Canadians are on the judiciary and we continue to accelerate those processes and
policies adopted. Ways to potentially outline using unverified sources and reporting especially online. Essentially, the use of anonymous sources.
First of all, liberals, like all Canadians are right to be worried about misinformation and disinformation and wanting to make sure that Canadians are protected from it. However, that policy is not a policy we would ever implement, we will never make it we will never harm journalists capacity to do the professional, independent work that they do. And on that Facebook yesterday committee said that news had a social value, but not really an economic value. That argument that the Internet giants are putting forward is not just flawed. It's dangerous to our democracy to our economy. Putting aside the jobs and communities that are supported by local journalism, by professional journalists, understanding what's going on in the world around us, is an essential service being able to challenge authorities and powers in democracies and non democracies is a fundamental part of what we're doing and what how we create a better and fairer society forever. Woodward and Bernstein were an influencers else Someone reporting on the horrors in Bucha is not trying to get likes on their Facebook page. Journalism is essential, rigorous, challenging, independent journalism is essential. And the fact that Facebook is still saying that it doesn't want to pay journalists for the work they do. Shows how deeply irresponsible and out of touch they are with how we need to ensure all of us we're protecting our democracies.
