Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces Oceans Protection Plan 2.0

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on Bowen Island Tuesday morning to make an announcement concerning the federal authorities’s Oceans Safety Plan.

Trudeau introduced the subsequent stage of the plan, calling it 2.0 with one other two billion {dollars} in funding allotted for the mission.

“We’ll take motion to fight rising threats to our marine security and ecosystems and we’ll strengthen partnerships with Indigenous peoples who should be our companions and in some ways, our leaders, as we transfer ahead on defending these extraordinary ecosystems,” Trudeau stated.

The plan additionally consists of the Salish Sea Technique, which Trudeau stated will proceed to guard and restore the ecosystem in a method that respects Indigenous and treaty rights and conventional information.

“It’ll deploy applied sciences that cut back the impression of underwater noise in order that marine mammals can safely talk with one another and safely navigate these waters,” Trudeau added.

Minister of Transport, Omar Alghabra, stated this growth means they’ll make marine delivery safer, defend marine species and ecosystems and “present higher alternatives for Indigenous Peoples to direct how their conventional coasts and waterways are protected.”

On Tuesday afternoon, Trudeau can be in North Vancouver the place he’ll go to a kids’s day camp.

Trudeau was within the Central Okanagan for a fast go to on Monday, making a number of stops alongside the tour. This was additionally the prime minister’s first time in Kelowna, B.C., since 2017.

Trudeau stored issues quiet main as much as his Okanagan tour and didn’t make himself accessible to talk with native media.

The primary cease on his agenda was a go to to a kids’s day camp in Lake Nation, the place he spent a while interacting with the children, making crafts with them and taking part in outdoors.

The second cease of the day for Canada’s chief was in Kelowna on the BC Tree Fruits packing home, the place he was given a tour of the packing and storage facility to see the ins and outs of the operation.

Trudeau additionally took time to pose for a number of selfies with the workers on the packing home, and earlier than he left, he made positive to cease contained in the BC Tree Fruits retailer to buy some ripe B.C. cherries.

— with recordsdata from Jayden Wasney and Jasmine King

Extra to come back.