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From YouTube: JUNE 10 2021 Statements Roly Russell
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
2nd Session
42nd Parliament
A
Good
morning,
everyone
and
thank
you,
mr
speaker,
I
reflect
today
upon
how
we
recognize
value
and
how
it
informs
our
work.
Here.
I
had
the
honor
to
work
with
a
brilliant
philosopher
some
years
ago,
and
I
used
the
word
brilliant
intentionally,
given
that
I
believe
she
radiates
brightness
into
other
people's
lives.
We
had
the
opportunity
to
work
together
on
a
project
about
how
our
ecological
understanding
of
our
environment,
specifically
our
oceans,
has
the
potential
to
infirm
our
behavior
and
in
turn,
our
ethics.
A
One
of
the
key
tenets
of
this
philosophy
of
value
is
that
we
even
decide
how
to
attribute
value
in
very
different
ways,
let
alone
what
we
value.
We
can
value
outcomes,
which
is,
I
think,
obvious
to
most
of
us.
We
value
our
health
care
system's
ability
to
heal
and
make
people
well,
for
example,
but
we
also
value
process
in
healthcare.
We
probably
value
a
system
that
doesn't
present
procedural
obstacles
to
racialized
people
and
finally,
we
also
value
duty.
This
might
place
value
on
the
obligation
we
see
to
provide
universal,
publicly
funded
medical
care.
A
Recognizing
this
trio
of
duty
process
and
outcome
helps
shape
my
understanding
of
what
we're
doing
here.
I
think
much
of
our
role
in
this
house
as
politicians
is
to
take
the
wisdom
of
our
knowledge
keepers,
science,
elders
or
otherwise,
and
overlay
a
lens
of
social
value,
atop.
Those
truths
and
the
reason
that
I
use
my
time
today
to
speak
to
this
is
we
occasionally
lose
track.
I
think
of
how
malleable
and
diverse
not
just
our
values
themselves
are,
but
also
our
process
for
determining
value.
A
So
it's
important
make
is
important,
making
that
how
and
what
we
value
is
regularly
reviewed
as
the
foundation
of
our
policy.
I
use
management
of
our
forests
as
an
example.
We
have
always
valued
economic
returns
and
eventually
fiber
volume
became
a
proxy
for
dollars,
but
now
we're
recognizing
more
and
more
that
we
need
to
shift
back
to
managing
our
forests
for
more
comprehensive
value
and
that
value
will
be
diverse
and
it'll
change.
A
It'll
no
doubt
include
a
central
place
for
economic
returns,
but
it'll
also
include
fundamentally
community
autonomy,
recreation,
biodiversity
and
much
more
so
because
of
this,
I
look
forward
to
the
discussions
ahead
about
the
forestry
intentions
paper
released
last
week,
which
starts
to
sketch
out
a
road
map
putting
value
more
explicitly
back
into
the
equation.
Thank
you.