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From YouTube: OCT 27 2022 Statements Sonia Furstenau
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
A
I
am
a
quota
holding
Farmer
on
Vancouver
Island
I
am
blessed
to
have
a
husband,
three
children,
a
dog,
ten
puppies,
15
cats,
nine
pigs,
400
broilers,
6,
000
egg,
laying
hens
and
tens
of
thousands
of
food
producing
plants.
I
carry
the
weight
of
my
responsibilities,
each
impacts,
the
others.
The
health
of
my
farm
is
directly
linked
to
the
health
of
my
family
when
I,
listen
to
the
weather
report,
words
like
unprecedented
and
record-breaking
are
words
that
I
hear
weekly
and
they
have
real
life
consequences.
A
For
me
this
time
last
year
the
atmospheric
River
managed
to
completely
sever
the
Lower
Mainland.
The
area
hit
hardest
by
the
floods
produces
50
percent
obese's
food
supply.
Do
you
remember
the
empty
grocery
store
shelves?
I.
Remember
the
conversations
with
my
farming
friends,
the
ones
who
lost
their
flocks,
their
barns,
their
herds,
the
ones
who
had
to
euthanize
their
livestock.
Those
conversations
haunt
me
as
I
reflect
on
this
year.
A
I
ask
myself
what
is
my
provincial
government
done
about
climate
disasters
and,
from
my
perspective,
nothing
I'm
sure
your
answer
will
touch
on
funding
packages
grants
to
Lo
to
apply
for
tax
credits
for
electric
car
purchases.
The
truth
is
I,
don't
care
because
none
of
those
things
addresses
the
problems.
I
want
a
future
for
my
children,
I
ask
you
again
to
have
the
courage
to
be
the
leaders
in
climate
policy
to
stop
giving
my
tax
money
to
oil
and
gas
companies
and
invest
in
people
in
Innovation
and
alternative
energies.