 Thank you for being here today everyone. It is a great pleasure for me to present a Council of Ministers that looks a lot like Canada. It's an incredible pleasure for me to be here today before you to present to Canada a Cabinet that looks like Canada. We have an awful lot of work to do in the coming weeks, months and years. But I know the Canadians expected us to come together and put forward a team that is going to be able to deliver on the change, on the ambitious plan for this country that the Liberal Party ran on and that's exactly what we are going to deliver. The Canadians have had great expectations for us and I am very happy to show that we have the extraordinary team to deliver on the values and the plan that Canadians expect from this Government. Hi, Julie Van Dusen, CBC. We've seen congratulations first of all and we've seen some visible changes in your approach but could you just explain to us, if you had a message to Canadians, what kind of government are you hoping to offer them? How will it be different? I think one of the first things is that we're a government that wants to earn Canadians trust by demonstrating that we trust Canadians. Openness and transparency isn't just about trust though, it's also very much about better policy making, better decisions when media can do their jobs of holding us to account and asking tough questions. When disclosure and access to information is just the way Parliament behaves, when open data and evidence-based policy is at the heart of policy making and governance decisions, you get the kind of government that Canadians expect and deserve and that's what we're going to be working very, very hard to deliver. Annette, a second quick question. You're making history today in the sense that you're the first Canadian Prime Minister whose father was a Prime Minister and many people in the crowd mentioned your father and I'm just wondering do you have any thoughts today to share with us? Obviously I think of my father and how pleased he must be that Canada so firmly came together around an ambitious vision for the country that we presented but my thoughts today, sorry dad, aren't mostly on him. They're very much on my own kids and on the kids across this country that we are going to work very, very hard to ensure they have a better future. I am forward looking and that's what we're going to do. First of all, your cabinet you said looks a lot like Canada and I understand one of the priorities for you was to have a cabinet that was gender balanced. Why was that so important to you? Because it's 2015. Canadians elected extraordinary members of parliament from across the country and I am glad to have been able to highlight a few of them in this cabinet here with me today. However there are an awful lot of extraordinary Canadians who are not in this cabinet behind me who are also going to be strong voices for their community and their country because one of the things that I am committed to is ensuring that all parliamentarians, all 307 of them who aren't here with us today are able to be strong voices for their communities to push their issues and to make sure that the diversity that makes this country so strong is the diversity of views that carry us forward. Last week you were asked for an update on resettling the 25,000 Syrian refugees that you promised. You said last week that you would have more to say after you were sworn in. Well you've been sworn in. Can you give us an update on what you're doing to get 25,000 refugees here to Canada? Well I just took a big step towards it by appointing the kind of cabinet that's going to get things done. This is going to be a period of slight adjustment for a number of people in the political world in Canada because government by cabinet is back. We are going to sit down around the cabinet table and talk about the solutions that need to put forward what is in the best interests of Canadians and how we're going to deliver on the promises that Canadians quite rightly expect us to keep. We are going to do it responsibly and properly but we are going to keep the promises we made to Canadians to offer them the kind of country that we know we deserve. NPDTV, Mr Trudeau, you're heading to APAC meeting and we'll meet with Asian leaders including Chinese leaders. As Canada does trade with China we also know there's a great human rights concerns in that country. For example the recent arrest of the human rights lawyers, the torture and killing of Falun Gong practitioners and the list goes on. I want to ask you are you going to stand up for Canadian values in raising the human rights issue with the Chinese counterpart and show Canadians that in doing trade we're not going to sacrifice. Canadians expect of their government to engage in protecting Canada's national interests in a positive and constructive way on the world stage and yes that means promoting our values and standing up for human rights and that also means ensuring that we can be a productive voice on the world stage to improve relations, to improve economic growth and opportunity for all but also to have frank and open conversations with our friends and trading partners and Canada will continue always to be a strong and positive voice on the world stage building the kind of future not just for Canadians but for everyone on this planet that we know people expect. Do you think in Canada's foreign policy with China Canada can advance a human rights agenda to help that country? Absolutely, I think Canada has an awful lot to offer to many countries around the world whether it's better governance, whether it's the idea that diversity is a source of strength not a source of weakness. There is a positive engagement firmly based on our values that we know are not just Canadian values but in most cases are universally shared values across the world that we have work to do and we will do that work. First of all, we form a government that puts confidence in the centre of these actions we want to merit the confidence of Canadians and for that we will demonstrate that we have confidence in Canadians to be open and transparent in our actions, to make policies based on data, on facts to understand that we must be reliable in front of the media, in front of the Canadians at the very end of the field. It's a priority for me and I think it's the change that Canadians have asked in these elections. Now you will have your first meeting of the Council of Ministers this afternoon you will assume a series of priorities, what do you want, what are your priorities what do you want to accomplish until December 31, 2000? Well, one of the first discussions we will have, it will be on the return of the Parliament I would like to bring back Parliament in the first days of December but it will be a discussion that we will have in the cabinet to confirm the date but as I said throughout the campaign, one of our first priorities our first priority will be to lower taxes for the middle class by asking for 1% of the richest to do a little more and that's what we will present as first law projects. Mr. Trudeau, Brian Fraser on behalf of CKTJ1079 and it's no secret that a lot of students around the country go into tremendous amounts of debt coming out of their post-secondary education I was wondering now that you've been sworn in if you have any plans to maybe reduce the load that those students have to bear? We know that the future of our country is deeply wrapped up in a positive future for our young people. Access to post-secondary education is going to be essential for economic growth in this country and that's why we put forward a strong plan to increase the Canada student grants and loan system to make sure that young people have better access to post-secondary education including for Indigenous Canadians who see tremendous barriers but also we have made a commitment that loans don't need to be paid back by students until such a time as they are making $25,000 a year in salary and revenue that's the kind of thing that pushes off the kinds of debts that are crippling our young people. Thank you and congratulations. Hello, Mr Trudeau, Milani Marquis from the Canadian press. Are you surprised to hear from people who have come to the Cabinet in some way to get men to reach parity in the Cabinet? You know, we are in 2015 today and I think that having a Cabinet that reflects Canada in all its magnificent diversity has been a priority for me, but as you also know Canadians have been sent to the Cabinet, extraordinary people for the Liberal Party and we recognize that all parliamentarians will have an important role to play to ensure that the views, the concerns, the priorities of Canadians are well understood in this Parliament, are well heard by this Government and that we deliver the kind of Government that Canadians are waiting for. Go ahead, Justin. Thanks. Mr Trudeau, in a couple weeks you'll be heading to Paris where you're going to be asked to commit to serious goals and reducing carbon emissions here in Canada but you've not committed to any sort of plan on the federal level to do so. You said you're going to get the provinces on board. Optimistically, do you think that's even possible to actually get the provinces to adapt a plan that's going to be enough to meet the pretty serious targets that you're going to be asked to commit to? Canadians expect their Government to be responsible around climate change and addressing the impacts of the environment that we are facing around the world right now. Canada is going to be a strong and positive actor on the world stage including in Paris at COP21. That's why we have a very strong Minister not just of the environment, the Minister of the Environment but of climate change who will be at the heart of this discussion and she's of course an Ottawa girl. We can see the support for her here. But the fact is that we have an amazing team of strong Cabinet members who will lean in with the kind of engagement both with the provinces and municipalities and countries around the world to demonstrate that Canada is doing its part to address climate change impacts. Thank you very much.