 Hey, everyone! Is it on or is it just me now? Yep, you're on. I'm on. All right. Hey, everyone. It's the Prime Minister. It's great to be here. I'm really glad that one of my very first actions as Prime Minister is to reach out to great schools right across the country. It's a great pleasure for me to start my responsibilities as Prime Minister, in speaking and listening to the young people's questions. I'm really happy to hear what you had as a question for me, because you know that during this campaign, I started listening and engaging citizens. This campaign, and hopefully this government, will be all about how we draw people into politics, how we make sure that they actually start engaging in positive and constructive ways with politics. Politics is never supposed to be just about a speech politicians give that everyone else listens to, very much about a dialogue, a conversation, and that's why I'm looking forward to hearing your questions today, and I look forward to getting around to it. So I think we're going to start with Sarvik School in Nunavut. It's really great to hear you guys and see you guys. And let's... Hey, hey! I can't yet hear them. You guys need to unmute, I think. There you are. Welcome to the Sarvik School. My name is Heather. What do you know about us in our culture? I have been very lucky in my life to have been many times up to the beautiful north in Canada, and I first started going as a kid with my father, who used to bring me up, so I could understand how extraordinary the land and the people who live up there are, and actually over the past little while, I was able to come up north to meet with people and community leaders and to share community feasts and bring my family as well, because it's really important to be able to share my love for the north with all of you and with my family. The fact is, Canada is a country that needs to do a better job of giving opportunities and support to the people who live in the north, who've lived in the north for so long, and that means making sure that we're working with you and all communities across the north to ensure a better future and more opportunities. I'm always happy to get up there and happy to start. My term is as Prime Minister with the first question from you. Thank you. You're very welcome. All right, and now we're going to L'École Romeo d'Alère. I'm very happy to see you here at Winnipeg. Hello everyone. Prime Minister, I have to warn you that you don't see your screen in black. I don't know if that's an expression. Anyway, I'm going to present... Excuse me? No, you're supposed to see me, but we're going to try to see what we can do. All right, I'm going to present you a message with the question. Hello Prime Minister. I'm going to call my brother-in-law and see if the question of L'École Romeo d'Alère. Is Canada going to be strong? Hello. Hello. Is Canada going to be strong so that immigrants can easily come to Canada without doing dangerous things? And are you going to reduce the cost to become a citizen? Canada is a country that is always strong, not because of our differences, but because of our differences. One of the great strengths of this country is that there are people who come from all over the world to build a life, a future here, and not only contribute to the future of their children, but also to the future of our communities, of our country. So for me, to make sure that we have a good immigration system that allows people to come here to contribute, to build this country, to share their experiences and their hopes for the future is essential. We also see that there are barriers that exist to become citizens and even financial barriers. So we are looking to keep the best ways to ensure that people who want to become Canadian, who want to contribute to the improvement of this country will continue to be able to do it. So I have today named a very good Minister of Immigration La citoyenneté des réfugiés qui va se pencher sur ces projets-là et de s'assurer que le Canada continue d'être le pays ouvert et qui souhaite la bienvenue à des gens de partout dans le monde. Merci. Merci pour ta question. So now we're going over to Lawrence Heights Middle School in Toronto. Great to see you guys, Lawrence Heights. Good afternoon, Mr Prime Minister. I'm Royal from Lawrence Heights Middle School and I'm graduating soon. So my question was that in your election speeches you said that you will lower taxes for the middle classes and increase taxes for the richer and the higher class, but will this help in ending poverty for the lower classes and people in the streets? That's a really good question. Thank you for being concerned about Canadians who need a little extra help and opportunities. One of the things at the heart of our platform is a more generous Canada child benefit that we're going to start sending to families that will actually lift 315,000 kids out of poverty. We've committed to giving more money to the families who need it with the cost of raising their kids by not sending that money to the wealthiest families who quite frankly don't need the extra help. We've also committed to investing in social housing and in shelters to help people with a housing first strategy to combat homelessness. We know that in Canada our country only succeeds when everyone has an opportunity to succeed and that means making sure that as a country we're giving help and support to the most vulnerable. That's one of the things that I am absolutely committed to doing. That's what we're going to be working on in the coming years. Thank you very much for your question. And now I'm happy to flip to L'École du Dome here in the region of Ottawa in Gatineau. Pleasure to see you, friends. Thank you very much for your questions. Your presentation. Hello, Mr. Prime Minister. My name is Ludovic Michaud and this is my question. You promised that in 2017 the access to national parks would be free. Knowing that money is necessary to protect them, how would it be possible to make this promise? It's a very, very good question, Ludovic. And I can assure you that the money that it will cost to give free access to our 150th anniversary in 30 countries won't be money that we take away from Canada. I think it's a gift that Canada in Antilles will give to its citizens. But we don't just need to take away from money from Canada, but we need to invest in our parks to ensure that we have all the capacity to bring people from all over the country to discover this magnificent country and to support this learning to be better citizens that lean on the environment and the world that we want to have by having the capacity to visit our parks in 2017. But we will also give more money to Canada to ensure that they can do what they have to do and also to give Canada opportunities. Thank you for your question, Ludovic. You're welcome. And we'll now move on to Jim, a member to elementary. Hi, I'm In-Gue. I'm Alexis Christmas from a member to elementary school. And I want to congratulate you on your win. Thank you very much, Alexis. I appreciate that. And my question is, what did you enjoy most about teaching and how can you use these skills as Prime Minister? That's a great question. What I enjoyed most about teaching was spending every day with a broad range of great kids who always had tough questions for me and who challenged me. And a good teacher is not someone who stands up in the front of the class and gives out all the answers. A good teacher is someone who knows the challenges that their students are facing and helps them solve those challenges and get the answers. That's what a good teacher does. And I think that's what a good politician does as well. It's not just about having answers. It's about making sure that we're giving the tools to citizens to be able to create answers and to succeed. Another thing a teacher does well is understand complex issues and break them down in a way that individuals can actually understand and be empowered by. A good teacher is someone with as many questions as they have answers and is someone who listens as much as they speak. And that for me is what I'm going to try and do and focus on doing as a Prime Minister. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And let me just tell everyone how incredibly happy I am to be able to be with you here today. It makes me so happy to be able to share with you, to be able to underline how important it is for a Prime Minister to be accessible, connected, to listen to people. And I'll have the opportunity to have conversations with you and with Canadians across the country. For me, the biggest challenge I'm going to be facing in this job is not get wrapped up in this job and remain connected with the Canadians who elected me to serve them right across the country. And that's exactly what I'm going to work on doing, making sure that I keep listening, hearing your questions, trying to answer them and making sure that we're working together to build a better future for this extraordinary country and all the next generations. So I thank you very much for being so patient. I know it took longer to get this started but I had a lot of people to say hi to over at Rideau Hall, and you might have seen some of that on TV. But it was a real pleasure to be able to kick off my day and my first meeting in my office with great conversations with Sarevic, with Roméo Dallard, with Lawrence Heights Middle School, with École du Dome, and with Member 2 Elementary. Thank you so much all of you for being part of this today. I look forward to the next time that we get to talk about anywhere across the country. Merci beaucoup tout le monde. Thank you very much.