安省魁省携手共抗美国保护主义!致力保证加美边境安全!

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今日,安省省长福特和魁省省长勒高(Francois Legault)宣告两省峰会圆满落幕。双方一致同意,应携手创造工作岗位,促进经济复苏,并致力改善医疗拨款,从而确保资金充足,稳定不断。此外,双方还同意一致促进两省人民的其他共同利益。

虽因疫情缘故,安魁两省过于数月内困难重重,但所幸皆已克服。于此期间,两省不仅极大提升了病毒检测能力,还鼓励数以千计企业调整生产模式,来生产个人防护装备和重要医疗物资。峰会期间,双方一致同意继续合作,分享抗疫经验,备战第二波疫情。

疫情期间,各省医疗系统现行压力大幅增加。鉴于联邦政府长期对省级医疗投资不足,双方一致呼吁联邦政府大幅增加“加拿大医疗拨款”(Canada Health Transfer),从而与各省区构建长期供资伙伴关系,借此亡羊补牢。

 

省长福特的话
安魁两省峰会落幕!携手共抗美国保护主义!致力保证加美边境安全!

这次峰会机遇难求,我们借此强化了和魁省的关系,还确保了我们两省人民和企业都能强力复苏。我很期待和魁省省长勒高合作,并同其他省府团结一致,为全国人民争取利益,而且争得都是最要紧的议题。比如说,在这个艰苦时期,我们要确保联邦政府是个全面伙伴,来给各省医疗系统提供充足拨款,并且资金不会中断。

安魁两省峰会落幕!携手共抗美国保护主义!致力保证加美边境安全!

 

魁省省长勒高表示:“在过去几个月中,魁安两省不屈不挠,起到了模范带头作用。我们致力实现经济大复苏,也因此我们要团结起来,协助经济发展,帮助企业,支持就业。我们将发出更强声音,确保联邦政府能知道我们有哪些一致的要紧问题。比如说,我们想让联邦政府用加拿大医疗拨款(CHT),解决医疗资金分配不均的潜在问题。”

 

安魁两省峰会落幕!携手共抗美国保护主义!致力保证加美边境安全!

 

双方一致同意,随着两省经济逐渐安全重启,安魁两省应一道推动经济增长。此外,双方亦同意向联邦政府施压,要求对方提供拨款,支援其他重点事项,以促进经济复苏。双方要求联邦拨款必须公平,有弹性,并可持续。具体重点事项如基础设施,公共交通,宽带网络和其他行业问题。若解决宽带问题,安魁两省偏远郊县和北部地区民众可以更快连接网络。

 

同时,双方一致同意,应合力共抗美国保护主义,消除省际贸易壁垒,推广安省制造和魁省制造,从而为两省保护和创造工作岗位。

 

双方将就加美边境重开一事继续合作,制定共同原则,从而安全和负责任的重新开放。并且,双方将确保联邦政府在放松边境管控之前,必须有明确规划

 

此外过去两日进展非凡。因此,为继续合作,省长福特和魁省省长勒高一致赞成峰会以后每年举行。如此,安魁两省可就双方共享优先事项和一致同意的领域戮力合作。

安魁两省人口超过2300万,是本国最大的经济区域。该两省总共国民生产总值为1.3万亿元,占全国的一半以上(58.3%),占省际出口的53.8%。

如果两省是一个贸易圈,它将成为美国的第三大贸易伙伴。

英语原文

Today, Premier Doug Ford and Québec Premier François Legault concluded a successful Ontario-Québec Summit, where their governments agreed to collaborate on accelerating economic recovery and job creation, working towards increasing health care funding sustainability and preparedness, and advancing other areas of mutual benefit for the people of Ontario and Québec.

Over the past few months, both provinces have surmounted extraordinary challenges due to COVID-19, from building unprecedented testing capacity to encouraging thousands of Ontario and Québec businesses to retool to make personal protective equipment and critical medical supplies. At the summit, Ontario and Québec agreed to continue their collaboration to share lessons learned from the pandemic and prepare their health care systems for a potential second wave of COVID-19.

With the COVID-19 crisis amplifying existing pressures on the provinces’ respective health care systems, Ontario and Québec now call on the federal government to remedy longstanding underinvestment in provincial health care by committing to a long-term funding partnership with the provinces and territories for health care through a significant increase of the Canada Health Transfer (CHT).

“This summit offered a historic opportunity to strengthen our regional partnership with Québec and ensure we can deliver a strong and resilient recovery for the people and businesses of our two provinces,” said Premier Ford. “I’m looking forward to working with Premier Legault to bring all of our provincial partners together to fight for the priorities that matter most to all Canadians, including ensuring the federal government is a full partner when it comes to adequate and sustainable funding for health care particularly during these extraordinary times.”

“Québec and Ontario have shown resilience and leadership over the past months. As we aim for an ambitious recovery, we must join our efforts to support economic development, our businesses and job creation,” said Premier Legault. “Together, we have a stronger voice and will work to ensure our shared priorities are heard by the federal government, including addressing the underlying imbalance in our healthcare funding arrangement through the CHT.”

 

The Premiers and Ministers of the two governments agreed to work together to grow and strengthen the economy as it gradually and safely reopens. The provinces also agreed to press the federal government for fair, flexible, sustainable funding for other key priorities that support economic recovery and resilience, including infrastructure, transit, other sector-specific supports and broadband in order to accelerate access to high-speed Internet access for rural, remote, and Northern communities.

The two parties also agreed to collaborate on combatting U.S. protectionism, removing trade barriers, and promoting Ontario-made and Québec-made products to help protect and create more jobs for Ontarians and Quebeckers.

The governments will further work together to develop shared principles on the safe and responsible reopening of the Canada-U.S. border and ensure Ottawa has a clear plan before any restrictions are relaxed.

To continue the extraordinary progress made over the past two days, Premiers Ford and Legault have agreed to convene annual meetings to jointly work on shared priorities and areas of mutual agreement.

The Premiers look forward to discussing these important priorities for the people of the two provinces and for all Canadians.

With a population of over 23 million, Ontario and Québec form the largest economic region of Canada. Together, the two provinces are responsible for $1.3 trillion, or more than half (58.3 per cent), of Canada’s total gross domestic product and 53.8 per cent of interprovincial exports.

If Ontario and Québec were a trading bloc, they would be the U.S.’ third largest trading partner.

(来源:安省官方)

 

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