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Our next topic

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is what people these days call

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housing affordability, and the pressure
of the cost of living.

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Do you have any good ideas
for solving the current problems?

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Look past the surface to the root —
the main thing is really the economy.

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Once the economy is doing well,
all the problems —

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well, not all problems,
but most problems can be solved.

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So, can you tell us

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about your platform? Because we'd

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also like to hear what an outstanding
young scientist

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is thinking —

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and especially, what kind of
new platform she's putting forward.

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My platform —

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is actually pretty grassroots.
Most of it comes from

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my friends, residents in the community —

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things I gathered while visiting them,
areas people generally want

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us to support.

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And I also have my own work experience

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and education, plus my own strengths,

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so I'd lean more toward

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carrying out certain policies
once I'm able to take office.

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To give you an example, take

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an issue most residents care about:

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the drug problem. For me and

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our party, it's definitely zero tolerance.

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Whether it's drug houses
or drug injection sites,

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we're definitely zero tolerance —

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that's our platform. But zero tolerance

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doesn't mean it can't be touched at all.

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What we really advocate
is education about drugs.

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We can educate high school students early,

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or people with addiction, or even

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people curious about drugs, or even

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those with pain or illness who need

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these drugs. We want to give them

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education ahead of time, and tell them

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about the types of drugs,
precautions for using them,

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what to do if they become addicted,

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and if you actively want to

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quit, what resources to turn to.

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So, in the CanWest

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Party's platform, which policy

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do you think makes you feel the proudest

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and happiest — your real highlight?

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That's in line with our slogan,

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which is "When the people call,
we answer."

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"When the people call, we answer."

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That's a really powerful line. Yes.

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We spent a long time thinking

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about how to phrase this line,

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because it had to be powerful
in both Chinese and English.

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What is it in English?

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In English, it's "Your voice, my action."

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"You speak up, we act."

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in Chinese, put more classically,
it's "When the people call,

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we answer." So all of our

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platform and policies
come from the people.

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What we really want to say is,

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if we're elected, then in the future,

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when issues come up for debate,

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we'll first run a poll in our riding —

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polling on what people are calling for
most, and why,

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what the pros and cons of doing it are,

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and only then will we go and cast

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that all-important vote.

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Our next topic

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is what people these days call

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housing affordability, and the pressure
of the cost of living.

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Actually, right now across Canada,

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probably 70 or 80 percent —

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most people are probably struggling.

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In this situation, do you have any good

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ideas for solving the current problems?

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Look past the surface to the root —
the main thing is really the economy.

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Once the economy is doing well,
all the problems —

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well, not all problems,

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but most problems can be solved.

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So take housing,

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the affordability problem —
whether it's

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interest rates being too high, or

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mortgages being too high,
or home prices being too high,

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or even property taxes being too high —
all these problems,

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if our economy picks up,

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and everyone's income, their
after-tax income, reaches

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a certain level, or their own

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business is doing well, and they have

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some extra income of their own,

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then it's really not a problem anymore.

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Because if you look at historical data,

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prices and the cost of living
always go up,

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and home prices always go up, too.

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So we can't stop the historical trend,

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which is inflation, right?

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Every year,

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inflation is around 4% or more, so

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even if you do nothing at all,
things will still go up.

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You can't have only prices going up

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while your wages and income don't.

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So in other words,

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if economic growth comes first,

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and your income always rises faster than

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inflation or the rising cost of living,

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then people really wouldn't worry.

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Right. The main issue now is wages
aren't rising; some are even out of work.

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Yes.

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For instance, I have a lot of friends

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who wanted to invest here from overseas

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or build factories, but once tariffs

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came up, they all backed off.

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Because going from overseas into Canada

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or into the US, the tariffs

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were already there to begin with.

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If tariffs between us and the US

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go up too, then where they build

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the factory doesn't matter anymore.
And actually,

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there used to be a lot of

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people keen to invest who wanted
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BC, Vancouver, even

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places like Richmond. A lot of things

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had already reached the planning stage.

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Some had even come to look at
factory buildings and land.

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But the tariff issue really made them

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back off. And honestly, Canada has
vast land and a sparse population.

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A lot of the land is really ideal
for building factories.

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If you take office,

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on the issue of employment,

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what's your stance? Say AI comes along —

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do we still need to protect

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the number or share of jobs
our people have,

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or what? Is the employment rate

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also something you're working toward?

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The employment rate actually reflects

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how stable a society is.

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When unemployment is too high
and employment too low,

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lots of social stability problems

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start to show up. Why do we have

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problems like shoplifting?

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It really comes down to jobs.

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But when high tech like AI comes along,

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you can't just reject it and not use it.

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All you can do is manage
the speed and direction of its use.

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You can control the direction

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it's used in, and the people using it.

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My main idea is basically this:

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we can apply AI, and then have people

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do work above what AI does.

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In effect, you hand the basic

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work over to basic systems.

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Some people don't know how,

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so we need more training programs.

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And actually, the Canadian government

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has a lot of free ones like this.

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So really, we need to make these

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more accessible to everyone.
That way, when AI comes in,

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you become someone who masters AI. Right.

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This time, you're running
around No. 3 Road,

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right? And south of Blundell.

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In the southwest corner of Richmond.

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Southwest corner. No. 3 Road, Blundell,

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and the area going south from there

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is the best, I think —
the culture, the scenery.

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Do you think you have a strong chance
of winning this time?

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I wouldn't say I have a strong chance,

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but the Richmond-Steveston riding

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is the riding whose result is
most likely to surprise you.

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Because the MLA from last term isn't

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running this year, so effectively

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there's no incumbent seeking re-election.
So everyone's

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platforms and policies,
how much door-knocking they do,

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how voters lean —
it's really hard to predict.

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What are some ways you're hoping

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to get yourself out there?

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Right now, in Steveston, Richmond,

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at a local coffee shop,

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I've been holding community talks there.

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I get people in this community,

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through my friends, to bring along

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their neighbours. We have these

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roundtable-style sessions,
where everyone talks openly.

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We've already held

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two of them, and both went pretty well.

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Of course, every kind of person and view,

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we respect them all. But we really

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do need to hear what people think.

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I can't hide away in an ivory tower
and just develop on my own.

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So I listen to the views in support
and the views against.

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Last Friday, about 12 people came.

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Thank you.

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We had a pretty happy chat, the two of us.

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Yes, yes, yes.