Vancouver festival tragedy: 11 dead, dozens more hurt after driver rams Lapu Lapu Day crowd

In closing, Eby said gatherings volition proceed successful Vancouver

“In this moment, today, it’s hard to ideate different celebration. We’re grieving, radical are successful shock, radical are successful hospital, families are inactive being notified, radical are trying to scope loved ones they haven’t been successful interaction with.

“But I cognize that this onslaught volition not halt america from gathering and celebrating the culture, celebrating the radical of Vancouver and British Columbia,” helium said, lasting adjacent to Elmore with a Canada-Phillippines emblem pin connected his lapel.

“We’ll enactment with the city, we’ll enactment with constabulary to marque definite events person the systems successful spot to support radical harmless portion they’re celebrating. And we will, arsenic a community, travel retired of this stronger.”

Consul wide moving to find retired who mightiness person been affected

The consul wide is presently focused connected 2 important tasks: 1 is supporting B.C.’s Filipino expat assemblage and identifying Filipino nationals who mightiness person been affected.

Eby said a squad is moving with the consul wide to get much accusation from hospitals, though helium said those hospitals are focused archetypal connected attending to radical who are hurt.

Eby said helium has nary much accusation astir victims to share.

On however this mightiness impact policy

Eby is asked however this mightiness impact B.C.’s involuntary attraction policy, fixed what the constabulary said astir the fishy having been known to constabulary and intelligence wellness professionals.

The premier said the provincial authorities volition “take the actions that are necessary” connected policy, depending connected the constabulary investigation’ findings and however a imaginable transgression prosecution goes.

B.C. announced a caller 10-bed corrections portion 2 days ago, with involuntary attraction for radical who are successful a mental-health situation with overlapping encephalon injuries and addiction concerns.

'It's their crook to get attraction from us'

Eby noted galore radical successful the B.C. Filipino assemblage enactment successful attraction services, including successful wellness attraction and kid care.

"This is simply a assemblage that is suffering close now. We're going to enactment our arms astir them arsenic British Columbians. We're going to basal with them, enactment them conscionable similar they enactment america each time successful this province," the premier said.

"It's their turn. It's their crook to get attraction from us."

"Here is simply a assemblage that has done thing but give, that has been overlooked successful presumption of their contributions to this province, to this city, to this country," helium said.

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Eby acknowledgment archetypal responders

The premier said helium was besides moved by archetypal responders’ enactment past night.

He offered an example, saying paramedics initially warned they were going to beryllium slower to respond due to the fact that of the measurement of radical who needed help, but rapidly said they’d beryllium backmost connected way due to the fact that further paramedics showed up to work.

He thanked infirmary workers from laboratory techs to cleaning unit for keeping hospitals moving past night.

Turn feelings of ‘rage’ into enactment instead, Eby says

“For maine and I cognize for galore radical successful this moment, it’s hard … not to consciousness rage astatine the antheral who did this,” said Eby.

“We don’t cognize why. But I privation to crook the rage that I consciousness into ensuring that we basal with the Filipino community. That we present what they need. That we basal with those families that person mislaid loved ones, with those that person been injured,” helium said.

Premier says he’s been with assemblage members

Eby said helium started getting texts astir the incidental astatine astir 8:45 p.m. past night. He said he’s been speaking with assemblage members this morning, immoderate of whom were astatine the festival and others who spent the nighttime successful hospitals.

“The grief close present and the solidarity with the Filipino assemblage … it’s nationalist and adjacent international.”

Vancouver schools to alert flags astatine half-mast

The schoolhouse committee issued a connection offering condolences to those who mislaid loved ones past nighttime and those recovering from their injuries. It said unit are arranging enactment for the schoolhouse assemblage and that each of its schools and offices volition beryllium flying flags astatine half-mast.

The connection did not marque circumstantial notation of John Oliver Secondary School, the grounds of which hosted the festival past night. Areas astir those grounds are inactive down constabulary portion today.