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The impossible dream

I dedicate this column to all my readers to whom I’m incredibly grateful. Thank you for taking the time to provide me with invaluable feedback and support through this column. More importantly, thank you for sharing with me your hopes and dreams for our country. Writing here has given me such great joy. In deference to our election laws, however, this will be my last article for a while. Until then, please let me leave with you my insights, hopes and dreams for our country and the Filipino people, as we carefully choose our future elected leaders.

Here are some things I hope to see over the next three years. I look forward to the immediate creation of the Department of Water Management and the Department of Disaster Resilience. It is reiterated that the “National Water Resource Management Act” or Senate Bill No. 102 filed last July 7, 2022 is a good starting point for lasting reforms in water sustainability, flood management and resource security. Bills on the disaster resilience, including Senate Bill No. 1735 filed since March 2018, are relatedly of prime importance for our food security, built-to-last infrastructure and inclusive economic progress. These are not ‘hot’ issues right now, but it does not make it any less vital. We should not only talk about flooding when floodwaters are already higher than houses.

Let’s empower Filipinos with better businesses, jobs and social protection. As the World Bank suggests, our focus should be 3i’s – investments, infusion and innovation. Attracting, accelerating and generating investments in the Philippines allows us to harness the best practices, technologies and talents from all over the globe and infuse it into our own domestic economy, infrastructure and people. In my time working with the Philippines-Korea Economic Council, I saw the potential in trade missions that help build relations between countries and allow more opportunities for both, but we need support from government to make it easier for people to invest in the Philippines and the Filipino people. Senators and congressmen and women sought to accomplish the necessary series of landmark legislation through Amended Public Service Act (RA 11659), amended

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