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  Speaker 1: Brilliant, more crazy you designed Genevelitis On six' ten C
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  Speaker 1: Ktv Niagres news And.
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  Speaker 2: Talk, oh it's time for Lead key as a take
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  Speaker 2: With john Led. Key good, Morning, John good, Morning. Gene,
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  Speaker 2: Well europe is going through one heck of a heat,
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  Speaker 2: wave record smashing highs around forty five degrees, celsius which
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  Speaker 2: is one hundred and twelve degrees. Fahrenheit, Now, john you
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  Speaker 2: picked up on, this and this is going to be
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  Speaker 2: an interesting take for me this. Morning we're seeing a
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  Speaker 2: very bizarre situation In europe where record heat waves are
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  Speaker 2: forcing nuclear plants to actually shut down due to environmental,
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  Speaker 2: rules and now they're turning on fossil fuel gas plants
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  Speaker 2: to keep what air conditioning they have. Running, now how
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  Speaker 2: do they get trapped into this really weird grid? Paradox
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  Speaker 2: this is.
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  Speaker 1: Peak european climate, irony. Gene but, first when you we've
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  Speaker 1: got your special guest On opposition Leader, paualia please ask
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  Speaker 1: him how important air conditioning is For. Canadians AND i
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  Speaker 1: mean that like very, legitimately BECAUSE i think this is
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  Speaker 1: a very serious. Topic we've got a historic heat wave
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  Speaker 1: happening right, now spiking demand In, europe and when they
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  Speaker 1: need their emissions free nuclear. Power the most bureaucratic environmental
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  Speaker 1: regulations have forced those plants to throttle down by over four.
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  Speaker 1: Gigawatts now that's enough juice to power three back the
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  Speaker 1: future time, machines to put it into pop culture. Parlance
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  Speaker 1: but the only reason this is actually happening is because
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  Speaker 1: the river cooling waters have gotten too warm for fish
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  Speaker 1: according to the. Regulations so what's the fix for. That
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  Speaker 1: they fired up the fossil fuel plants that they don't
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  Speaker 1: want to have to run at all that they've been
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  Speaker 1: trying to phase, out and as a result of, that
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  Speaker 1: power prices have gone through the. Roof but this is
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  Speaker 1: what happens when progressive policy models ignore basic laws of.
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  Speaker 1: Thermodynamics you've got a rigid ideology that's colliding with brutal
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  Speaker 1: physics and the grid that you want to build or
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  Speaker 1: impose through bureaucratic. Regulations it's going to lose every time to.
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  Speaker 2: Nature, yeah you, Know i've always said this is just
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  Speaker 2: my personal. Opinion if you're going to have, heat you,
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  Speaker 2: know in the, winter you should probably have air conditioning
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  Speaker 2: in the. Summer But europe has historically had this really
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  Speaker 2: weird anti ac dogma they view air conditioning as this
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  Speaker 2: Unnecessary american. Luxury do you think this brutal reality temperatures
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  Speaker 2: at one hundred and twelve fahrenheit are going to shatter that?
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  Speaker 1: Mindset oh, yeah, Absolutely. Gene look for Decades european elites
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  Speaker 1: have looked down their noses at air. Conditioning they dismiss
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  Speaker 1: it as some Tacky american luxury that ruins historic. Esthetics
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  Speaker 1: and it's even to the extent THAT i think it.
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  Speaker 1: Was The Swiss olympic team blame their loss a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago on the air conditioning in their hotel.
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  Speaker 1: Rooms and this time or The World, cup excuse, me
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  Speaker 1: this time, around they're not using air conditioning when they're In.
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  Speaker 1: AMERICA i, mean it's. Nonsense it's just this mindset is.
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  Speaker 1: Pervasive but bureaucrats have buried installing air conditioning under so
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  Speaker 1: much red tape across The European. Union but it's practically
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  Speaker 1: illegal for some, citizens and WHEN i say, SOME i
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  Speaker 1: mean millions to even get a unit. Installed but reality
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  Speaker 1: is a brutal, Teacher. Gene when the temperature hits you,
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  Speaker 1: know forty four, degrees like it did In france a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days and goes in some, regions ac stops
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  Speaker 1: being a luxury or an ideological, pursuit and it becomes
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  Speaker 1: a baseline survival. Instinct there's even green politicians now who
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  Speaker 1: have spent years mocking this, technology who are quietly, backtracking
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  Speaker 1: albeit through. Media and then there are even populous who
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  Speaker 1: are capitalizing on the frustration with putting forward massive spending
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  Speaker 1: promises for air conditioning for. Homeowners so ideology is cracking
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  Speaker 1: because people have quite literally found themselves baking in their
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  Speaker 1: own living.
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  Speaker 2: Rooms, yeah the climate change. Bedwetters, now you've mentioned that
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  Speaker 2: the battle over air conditioning In canada won't be in
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  Speaker 2: a right band but rather what you term soft. Control
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  Speaker 2: so what does that mean for the average, homeowner their
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  Speaker 2: electricity bill or their. Thermoscat.
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  Speaker 1: YEAH i don't think they're going to explicitly ban it, Here.
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  Speaker 1: Gene that would be a political suicide, pact especially after
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  Speaker 1: we've seen heat waves that have reframed cooling as a
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  Speaker 1: fundamental public health necessity across this. Country BUT i, mean,
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  Speaker 1: instead we've got to look past these ideologue ideological ideas
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  Speaker 1: and try to get to what the actual fact is
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  Speaker 1: that matters to people that they're sweating over their own hydro.
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  Speaker 1: Bill so the real issue is that we're walking into
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  Speaker 1: an unintended policy. Trap THE feds and the provinces are
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  Speaker 1: aggressively subsidizing heat pumps to force homes off natural. Gas
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  Speaker 1: but the catches that a heat pump is literally just
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  Speaker 1: a central air conditioner that can run and. Reverse by
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  Speaker 1: mandating these units or by incentivizing them for winter green,
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  Speaker 1: targets bureaucrats are accidentally injecting massive summer cooling capacity into
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  Speaker 1: millions Of canadian homes that never have had it. Before
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  Speaker 1: so we're super charging a summer grid demand while pretending
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  Speaker 1: that we're shrinking our carbon, footprint which is WHY i
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  Speaker 1: think we're seeing these new aggressive power. Targets we've seen
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  Speaker 1: nuclear timelines like over the past couple, days and THAT'S
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  Speaker 1: i think why.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's a massive new player straining our grid that
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  Speaker 2: people aren't talking about. Enough that is artificial intelligence and data. Centers,
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  Speaker 2: well there was a huge town hall meeting In, hamilton
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  Speaker 2: what was it two three weeks ago because a developer
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do exactly, that put a BIG ali and
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  Speaker 2: data center in near the lake In. Hamilton like hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of people came out to a town hall, meeting And
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  Speaker 2: Hamilton City council, said, well, okay that ain't going to.
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  Speaker 2: Happen so when a severe summer heat wave hits in the,
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  Speaker 2: future with artificial intelligence growing and growing every, day who
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  Speaker 2: do you think is going to win the power? Struggle
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  Speaker 2: my living room or the tech.
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  Speaker 1: Giants this is the massive elephant in the room gene
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  Speaker 1: that politicians are desperately trying to ignore or get you
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  Speaker 1: to think of other things. About the real strain, isn't of,
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  Speaker 1: course your residential ac against the green. Mandates it's the
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  Speaker 1: living room Versus Silicone valley and THE ai and the
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  Speaker 1: data centers their power hungry, monsters and they require gargantuan
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  Speaker 1: amounts of continuous electricity and NonStop cooling just to avoid a.
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  Speaker 1: Meltdown BUT i think of here in windsor if it
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  Speaker 1: came down to Keeping chrysler, open or it came down
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  Speaker 1: to making sure that the air conditioning is on for
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  Speaker 1: all of the residents in the. CITY i don't know
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  Speaker 1: how that choice would be, made or if it's even
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  Speaker 1: possible to decide to allocate electricity in that type of a.
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  Speaker 1: Way but at the end of the, DAY i, mean
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  Speaker 1: we just saw In ottawa the local hydro utility warned
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  Speaker 1: that a new data center requests equal almost ninety percent
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  Speaker 1: of the city's average. Usage and we're seeing those types
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  Speaker 1: of stories city after city after. City so when a
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  Speaker 1: severe heat wave does, hit utilities are going to face
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  Speaker 1: a brutal dystopian. Choice we keep the guests, like how
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  Speaker 1: do you choose what stays up or do you have
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  Speaker 1: to let it all go down once you reach that?
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  Speaker 1: Peak BECAUSE i remember, brownouts you, know twenty twenty five years,
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  Speaker 1: ago and they requested that you stop using, it BUT
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  Speaker 1: i don't think they were able to just shut it
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  Speaker 1: off until it blew. Up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, alex our meteurologist here tells me that next
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  Speaker 2: week is going to be super hot and really, humid
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  Speaker 2: WHICH i, hate BUT i do have air. Conditioning but
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  Speaker 2: you've said that When richard climate climate policy collides with
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  Speaker 2: brutal human, physics the grid always. Loses so what's the
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  Speaker 2: ultimate wake up call For canada's energy?
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  Speaker 1: Planners this is the thing the math does not add, Up.
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  Speaker 1: Gene we're trying to phase out reliable baseline power where mandate,
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  Speaker 1: evs we're transitioning home heating to the electric, grid and
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  Speaker 1: we're feeding INSATIABLE ai infrastructure and data, centers all while
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  Speaker 1: expecting a legacy system when we have to be clear about.
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  Speaker 1: That this is a legacy system that was not built
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  Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty six that we're in right, now
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  Speaker 1: and we're expecting it to withstand the extreme weather of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six as. Well so the math is not
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  Speaker 1: mathing and we cannot policy our way out of the
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  Speaker 1: laws of. Physics so If canadian energy planners don't inject
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  Speaker 1: immediate grid realism into these aggressive performative timelines that we're looking,
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  Speaker 1: at the system will eventually, buckle and that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a very bad. Thing no one liked those brownouts
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  Speaker 1: of twenty five years. Ago so ideology looks great on
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  Speaker 1: a whiteboard and it plays good and sound, bites and
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  Speaker 1: it might even get you. Elected but when the heat,
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  Speaker 1: hits the electrons are going to have to, flow and
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  Speaker 1: it's time to build for, reality not for bureaucratic fantasy.
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  Speaker 1: Models but, hey this Is. Canada we love our bureaucratic fantasy.
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  Speaker 1: Models gene.
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  Speaker 2: Another great, Take John, Letgate thank you stay cool this.
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  Speaker 1: Weekend hey you, too turn it down right there.
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  Speaker 2: You Goes john Let key with A letgate. Take he's
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  Speaker 2: a good. Guy