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Newstalk 1010: Jim Richards' The Rundown with Jon Liedtke & Jimmy Zoubris - June 19, 2024 · Kvetch & Release

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  This is News Talk Tonight with Jim Richards on the iHeartRadio Talk Network. Want
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  to go all of you, especially if you are under the heat Dome,
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  although again I'm from Toronto and I still call it the sky Dome. You're
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  not gonna get me on the Rogers Dome. Nope. The weather that we
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  are experiencing, and again I don't want to do I think I've done it
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  every year since I've been in radio. When the temperatures are like this,
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  call us up. If you've got a bad job to be out in the
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  end, it's roofers, it's people, asphalt, It's like the mascot at
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  a sporting event in that outfit. Yeah, those are the worst jobs to
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  have. Let's say I do our panelist today, Special Advisor to the Mayor
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  of Montreal, Jimmy Zubras joins us right now and John Lidkey is with us
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  as well. He is a radio on podcast host out of Windsor, Ontario.
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  Check out his podcast called COVEC. John Litkey and Jimmy Superscott, thank
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  you very much for your time. Thank you, y Jeff. How are
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  you guys fairing today? How's Windsor Farren? First of all, in this
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  weather, John, it's very hot, it's sticky. It's like you walk
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  outside and somehow you end up covered in just like this jello like substance that's
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  all over you and you need a shower when you get back inside. Did
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  you know that human x our humidity makes it almost impossible for us to sweat?
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  Did you know that? Well, I don't know. I'll challenge you
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  on that because I think I start sweating once summer comes and it really doesn't
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  know. So what the expert said, I'm not going to argue with the
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  expert. You can argue with the expert. Do it on your own show.
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  Cavech by the way to find it wherever find podcasts are Jimmy, how's
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  Montreal doing? Montreal is always fantastic in the summertime, maybe the best Canadian
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  city in the summer time. Absolutely gorgeous. It's very very hot thing even
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  hotter, but it's you know what, I don't mind it. And it's
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  not only hot in terms of the heat home, but I'm about three blocks.
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  I live about three blocks where Air Paulias speaking tonight, So it's hot
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  politically where I am too. Well, let's talk a little bit about both
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  sides. Let's talk a little bit about that. I know he ditched CJAD
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  and if people who don't know CJD is a huge part of English speaking Montreal,
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  he canceled there. That probably wasn't a smart idea. How susceptible are
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  the liberals in Quebec and would it be Peer Paulief and the Conservatives that would
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  make any headway there? No, there's no. I mean, look,
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  his numbers are certainly better than what I believe his predecessors had. But you
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  know, they they went around ten twelve seats around the Quebec city area.
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  There's one seat they're targeting really heavily. That's why they're an Anthony house Father's
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  writing tonight and they're going to announce a fairly well known candidate who's going to
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  go up against Anthony house Father in a few minutes. So they you know,
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  they're they're looking at SETA. But look in Quebec, it's it's liberals
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  and certainly the block and I mean the the NDP of they're down to one
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  seat, and certainly I mean the Conservatives would maybe hope to maybe a couple
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  of breakthroughs, but I can't really see it right now. Look, he's
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  uh, I'll tell you one thing. He spent probably a lot more time
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  in Anthony house Father's writing then I think he spent a lot of other writings.
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  So it's got to be good for fundraising and certainly for good for targetting
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  a certain certain portion of the population. Okay, let's take a look at
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  these numbers, and these pulling numbers are pretty crazy. Well listen, uh,
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  maybe they're not shocking to a lot of people, but six eight percent
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  of the people right across this country want Justin Trudeau to step down, according
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  to a new poll from Ipsos. John I guess that's not surprising, but
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  these are remarkably bad numbers. And I'm wondering if I mean, we've asked
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  this question maybe for the past year and a half, if and when Trudeau
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  should step down, Well, it seems like it should be getting to be
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  a question of like, not if anymore, but when, and probably sooner
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  than later, if they want the party to be able to move past his
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  brand bringing things down. The fact that the desire for him to quit it
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  is at the highest in Alberta at seventy nine, but then also Atlantic Canada
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  at seventy six. I mean that is just that is staggering because Atlantic Canada
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  was like the last bastion of hope. It was the Obi Wan Kenobi.
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  Yeah. No, I mean the numbers are something else. Jimmy, Jimmy,
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  See, it's incredible, how it's can you hear me, sorry,
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  it's incredible. How we saw the poll numbers and I kept saying to myself,
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  he can't get any lower, he can't get any lower, he can't
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  get any lower. And yet look at it, it's getting lower and lower.
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  And at the same time, it's not like Pierre pauliev is offering anything
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  new. He's been on the same acts, attacks and certain other things.
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  At the same time, he hasn't really announced any new candidates or any start
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  candidates. He's been you know, he's been consistent and Trudeau just can't seem
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  to grab any traction. The one thing, though, is is that it's
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  justin Trudeau's going to decide when he leaves. There's nobody chomping at the bids.
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  They're all really very careful. It's still his party. I think the
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  by election results in the next few days might actually push things. And I
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  think I think members of his cock has got to start saying, hey,
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  we're worried about our seat. Now. Latest poll had them winning twenty four
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  seats. Even if that's wrong, in it's forty eight seats. What are
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  we at now once sixty eight or something on seventy, Like, we're talking
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  about complete demolitition right across this country and especially especially in the Maritimes. So
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  I don't know, I think that, you know, I've sort of kept
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  thinking that maybe he's you know, he's got something left in the tank,
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  but I can't see it right now. It's it's going to be very tough
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  for him to cut the rebound from this. So the numbers, I mean,
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  everybody's talking about this Saint Paul election in Toronto. Toronto has been a
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  Liberal stronghold. They've held that seat through the Mike lignacchevs and the Stephan Dion's.
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  But people are concerned for two reasons because it has a Jewish community and
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  the way that the Jewish community feels about Justin Trudeau sitting on the fence given
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  what is going on with a lot of anti Semitism and the fact that there's
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  just Justin Trudeau. But I'm hearing people say that they probably should be able
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  to hold on to that. Let's move along. Lots of things to talk
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  about today. I wanted to talk in Montreal about what is going on at
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  MCGIL because the universities and the same thing happening at the University of Toronto,
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  are trying to make an argument in court there is real harm being done on
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  campuses because of these encampments that want links to Israel to end with their university.
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  When I say they're I'm saying majority. I don't even know how many
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  of these people who are in these and campus are students, so just some
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  of them are. But I bring it up because Montreal the injunction was turned
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  down today and they're still going through all of this process of all these different
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  AFFI davids and hearing from everybody in Toronto. But they have to be able
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  to prove real harm. And the fact is at this point, John,
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  we don't hear anything about what's going on there, meaning things going sideways.
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  The only thing we hear about is when they're in court. So I don't
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  know if they can argue that there's real harm the way they need to.
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  Because the judge of Montreal said, wait a second, you can't say that
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  the convocation is harm because you guys move that successfully, So where's the harm?
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  This is a tough situation. By allowing the encampments to be set up,
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  they are not coming as swiftly as they should have in my opinion,
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  to take them down, knowing that it was being set up for the long
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  term, sort of like the convoy situation that we had. They've now opened
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  themselves up to this situation in court where a judge's going, come on,
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  you guys were playing by different rules because you're asking us to play by different
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  rules. I don't know what the answer is going to be with this one,
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  but as long as people aren't being hurt, as long as it's not
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  being too agreedious to the point that police need to intervene due to public safety,
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  I think we're in a bit of a perpetual limbo here. What about
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  things in Montreal, Jimmy, Well, first of all, there's been two
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  injunctions that were refused right away, and both of them argued urgency. By
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  the way, the lawyer who presented both those injunctions is also going to be
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  the Conservative candidate against Anthony house Father. There's a third injunction which the university
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  did and the judge again said no problem, I'll hear it out, but
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  there's no urgency. And I believe the next date they have in court is
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  the twenty fifth of July, and there it's not even to hear the case,
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  it's to set up when they will be hearing the case. So in
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  all cases the judges have said that you have to show us urgency. And
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  you know, one of the urgencies might have been I know you mentioned the
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  graduation, but they found another option. They were able to go to the
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  Bell Center. Now it ended up costing them seven hundred thousand dollars, but
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  again they weren't able to prove urgency. And it comes down to a few
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  weeks ago. You know, one of the things is less and less people
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  seem to be talking about the encampments, although it is still there in the
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  new So they went into one of the administration buildings a few weeks ago and
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  the police had to intervene. That now has become part of the negotiations in
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  terms of amnesty for those that were involved. We'll break it down a little
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  bit later on the lawyer who specializes in injunctions. More of the rundown next
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  on the Iheartalk Radio Network. Welcome back to news Talk Tonight with Jim Richards
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  on the iHeartRadio Talk Network. Say it's Monday, right, and it's Monday,
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  and I bring up justin Timberlake and you're like, yeah, I hate
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  that guy. This is before the DUI. Sorry, it's DWI at America
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  right, driving while influenced. I don't know what is it? Driving while
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  intoxicated? Yeah, thank you very much. Is there a prize now?
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  But people hated them before that. People are like, oh, karma,
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  ah, the karma? Is that true? We'll find out in about fifteen
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  minutes time. I don't know if you care. Maybe I hope you do,
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  because fifteen minutes from now, I would love to still be spending some
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  time with you. Right now, we're spending time with Jimmy Zubers and also
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  John Lydgy. John Liddkey is a radio host in Windsor also has a podcast,
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  Cavetch, and Jimmy Zubers is an advisor to the mayor of Montreal.
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  So we have discussed the encampments and again I think like I think there's that
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  I would love it to be a situation where they just went away because they're
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  not in the news cycle. Anymore. And if people just stop paying attention
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  to them, I wonder if you know, July comes around and like,
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  you guys are still here. Yeah, No, we're gonna leave now because
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  nobody's paying attention to us anything longer. But what I find really egregious is,
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  and we'll faret this out when we talk to a lawyer who specializes in
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  this kind of stuff. I mean, if you go the head of McGill
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  or the head of the University of Toronto or any university, there are checkpoints
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  where students will allow or disallow you, and this is your property, not
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  their property. I guess if their students could say it's their property. But
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  I digest. Let's keep on moving, Okay. There's a story where and
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  we've talked about. I think it's one of the catchphrases that Pierre Pouliev has.
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  He has acts the tax, he's got jail, not bail. And
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  there's a story I think that we sent you John of some dude in a
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  traffic altercation where he gets out of a knife and he starts waving it at
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  somebody and he gets bail. And listen, I guess the standard should be,
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  are you a threat to anybody? Are you violent? I would say
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  the part of this guy sentence hopefully eventually means you can't drive. Like maybe
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  we can't stop the guy from him owning a knife, but if you're gonna
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  go off like that and grab a knife because of your road rage, maybe
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  you should never be able to drive again. John, Yeah, I mean
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  sure. This is an absolutely terrifying video. And you know, as catchy
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  as jail not bail is, I think it speaks to something here. The
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  guy was already on bail, even though charged with two counts of breaching previous
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  court conditions. I think the average person looks at this and go watches the
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  video and goes, how could that a be happening? But b this be
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  something that is Is this a common occurrence for this guy? This is a
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  terrifying situation on our public roadways and it's, in my opinion, it's something
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  that needs to be dealt with sooner than later. People need to feel safe
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  on our streets. I got. I don't know if the situation is in
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  Quebec, Jimmy, but I know in Ontario this number is startling to me
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  when we talk with jail not bail and we think that everybody's getting out.
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  Eighty two percent of the people in Ontario in prison are awaiting trial. Think
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  of that number. Eighty two percent are awaiting trial, and this guy doesn't
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  qualify. So that's what is amazing to me. But also I know all
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  other people like, would you get involved, Like what would you do if
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  this guy comes at you with a knife. A lot of people are like
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  in situations like, oh, I'd get involved, and I'd be a tough
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  guy and I'd bring him down. I don't know. That's why some of
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  the biggest people who are experts in self defense would say, yeah, you
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  don't want, don't get involved. You don't know if somebody's got knife,
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  a gun, any number of different things. Jimmy, Well, first of
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  all, if you're out on bail, I mean I'm no expert. I
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  can't speak from personal experience, but I've always understood that, you know,
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  if you're out on bail, depending on what it is, you can't be
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  in the possession of a weapon. A knife is a weapon, Yeah,
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  anyway you look at it, right, I mean, that should have been
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  I think flag number one for the cops. The other thing, too,
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  I know was an issue here. I don't know if it was an issue
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  on Harry and other places. But I know over here for the last little
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  while before COVID, there was a huge problem in terms of the backlog of
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  cases. Right. In fact, going back a few years, I remember
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  they had to drop some cases against some Hell's Angels that they were against because
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  they took too long, right, Because there's also that factor. So that's
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  an issue too, and I'm sure the police take that into consideration and certainly
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  to present, you know, is he dangerous? Isn't he not dangerous?
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  Now this might be one case where you know, somebody made a judgment call
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  and obviously was wrong because if you know, if you if you at the
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  snap of just being in road rage, and let me tell you something,
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  I spent half the day in traffic today. I was in the road rage
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  the whole day. Yeah, so you know, and you could get out
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  with a knife. There might be a problem with you there. I'm gonna
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  throw a bit of a curve ball at you, guys. The Godfather of
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  AI, interviewed by CTV, says this. Almost every decent researcher I know
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  believes that in the long run, it'll get more intelligent than us. It's
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  not going to stop at our intelligence. A few people believe that, but
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  because it's training on data from US at present, But most of their searches
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  I know, are fairly confident we have more intelligent than us. So the
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  real question is how long will that take, and when it does, will
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  we still be able to keep control. What it's really interesting to me,
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  John, is that it just seems like we're going to be okay with putting
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  the guardrails up when it's too late. And I don't know. I try
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  to deal with some customer service earlier today, and I have no idea why
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  so many corporations have gone to these automated bots that think that they can interact
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  with the public. They can't. They're entirely incompetent. But one day maybe
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  they will be able to. Do you think governments should be looking towards putting
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  up the guardrails earlier than maybe we will. I think so, But I
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  think that would also require our governments. Do you have to start to understand
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  what social media is? Quite frankly, they're like twenty five years away.
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  No, like at the federal level. And this is not just in our
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  country. It's you know, countries around the world have no real scope of
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  how the Internet actually works today, and that's not even getting into discussing AI.
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  So should they be yes? Will they be yes? Will it be
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  in time? Let's hope that Skynett doesn't become aware before that. I mean,
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  he's basically describing movie plot that we've all seen. Jimmy, Yeah,
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  not only that, It's funny you mentioned this subject because just yesterday I was
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  I was going through some of my emails and I got a couple of what
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  would be standard emails, you know, where like I sent you something and
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  you said back, hey, thanks a lot for this whatever, And the
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  emails were just so beautifully written, thank you very much, we really blah
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  blah blah. And I'm like, Okay, this person went at GPT or
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  something and you know, put it in and wrote me the most beautiful thank
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  you we could ever imagine for just the smallest little thing. So it's over
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  our lives a lot of people, more and more are using it. But
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  John's absolutely right, And I know I come from, you know, working
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  with the city whatever we don't, I don't. I sometimes have trouble seeing
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  how the city, and certainly other government agencies I work with, how they
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  use social media and if they truly understand a lot of the the Internet and
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  so on. So John's absolutely right about that, is that there seems to
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  be a large disconnect between the two and I think that that's where the big
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  problem is right now. Guys, thank you very much, have great Uh.
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  I was gonna say weekend, but yes, have a good weekend,
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  have a good night, do all of those things. Appreciate your time.
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  Thank you all right. That said Jimmy Zubras, who is a special advisor
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  to the Mayor of Montreal and John Lidkey is the host of a podcast called
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  Caveshi and it's also a radio host with our sister station in a Windsor.
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  I just wanted to end on one, not say swinging at the play,
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  say say it will that dies in a street man. If you love baseball,
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  one of the greats passed away yesterday at the age of ninety three.
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  One of the most beloved figures in sports, Willie Mays that say hey kid,
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  talked about how he feels when people come up to him and say he's
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  the greatest. Will May is the greatest baseball play of whole time. I
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  don't do that. So many things happen with me on a baseball field that
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  I could just look back and just replay every moment. I never had a
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  day where somebody would not come up and say, I saw you make a
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  play. I love you because of what you did for me. And it
• 19:52
  made me feel very, very proud, because not only did I play baseball
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  for the people, they enjoy what I did. If you like baseball and
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  you know sports, you'll know the catch an impossible catch, but it wasn't
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  just a catch. Up is the fact that he could get the ball back
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  into the infield and make sure nothing bad happened. He started off in the
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  Negro Leagues and played for the Giants in the major leagues in nineteen fifty.
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  He retired in nineteen seventy three, six hundred and sixty home runs, three
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  thousand, two hundred and eighty three hits. Won only one World Series in
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  nineteen fifty four, but he also served in the United States Military for two
• 20:37
  years prior to that win. And within the past week and this week,
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  several minor league teams around the country have started to down Negro League's tribute uniforms
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  in games. Willie Mays the Great dead at the age of ninety three.
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  In a moment, we'll find why people have such a hate on for Justin
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  timber Lake on the iHeart Talk radio network