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VOCM Morning Update August 23 · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Brian Madore. A pilot and passenger on board a
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  Speaker 1: float plane that went down in the woods near Patty's
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  Speaker 1: Pond outside Saint John's last evening, managed to walk away
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  Speaker 1: from the crash. Officials held the scene overnight, penning the
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  Speaker 1: arrival of Transportation Safety Board officials who will examine the
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  Speaker 1: cause of the crash. The emergency response resulted in the
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  Speaker 1: temporary closure of the westbound lanes of the Trans Canada
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  Speaker 1: near Paddy's Pond. A man has been charged with drunk
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  Speaker 1: driving After a little boozing and snoozing. Iron C officers
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  Speaker 1: found the twenty three year old passed out behind the
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  Speaker 1: wheel of a car in the Freshwater Road area of
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  Speaker 1: Saint John's Round six thirty Saturday morning. He failed the
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  Speaker 1: breathalyzer and was released to appear in court at a
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  Speaker 1: later date. The premier says Prime Minister Mark Kearney has
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  Speaker 1: his full support as the provinces maintain a united Team
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  Speaker 1: Canada approach to its trade dispute with the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Premier Tony Wakem posted yesterday that the province stands firmly
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  Speaker 1: with Team Canada. He also offered his thanks to the
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  Speaker 1: federal government's negotiating team for their work and decision in
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  Speaker 1: navigating discussions with an unpredictable partner. What economic impact of
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  Speaker 1: fifty percent terriffs the United States has imposed on Canadian
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  Speaker 1: goods will have on local industry remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Mark Kearney addressed the nation yesterday afternoon, accusing
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  Speaker 1: the United States of changing the terms in the few
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  Speaker 1: days leading up to the Friday midnight deadline. He says
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  Speaker 1: Canada could not accept what the US was offering, nor
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  Speaker 1: could a give what they were asking for. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: has imposed fifty percent terrorifts, so Canada will impose matching
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  Speaker 1: retaliatory duties to take effect just after Labor Day. Kearney says,
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  Speaker 1: we are masters of our own destiny.
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  Speaker 2: This government is matching that spirit with twenty five billion
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  Speaker 2: dollars to protect Canadian workers and businesses hurt by American tariffs.
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  Speaker 2: We're helping small and medium sized businesses respond by investing
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  Speaker 2: equipment and productivity in supply chain resilience, and we're financing
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  Speaker 2: large companies to keep large employers operating and to retain
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  Speaker 2: their workers. We're helping those hardest hit industries retool and
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  Speaker 2: pivot to those new international markets.
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  Speaker 1: He also says the US wanted to restrict Canada's ability
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  Speaker 1: to enter into other trade deals.
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  Speaker 2: What we've accomplished in the last year twenty new deals,
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  Speaker 2: economic and security partnership, the prospect of doubling our market
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  Speaker 2: access because we believe in free trade, were the partner
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  Speaker 2: of choice in many respects for countries around the world,
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  Speaker 2: and the Americans wanted to restrict that. They had language
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  Speaker 2: that they wanted to restrict. That unacceptable.
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  Speaker 1: In sports, yesterday the Toronto Blue Jays outlasted the New
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  Speaker 1: York Yankees. Final score there four to three. They have
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  Speaker 1: the rubber match coming this afternoon now starts at about
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  Speaker 1: three o'clock Island time to thirty hearts of Labrador. That's
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  Speaker 1: your news. I'm Brian the door