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610 CKTB| Sticker Shock & Speed Traps: Are Speed Cameras About Road Safety or Just a Cash Grab? · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: Every Tuesday morning, our regular contributor John Lidkey is here.
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  Speaker 1: He's rough, he's tough, he's gruff. Yeah, I like him
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  Speaker 1: when you don't. It's just like that, Good morning John.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Geene. I'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to change the subject for a second.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Trafford and I kind of touched on this a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. I was never in fate of the speed cameras.
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  Speaker 1: I said it was a revenue graba. I agreed with
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  Speaker 1: Ford many people, including the mayor of Saint Catharines. We
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  Speaker 1: both respectfully disagree on this. But they're coming up with
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  Speaker 1: the big signs and from the people who brought you
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  Speaker 1: the stickers that didn't stick, now we have signs that
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  Speaker 1: are too big for polls.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know this is crazy. We've got the Michael
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  Speaker 2: Angelo of adhesives here at the Helm, and unfortunately Ontario
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  Speaker 2: is now a place where stickers and signs seem to
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  Speaker 2: go to die. Obviously, though it's ironic that the Premier
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  Speaker 2: now has a three run streak when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: flubs on stickers, signage and displays, generally considering his past
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  Speaker 2: life as the CEO of Deco Labels and whatnot, But
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's let's push pass, just the ironic and
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  Speaker 2: the funny nature of it. It doesn't mean that the
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  Speaker 2: premier is bad at the job or the governments and shambles,
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  Speaker 2: of course, but it is bad optics. And the one
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  Speaker 2: thing that he would expect, though, is that he would
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  Speaker 2: be really good and master of the universe in this realm.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if a doctor became a premier and botched
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  Speaker 2: the healthcare system, we'd all be outraged. But when the
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  Speaker 2: label king can't seem to get a sticker to stick
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  Speaker 2: or a license plate to reflect properly, it just seems
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  Speaker 2: to hurt the competent businessman brand that was wrapped up
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  Speaker 2: in him. And again, I don't think it's reflective on
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  Speaker 2: the government. It's just unfortunate optics.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So were you in favor of speed cameras or
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  Speaker 1: like me? Yeah, you thought you were. See, I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was the cash grap Oh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't care. Sure, let them be a
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  Speaker 2: cash grab. I mean, listen, I'll all to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: All that I hear when people complain about them, and
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  Speaker 2: I mean this entirely personally directed at Eugene is I
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  Speaker 2: want to break the law and I don't think that
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  Speaker 2: I should face repercussion for it if I can get
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  Speaker 2: away with it, And you know, heck yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if that's the argument, that's the argument. I can honestly
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  Speaker 2: appreciate the big brother monitoring aspect. And do we need
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  Speaker 2: to have all these cameras at all the time. And
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  Speaker 2: there are arguments that if we do just look at
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  Speaker 2: this as a cash grab and revenue generating tool, what
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  Speaker 2: other ways would the government look to do the similar
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  Speaker 2: thing with other aspects of system delivery or delivery of
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  Speaker 2: services in our local jurisdictions. So I can see both angles,
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  Speaker 2: but this is not one that really affected me much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, since they've been gone, I haven't heard
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  Speaker 1: anybody say, oh, our roads are so unsafe. The only
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  Speaker 1: thing I've been hearing are politicians going on about we
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  Speaker 1: lost revenues, We lost revenues and all along. I said
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  Speaker 1: it was all about revenues, not road safety. And I
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard anybody talking about road safety. It's all our revenues,
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  Speaker 1: like thirteen million dollars here in Horror area alone. What
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  Speaker 1: are we going to do without all this money? That
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  Speaker 1: sounds like a cash grab to me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my father used to always say whenever there
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  Speaker 2: were debates about well, he still continues to say this
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  Speaker 2: whenever there's road debates and safety debates about putting up
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  Speaker 2: stop signs or new calming measures. What is the justification
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  Speaker 2: for this? Has there been accidents here before? Has someone
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  Speaker 2: been hit by a car at this intersection before? And
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  Speaker 2: if not, then why is this conversation being prompted right now?
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  Speaker 2: If we have a track record of seventy five plus
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  Speaker 2: years of nothing major happening here, then is this just
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  Speaker 2: unnecessary bureaucracy?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be, John, I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's the question, and it's up in the air
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  Speaker 1: until the signs and the speed bumps arrive. I guess
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  Speaker 1: there you go, John, Always great to talk to you
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday morning. Thank you so much, love your perspectives.
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  Speaker 2: R thank you, Jane.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there he goes, John Litkey. We have them on
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  Speaker 1: every Tuesday morning.