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Friday Roundtable with Steve Erwin, David Cassidy, & Alicia Higgison · Kvetch & Release

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Speaker 1: Good morning everyone, Welcome to the Dan McDonald Show. John
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Speaker 1: McKeith here filling in for Dan McDonald, who will be
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Speaker 1: back hosting this show next Tuesday. He's been filling in
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Speaker 1: this week for Mike Kacook on the Morning Drive, which
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Speaker 1: is why I have been here with you this whole week.
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Speaker 1: It is Friday, which means it is time for our
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Speaker 1: Friday round table from Windsor Regional Hospital. Stever one joins
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Speaker 1: me right now.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, doing worry John, Good to be here.
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Speaker 1: Great to have you here in the studio. We also
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Speaker 1: have Alicia Higginson from Tacomseee City Council. How you doing
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Speaker 1: doing really well? Thanks for joining me. We also have
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Speaker 1: who all of you of course, now, Dave Cassidy in
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Speaker 1: the studio. How you doing.
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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Thanks for having me here.
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Speaker 1: How's a retirement?
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Speaker 3: Stress free? Loving it?
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Speaker 1: That's no more phone calls, no more like just got
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Speaker 1: to deal with this right now. Yeah, I didn't even
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Speaker 1: realize my phone worked anymore. Well, We're glad to have
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Speaker 1: all of you here in the studio. Thanks for joining
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Speaker 1: nine oh eight right now here on this Friday long weekend,
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Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend. So we're just gonna start things off
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Speaker 1: with a little bit of a quick rundown. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you all know everything is sometimes open, sometimes closed. What
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Speaker 1: is open? What is closed? You can head to uh
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Speaker 1: CTV Windsor they've got a great article up that's saying
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Speaker 1: talking about what's open and closed this long weekend. But
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Speaker 1: we want to know from our guests around the table,
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Speaker 1: what are you gonna get up to this long weekend? Steve,
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Speaker 1: just chill it out.
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Speaker 2: You know. The highlight will probably be my son's marching band,
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Speaker 2: that's Windsor Optimist Youth Band, and they'll participate in the
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Speaker 2: annual Labor Day parade that leaves from the Day's Old
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Speaker 2: Shop at four forty four on Turner Road and goes
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Speaker 2: down to Ottawa Street. And that's a that's a that's
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Speaker 2: a fun parade for the kids and a good chance
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Speaker 2: if you're in the area and want to go check
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Speaker 2: out the amazing musicians and our Windsor Optimist Youth band,
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Speaker 2: then please do that. And otherwise it's going to be
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Speaker 2: uh just a good weekend in THEA. I think you know,
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Speaker 2: no no shirt, no shoes, no service, no problems, So you.
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Speaker 1: Know that sounds that visual important. Nothing wrong with that.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like a really nice week Alicia, how about yourself?
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Speaker 1: What's on tap for the Labor Day weekend?
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Speaker 4: I'll probably keep my shirt on, but well, I have
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Speaker 4: four of us in my house go back to school
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Speaker 4: on Monday, so I've got to in high school this year,
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Speaker 4: one in university, and myself, I'm going back to finish
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Speaker 4: my masters. So we take advantage of all of the
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Speaker 4: summer festivals that happen around this uh this time of
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Speaker 4: year to get everybody celebrating the end of summer. So
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Speaker 4: I'll be at there's one to come see celebrating the
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Speaker 4: end of summer. Tomorrow night, we're doing some fireworks in
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Speaker 4: Lakewood Park and all kinds of good bonfire and stuff.
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Speaker 4: And then the ever popular I grew up in Harrow
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Speaker 4: Harrow Fair is this weekend, so we will be out there.
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Speaker 4: Pie auction was stellar last night. For anybody that missed it,
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Speaker 4: what a shame. So we'll be out there this weekend
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Speaker 4: too with my kids.
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Speaker 1: What the pie go for?
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Speaker 4: There was two pies that sold for ten thousand dollars.
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Speaker 4: It's wild, It is wild. It is cool to watch
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Speaker 4: the coolest stories last year. I don't know if you
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Speaker 4: guys know this hair Affairs in the Guinness Booker World
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Speaker 4: Records highest pie were sold at an auction fifteen thousand dollars,
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Speaker 4: So it is a It is an excellent event to
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Speaker 4: go to. It starts off the hair Afare on a bank,
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Speaker 4: so we always go to watch the pie auction, but
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Speaker 4: then the parade and stuff is.
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Speaker 2: What a fifteen thousand dollars pie tastes like?
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Speaker 4: Right delicious? Everybrite it better.
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Speaker 1: I just hope it's like an apple, or like if
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Speaker 1: it's a mulberry, I'm gonna be a little upset for
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Speaker 1: fifteen grand They got.
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Speaker 4: A lot of different varieties.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you that strawberry Rubert.
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Speaker 4: That was one of the ten thousands. I'll tell you that.
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Speaker 1: There you go, and how about yourself, David.
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Speaker 3: Well, the family is heading to our trailer up in
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Speaker 3: hand Over, and I got a little bit of work
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Speaker 3: to do around the house and yard works, so I'm
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Speaker 3: going to let the family go up there with the
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Speaker 3: grand kid. He's going to be up there with Grandma.
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Speaker 3: And there's about six or seven of them up there.
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Speaker 3: So there was enough room in the van for me,
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Speaker 3: so I thought I'd stay home. So me and the
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Speaker 3: dogs will stay home this weekend and just chill.
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Speaker 1: You're really you've shifted so well into retirement life like
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Speaker 1: that is the laziest grandpa answer I ever.
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Speaker 3: I might get around the golf in We'll see.
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Speaker 1: Well, hey, taking a look here at Windsor, Essex. We
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Speaker 1: know that administrative offices for the city are going to
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Speaker 1: be closed. There was supposed to be a Development and
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Speaker 1: Heritage meeting on Monday, it's moved to Tuesday. Devonshire Mall
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Speaker 1: is open eleven till six the six most grocery stores
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Speaker 1: are open. The beer store is going to be open
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Speaker 1: as well. Closed post offices, banks, government offices, public libraries
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Speaker 1: and most lcbos. Thank you CTV Windsor for being incredibly
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Speaker 1: clear about which l CBOs will be open, most will
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Speaker 1: be closed, which ones won't be You go try them all.
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Speaker 2: Let us know you can tell.
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Speaker 1: Us seven ninety two c KLW. You know it's a
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Speaker 1: laborty weekend, of course, you know it's signifying the end
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Speaker 1: of traditional summer, though not the season itself. Steve, are
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Speaker 1: you a stickler when it comes to like when summer
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Speaker 1: actually ends. This is something that gets under my skin
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Speaker 1: when people go, well, summer's over. It's September. It's like, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: we still got like twenty six days left of this.
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Speaker 2: Oh man, you don't have kids, John. You know, Labor
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Speaker 2: Day happens, kids go back to school, things get back
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Speaker 2: into routine. And my wife I told her us all
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Speaker 2: all the last couple of weeks, like they need to
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Speaker 2: go back so badly. And my kids are older now too.
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Speaker 2: They're in They're going to say an, it's high school. Agree,
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Speaker 2: they're going to grade ten and grade eleven, and they're
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Speaker 2: interes in that tea. I did the same thing we
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Speaker 2: all did teenage lazy mode. I'm gonna sleep until noon.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna play video games still four in the morning.
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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna chat online with my friends all day.
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Speaker 2: And I'm like, man, there is no structure for these kids.
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Speaker 2: Just go back right. Summer's over, vacation's over. Kids, get
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Speaker 2: your backpacks, get your books, let's go.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Is that the same for you, Alicia?
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Speaker 4: Gosh, we need a schedule, oof, we need to like
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Speaker 4: you know, we do that this week. We try to
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Speaker 4: do the wake up a little earlier. And I mean
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Speaker 4: maybe we're at nine thirty by this point, which your
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Speaker 4: two classes in at nine thirty on a school day.
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Speaker 4: So it's going to be a rough transition, but man, yes,
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Speaker 4: we all need it. And I remember when I used
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Speaker 4: to shop for back to school clothes and it was
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Speaker 4: like a nice, cute little sweater and a pair of pants,
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Speaker 4: and absolutely that is not happening anymore. It's shorts and
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Speaker 4: t shirts till like the end of September. So so
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Speaker 4: things have changed in the kind of feel of what
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Speaker 4: sun Parlor area feels like in September. But it is
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Speaker 4: the official end of summer. I agree. When you have kids,
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Speaker 4: it's like you'd make the transition and you're kind of
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Speaker 4: gripping and waiting for it by the end of a
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Speaker 4: summer full of nothing.
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Speaker 1: How about yourself, heyd, is it still summertime?
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Speaker 3: In summer?
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Speaker 1: It's always summer all ye, it's pretty good.
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Speaker 3: My daughter she she's entering law school. She just started
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Speaker 3: a week ago. She's doing the dual JD here in
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Speaker 3: Windsor in the US. So I had to go over
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Speaker 3: to an open house and I think that it was
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Speaker 3: I don't know if it was an open house or
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Speaker 3: make sure you bring your checkbook beating, But other than that,
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's listen, it's great. I mean the summer.
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Speaker 3: There's no real cutoff for me. The cutoff this year,
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Speaker 3: I think is going to be when I can't golf anymore.
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Speaker 3: And I was talking to my cousin who is a
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Speaker 3: really avid golfer, and he only missed one month last
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Speaker 3: year as he went right through the whole winter. So
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Speaker 3: there's a golf course in Chatham that stays open all
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Speaker 3: year round, and as long as there's no stow on
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Speaker 3: the ground, you can play there. So there's really no
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Speaker 3: end of the summer for me, other than I might
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Speaker 3: close the pool up once she gets a little too cold,
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Speaker 3: because I'm in that thing every morning. Once she gets
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Speaker 3: a little too cold, I'm not going in. It.
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Speaker 1: Sounds like such a stressful life. If only we could
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Speaker 1: all deal with those types of stressors. Oh, the pool's
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Speaker 1: too cool, you gotta close it here, you'll get there now,
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Speaker 1: we've got to go golf.
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Speaker 2: I guess it's forty more years for you, John Lee.
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Speaker 1: Gotta work to the end. Hey, it's nine fifteen right now.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick break. When we get back
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Speaker 1: on the other side, we're gonna move into a bit
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Speaker 1: more of some serious conversations than labor day, we have
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Speaker 1: some bait being thrown into the proverbial waters from the
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Speaker 1: opposition leader, Pierre Pauallyev, urging the NDP leader jug Meet
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Speaker 1: Sing to end the deal with the Liberals, throw it
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Speaker 1: in the garbage, kill it and force a fall election.
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Speaker 1: That's the AAM eight hundred newspol question. Should the NDP
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Speaker 1: take the bait force the election? We'll hear from our
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Speaker 1: Friday roundtable guests Steve Irwin, Dave Cassidy and Alisia Higginson
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Speaker 1: right after this break, John Lenkey here on AM eight hundred. Hey,
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Speaker 1: we're back, folks. A little bit of follow up boy
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Speaker 1: there to come in from the commercial break. Why not
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Speaker 1: nine to nineteen We are getting back into our Friday roundtable.
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Speaker 1: Steve Irwin, David Cassidy and Alisia Higginson joining me here
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Speaker 1: in studio. And the AMA eight hundred CKLW newspool question,
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Speaker 1: which you can answer at amate hundred SKW dot com,
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Speaker 1: is should the NDP take Pierre Paulyev's bait force an election?
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Speaker 1: That's not exactly what the question is, but I rephrased
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Speaker 1: it a little bit and it's what we're gonna be
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Speaker 1: asking our roundtable today. You know they've the Liberals and
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Speaker 1: the NDP of the Supply and Confidence Agreement. The NDP says, look,
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Speaker 1: we've gotten a lot out of this. We've gotten pharmacare
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Speaker 1: we've gotten dental care, we've gotten a lunch program for students.
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Speaker 1: We're getting results from it. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: Dug Meat sing is going, this is the worst government
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Speaker 1: that we've ever had in history here justin Trudeau is
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Speaker 1: just in bed with corporate lobbyists and with grocers and
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Speaker 1: the telcoms, and this government needs to go. So Peer
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Speaker 1: Paulyev is saying, hey, then end it right now. Force
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Speaker 1: an election. Of course, Dug Meet Singh has like what
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Speaker 1: two point four million reasons not to force an election
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Speaker 1: right now, becoming eligible for his full pension tax free
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Speaker 1: in February. So Steve will bring your voice in should
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Speaker 1: he take the bait force an election? Will he take
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Speaker 1: the bait enforce the election.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting that you mentioned the pension element, because that
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Speaker 2: that that gets discussed a lot behind the scenes. Right
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Speaker 2: people know when that date is or they reach that
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Speaker 2: it's an eight year threshold if I don't remember correctly,
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Speaker 2: so you know that calculation comes up and not just
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Speaker 2: the leaders, I mean throughout all the caucuses, everybody. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: so let's just keep going until we get to that
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Speaker 2: point and then I'm comfortable. But I mean, if you
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Speaker 2: just look at this completely politically, it just all depends
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Speaker 2: on where you're setting. If you're a Tory supporter, yeah,
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Speaker 2: let's let's eff and go right. You know, he's high
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Speaker 2: in the polls, Peer's doing well, Trudeau's not doing well.
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Speaker 2: They would love to rip the band off and just
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Speaker 2: get out there. Right now. You're the Liberals and you're thinking, Okay,
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Speaker 2: is Trudeau gonna stare? Should it go? It sounds like
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Speaker 2: he's gonna stay. I'm not getting the sense from him
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Speaker 2: that he's wavering on that, but I mean people I
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Speaker 2: taught to that are smarter and more inside than I am.
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Speaker 2: Telling me, like, if he's gonna make a decision to leave,
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Speaker 2: probably got to be by Christmas. So I think they're
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Speaker 2: probably gonna drag that out and see what happens there,
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Speaker 2: and by the new year you'll know is it going
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Speaker 2: to be justin trudeau Liberal campaign or is it gonna
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Speaker 2: be nobody else? And then they put some new Democrats
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Speaker 2: in this awkward position where you know, I heard Brian
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Speaker 2: Massey on the radio this morning on this clip, And
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Speaker 2: I get what Brian's saying, right that the dental program
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Speaker 2: is really important to the new Democrats. They'd like to
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Speaker 2: see that go through uh to fruition and actually get
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Speaker 2: implemented and properly. And I and I and I get
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Speaker 2: his point on that. Ideologically absolutely, the NDP itself has
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Speaker 2: to make a big calculation here. And my gosh, do
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Speaker 2: you want to be the party that kind of introduces
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Speaker 2: the Tory government to people that don't want it? Your
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Speaker 2: own supporters may not want that, right, So it may
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Speaker 2: be just as in jug Meat's interest, just to keep
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Speaker 2: keep ragging that puck for a little while longer and
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Speaker 2: see where it goes, right. And uh, you know the
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Speaker 2: one thing I'll think I'll say is, you know people
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Speaker 2: talk about justin Trude, whether you should step down or not.
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Speaker 2: Who's having that conversation about jug Meat's saying he's been
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Speaker 2: there a while now, like he hasn't to me, he
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Speaker 2: hasn't picked up that that popularity that's going to propel
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Speaker 2: him right in the next election. So I'm interested to
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Speaker 2: see where those conversations might go in the next few
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Speaker 2: months as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that the NDP have probably reached their
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Speaker 1: already reach their high water mark under this leadership right now.
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Speaker 1: I can't see them changing things to get more support.
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Speaker 1: And then on the flip side, I think the question
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Speaker 1: with Justin Trudeau is how low can support actually go
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Speaker 1: with him? Like, what the what's the actual floor? Because
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Speaker 1: those numbers do keep going down.
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Speaker 2: And is this the bottom end? Does the econogy improve
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Speaker 2: and then suddenly you're in a better position to go
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Speaker 2: to the polls six months from now?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't think anyone's going to be looking
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Speaker 1: to actually in earnest have an election, or call an election,
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Speaker 1: or begin to campaign until we know who the US
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Speaker 1: president is, absolutely meaning so at least there won't be
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Speaker 1: talking about this until November the sixth.
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Speaker 2: That would be a strong guest too. And I can't
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Speaker 2: see them having parallel campaigns.
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Speaker 1: I think that would be a difficult for voter because
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Speaker 1: with the Canadian media would just be covered in the
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Speaker 1: US election.
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Speaker 2: There would be so much Trump Harris coverage that it
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Speaker 2: would just drown out anything on the Canadian campaign trail.
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Speaker 1: Right, Alicia, should he take the bait? Should he force
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Speaker 1: the election?
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Speaker 4: You know, I read that letter and it seemed to
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Speaker 4: me like a deeply unseerious letter to send from somebody
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Speaker 4: who wants to be leader of a country.
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Speaker 1: How could you say that it's a letter that included
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Speaker 1: the word sellout Sing in it.
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Speaker 4: It seems like the kind of letter I would write
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Speaker 4: to people in high school and leave it in their
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Speaker 4: locker when I didn't want to approach them in the
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Speaker 4: all way. So to me, if we're leading into an
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Speaker 4: election with that kind of of sentiment, I think Sing
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Speaker 4: does have all the the questions in his mind that's
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Speaker 4: deep brought up. But also elections are expensive, and what
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Speaker 4: does everybody's war chest look like? And I don't mean
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Speaker 4: expensive just in terms of money, although I do absolutely
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Speaker 4: mean that. I also mean in terms of supporters and volunteers.
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Speaker 4: And when you're looking at what it costs in all
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Speaker 4: senses to run an election, you have to have all
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Speaker 4: of that lined up before you are willing to pull
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Speaker 4: that plug. I think maybe believes that he has those
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Speaker 4: in his CBC party. You have to believe, hopefully that
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Speaker 4: the Liberals being in power this long but also shored
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Speaker 4: up their own factions in that kind of way. And
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Speaker 4: so I guess we're looking at the NDP to see
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Speaker 4: whether they have that. But I don't think this is
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Speaker 4: the way that you call a serious election. When you're
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Speaker 4: talking about something as serious as an election question about
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Speaker 4: the economy, I think you do it thoughtfully and by
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Speaker 4: the people. And I don't know what the future will hold,
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Speaker 4: but there's probably a lot of mechanations in the background
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Speaker 4: beyond what we know on this panel that are making
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Speaker 4: those decisions.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting when you talk about like how
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Speaker 1: much it costs to run an election, not just the
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Speaker 1: actual money, but like the support, volunteers, the apparatus. We
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Speaker 1: see that with this by election that's coming up right
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Speaker 1: now in Montreal. The Liberal Party just they haven't lost staff,
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Speaker 1: but fifty political staffers have said we're not going to
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Speaker 1: take part in this election and any part is on
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Speaker 1: activity whatsoever because of the liberals lack of support Palestinians
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Speaker 1: or over support for Israel. I'm not sure, because both
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Speaker 1: of those statements don't really run with what the actual
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Speaker 1: situation on the ground is. Quite frankly, the Liberals are
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Speaker 1: overwhelmingly supportive from what I've seen, but regardless, when you
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Speaker 1: lose fifty staff, they've said, you can't run this election
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Speaker 1: without the fifty of us. You can you can go
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Speaker 1: find more donors, sure, but you can't find fifty volunteers
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Speaker 1: who know what they're doing and are able to execute
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Speaker 1: it in X amount of days. You lose everything. It's tough, David.
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Speaker 1: I wonder what you think should Jack meet saying take
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Speaker 1: this bait from Pierre Paul because that's all it is, right,
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Speaker 1: it's just bait.
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Speaker 3: Well, listen, twenty nineteen we had an election, right, twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty one we had an election which I didn't think
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Speaker 3: should have happened. Then, you know, I mean, I think
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Speaker 3: the Libs gained about four or five seats. Conservative state
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Speaker 3: status quo NDP. I think game two. But the reality is,
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Speaker 3: you know, do we really need an election? The fact
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Speaker 3: the matter are Brian Brian articulated very well. Uh when
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Speaker 3: I listened to him on AMATE hundred uh today, I
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Speaker 3: think it was today yesterday, And and you know that
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Speaker 3: that we're quite done yet. But when you look at
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Speaker 3: the parties, the Liberals feel that that was their mandate
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Speaker 3: as well to do the same thing. So for him
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Speaker 3: to call an election and cost the taxpayers money as well,
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Speaker 3: and and and I don't know if every party is
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Speaker 3: financially set for it. But I can tell you anything
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Speaker 3: that he does as a federal Conservative, I am against.
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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you why, because this is the same
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Speaker 3: guy in Windsor, Essex County that we would not have
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Speaker 3: had a battery plant because he calls it corporate welfare.
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Speaker 3: He doesn't think that anybody should be supporting any type
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Speaker 3: of program whatsoever. And if it wasn't for the Liberals
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Speaker 3: and the provincial Conservatives, would not have the battery plant
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Speaker 3: going over there today, you know, instead of looking at
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Speaker 3: it as a return on investment, it was nothing but
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Speaker 3: corporate well, and he has he's been very clear about
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Speaker 3: things like that. So anything that that comes out of
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Speaker 3: that man's mouth I have a problem with. So when
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Speaker 3: he throws these pews out there to dissolve the government
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Speaker 3: and the non confidence vote, et cetera, it just makes
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Speaker 3: me crazy. So anyways, I don't think that we should
17:15
Speaker 3: be doing this. There is as you said, this year,
17:19
Speaker 3: we're going to have well we have across the ditch,
17:22
Speaker 3: we got the you know, the the election going on
17:25
Speaker 3: over there, and that that's a I think it's on
17:27
Speaker 3: everybody's mind. And then potentially there could be something provincially
17:33
Speaker 3: as well. So one of the things I would love
17:36
Speaker 3: to see maybe change in John, maybe you can help
17:38
Speaker 3: me out here, is why can't we have these terms
17:42
Speaker 3: and instead of every well in a year, we can
17:45
Speaker 3: just turn it over. Brian Massey's been in how many years?
17:48
Speaker 3: Have been in? Seventeen eighteen? I don't know, he's been
17:49
Speaker 3: there forever? And how man laction do you think the
17:52
Speaker 3: guy's been in when if there was like the like
17:54
Speaker 3: the province, it would be every four years we're having
17:57
Speaker 3: an election, correct, but federally they can what every time
18:01
Speaker 3: that there's a non confidence Oh, we're going to the polls.
18:04
Speaker 2: So.
18:06
Speaker 1: Reasonable people can disagree about reasonable things. I like the
18:10
Speaker 1: fluid nature of our parliamentary system. I don't know if
18:12
Speaker 1: a fixed date actually is the best thing, but hey
18:14
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19:14
Speaker 1: We have Steve Erwin, David Cassady and Alicia Higginson joining
19:17
Speaker 1: me around the table here. And the City of Windsor
19:20
Speaker 1: and the Ontario government are still trying to tackle the
19:23
Speaker 1: growing homeless population. This year, the city reported seven hundred
19:26
Speaker 1: households experiencing some form of homelessness across Windsor, Essex and
19:33
Speaker 1: downtown Word three Councilor Ronaldo Augustino says, we have to
19:36
Speaker 1: figure out a better way because whatever we've been trying,
19:40
Speaker 1: clearly it's not working. And the city is looking to
19:44
Speaker 1: the H four hub, the Homelessness and Housing Help Hub,
19:47
Speaker 1: which is going to be constructed by twenty twenty eight.
19:50
Speaker 1: There's already the temporary one which is set up at
19:53
Speaker 1: water World, and Mary Dilkins actually says, so the province
19:56
Speaker 1: introduced this heart hub when they closed the application process
20:00
Speaker 1: for the consumption and Treatment sites. Mayor Dilkins says that
20:03
Speaker 1: the H four is a mouthful to say. We rather
20:07
Speaker 1: say the Heart Hub. I don't know. H four is
20:10
Speaker 1: two letters. That's pretty easy for me. H four, But
20:12
Speaker 1: I guess go, if we're gonna go to the Heart hub,
20:14
Speaker 1: now it's the H two. So H four to H
20:17
Speaker 1: two that seems like it's the same mouthful, two letters
20:19
Speaker 1: in a row. But I digress. We're not going to
20:21
Speaker 1: have a conversation here about acronyms. Steve, you know, listen,
20:26
Speaker 1: this this homelessness issue is a serious one. The compounded
20:30
Speaker 1: effects from homelessness obviously impact the hospital system where people
20:33
Speaker 1: are needing to access health services. I wonder what you
20:39
Speaker 1: think needs to be done should be done. Do you
20:41
Speaker 1: think we're on the right track when it comes to
20:42
Speaker 1: addressing this growing issue?
20:44
Speaker 2: You know, I think I think we need creative solutions.
20:46
Speaker 2: And the counselor is right. I mean, this is an
20:49
Speaker 2: ongoing problem. It hasn't seemed to get any better over
20:52
Speaker 2: the years. I used to sit on the board of
20:53
Speaker 2: the Downtown Mission a few years ago, and there were
20:56
Speaker 2: different ideas that were thrown around, and nothing seemed to
20:59
Speaker 2: be happy the impact that we all kind of desire
21:02
Speaker 2: from this. So and I talk about creative solutions, I mean,
21:06
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's given given people that that help
21:08
Speaker 2: where they need it. You know, Win's Regil Hospital and
21:10
Speaker 2: and When's the Police Service has the Nurse Police Team.
21:13
Speaker 2: Hotel Do has something similar called the Call was called
21:16
Speaker 2: the oh my gosh, it was called the Coast program,
21:17
Speaker 2: and sorry, Nicole, I can't remember the name of it now.
21:21
Speaker 2: But but the two two excellent kind of projects that
21:24
Speaker 2: were initiated by the hospitals with collaboration with police, getting
21:27
Speaker 2: to individuals on the street, given them the help that
21:30
Speaker 2: they need to kind of avoid those ZR visits. Those
21:32
Speaker 2: are the kind of creative solutions that I think we
21:34
Speaker 2: need more of.
21:35
Speaker 4: Right.
21:35
Speaker 2: That was a great collaboration with some of some really
21:38
Speaker 2: good people at both organizations and in our case with
21:42
Speaker 2: Win's the region and our mental health staff, our emergency
21:44
Speaker 2: department staff are amazing nurses that go out there on
21:47
Speaker 2: the streets, and that's a that's not a difficult that's
21:49
Speaker 2: that's a very difficult and challenging job to go out
21:52
Speaker 2: with a police team. You've got your your your flack
21:55
Speaker 2: jackets on and everything. You're protected because you don't know
21:57
Speaker 2: what you're walking into. And God bless them. I mean,
22:00
Speaker 2: they're out there doing amazing work and we're seeing some
22:04
Speaker 2: results from that. So it's those kind of creative opportunities.
22:06
Speaker 2: And outside the box is such a cliche. I think
22:09
Speaker 2: we're beyond the box at this point, you know, but
22:12
Speaker 2: you know clearly what we've been doing for the last
22:15
Speaker 2: twenty years isn't having the impact we want. So it
22:18
Speaker 2: needs to be fresh ideas like that. So I'm you know,
22:20
Speaker 2: I'll be the person I'll say I'm optimistic about heart
22:23
Speaker 2: Hub and see what I can come up with us Again,
22:25
Speaker 2: some good people, some good thought behind it. Let's see
22:28
Speaker 2: how it gets implemented and see what kind of impact
22:30
Speaker 2: it might have.
22:31
Speaker 1: Alicia, Obviously, homelessness is not something that's isolated to winsor
22:35
Speaker 1: All communities are facing issues with it and it's increasing.
22:38
Speaker 1: I want to read you just one quote here based
22:40
Speaker 1: on first ten experiences. There's a gentleman named Kyle who's
22:43
Speaker 1: in this article here that CTV put out. Kyle says
22:46
Speaker 1: that current shelters are unsafe. He says he hopes that
22:49
Speaker 1: new investments in the community could one day help people
22:51
Speaker 1: like him. His quote, We're just trying to live like
22:55
Speaker 1: everybody else.
22:57
Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad you brought that up, because I think
22:58
Speaker 4: it is not just a city Wins a problem. You're
23:02
Speaker 4: seeing it in other municipalities too. To come see is
23:04
Speaker 4: not immune. I think there's some invisible homelessness out there
23:10
Speaker 4: that I think really does impact everybody around and it's
23:13
Speaker 4: up to all of us to take the responsibility. Steve,
23:17
Speaker 4: I'm glad you brought up mental health because I think
23:20
Speaker 4: that is an important component to quote unquote solving homelessness. Listen,
23:25
Speaker 4: if the three of us, four of us in this
23:27
Speaker 4: room come up with a solve for homelessness in this
23:29
Speaker 4: twenty minutes, they should pa US more money. But the
23:33
Speaker 4: truth is that it's complex and it's housing first needs
23:39
Speaker 4: to be the solution. But that is proving to be
23:42
Speaker 4: an incredibly complex issue, and who's responsible for that for
23:47
Speaker 4: that issue. The federal government is changing policy and putting
23:50
Speaker 4: money towards it. Provincial government is doing the same thing.
23:52
Speaker 4: Municipalities are not builders, but we unlock the ability for
23:57
Speaker 4: developers to be able to build homes intercomsy. We just
24:02
Speaker 4: we had our first inaugural meeting actually of our Housing
24:05
Speaker 4: Action Plan Advisory Panel, where we kind of gathered local
24:09
Speaker 4: experts together and we're really trying to learn from them
24:13
Speaker 4: about what's actually happening on the ground and what sorts
24:15
Speaker 4: of things we can do. I come from municipality where
24:17
Speaker 4: eighty one percent of the housing stock is a single
24:18
Speaker 4: family home, in a municipality where a thousand people a
24:22
Speaker 4: month are new people are moving here, and we just
24:26
Speaker 4: haven't kept up with inflation and there's no way we
24:28
Speaker 4: can afford. I think the stat is what that they
24:31
Speaker 4: average home in this region is six hundred thousand dollars.
24:38
Speaker 4: The solutions to that are not easy and they're not quick,
24:41
Speaker 4: which is some of the trouble. But we do have
24:44
Speaker 4: to provide the opportunity for there to be a different
24:48
Speaker 4: housing stock, affordable housing stock, attainable housing stock, and we
24:53
Speaker 4: have to get people stabily in those homes with the
24:55
Speaker 4: wrap around supports that they need in the community. I
24:58
Speaker 4: think that is the quote unquote so to it. But
25:01
Speaker 4: it doesn't just rest at the feet of people experiencing homelessness.
25:03
Speaker 4: It's all of us. And when you take it in
25:07
Speaker 4: those kind of broad context you realize that it is
25:10
Speaker 4: kind of a really slow moving vehicle at a time
25:12
Speaker 4: when we need quick paces. So I'm grateful to see
25:16
Speaker 4: solutions like what Steve said, so that we can kind
25:20
Speaker 4: of keep those building blocks going as we as we
25:23
Speaker 4: can make some of the bigger changes.
25:24
Speaker 1: So this is what I get frustrated with, like when
25:26
Speaker 1: government wants to move fast. And this is not at
25:28
Speaker 1: all the criticism, but you and I completely recognize that
25:30
Speaker 1: the city has the least that can actually impact this
25:34
Speaker 1: other than the unlocking of the lands, as you said,
25:36
Speaker 1: But like when government wants to move fast, government can
25:38
Speaker 1: move fast. We saw that happen during COVID. Things changed
25:41
Speaker 1: completely overnight, checks were written, processes were destroyed, new ones
25:46
Speaker 1: were implemented. We're dealing with the outcomes of that right now,
25:49
Speaker 1: with investigations and trying to figure out if every dollar
25:51
Speaker 1: was spent right and evidently not in some cases. But
25:55
Speaker 1: I mean it you say it's complex to me, the
25:57
Speaker 1: answer as well, just build build they'll build, build more homes,
26:00
Speaker 1: build tiny homes, figure out a way to get people
26:02
Speaker 1: off streets into a place where they can live, and
26:05
Speaker 1: then figure out what the next step after that is.
26:08
Speaker 1: But I recognize that there are budgets and there needs
26:12
Speaker 1: to be transparency and making sure that there aren't developers
26:15
Speaker 1: running off with big pools of money because somebody didn't
26:18
Speaker 1: take a look and notice that there aren't actually garages
26:20
Speaker 1: that are being built on all of these homes and
26:23
Speaker 1: when they were supposed to be and it wasn't account for.
26:24
Speaker 1: I mean, there's lots of reasons why things can't happen overnight,
26:26
Speaker 1: but it just it gets frustrating for the average person
26:29
Speaker 1: to go like, why can't we just build? Well?
26:31
Speaker 4: And I recognize that, and I think that everybody hates
26:33
Speaker 4: red tape only I think part of the reason that
26:36
Speaker 4: red tape becomes the way that it is is because
26:37
Speaker 4: at one point decisions were made that hurt someone so
26:42
Speaker 4: I mean, we have building codes because there were places
26:45
Speaker 4: built that were unsafe for people. Did they get out
26:47
Speaker 4: of hand? Yeah, and we need to claw those back,
26:49
Speaker 4: But it's the ability to how do you close those back?
26:51
Speaker 4: We have an AODA, We have all these things that
26:54
Speaker 4: we have to actually if we're thinking about housing people,
26:57
Speaker 4: we have to actually think about the housing that they
26:59
Speaker 4: need and they deserve. And whose responsibility is that It
27:04
Speaker 4: often lass rests on the developer. And frankly, the developer
27:06
Speaker 4: needs to make money because they're borrowing money from the
27:08
Speaker 4: bank and they need to pay that back. And so
27:11
Speaker 4: I don't begrudge them the need for them to present
27:15
Speaker 4: a good business plan. Only all the components have to
27:19
Speaker 4: fit together so that that they can actually present a
27:23
Speaker 4: good business plan. To be able to do that, that
27:25
Speaker 4: becomes more difficult the more red tape you put on it.
27:27
Speaker 1: Well, you know, listen, there's a reason for red tape.
27:30
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. My dad always said, before you go
27:32
Speaker 1: tearing down the fence, you should probably go ask someone
27:34
Speaker 1: why the fence was built in the first place. You
27:36
Speaker 1: might not see the reason for it, but who knows.
27:38
Speaker 1: Maybe in the middle of the night there's a bunch
27:40
Speaker 1: of wolves that show up and if you get rid
27:41
Speaker 1: of the fence, they're all just going to wander ound
27:43
Speaker 1: of the property and eat the kids. You know, that's
27:45
Speaker 1: the extreme. That would be more of what my mom
27:47
Speaker 1: might think, you know, just the worst case. But hey, David,
27:51
Speaker 1: what do you think about this one? I mean, like
27:52
Speaker 1: the homelessness issue, it is one that affects all of
27:54
Speaker 1: us here in our community.
27:55
Speaker 3: O sure does it's you know, I mean I was
27:58
Speaker 3: happy to see the province notes in the vestment, you know,
28:00
Speaker 3: of four hundred million or just a hundred four undred million.
28:04
Speaker 3: What will that do is scratch the surface, I think,
28:06
Speaker 3: But it's a start. And and you know, when at
28:09
Speaker 3: least says things like the red tape in our in
28:14
Speaker 3: our municipalities, uh, there is way too much red tape.
28:18
Speaker 3: So I believe not just a city Windsors. So we
28:21
Speaker 3: talked about the Cumsie, we talked about Ryley of Essex.
28:24
Speaker 3: I think that there's an opportunity just to get the
28:28
Speaker 3: people up the street to build these facilities, whether you
28:31
Speaker 3: talk about tiny home or whatever, because right now they're everywhere.
28:34
Speaker 3: They're in camps, they're they're in but everybody says not
28:37
Speaker 3: in my backyard right Nobody wants them around them, and
28:40
Speaker 3: it's really sad. I mean when you see people just
28:46
Speaker 3: don't really care about them. I mean, I've been down
28:48
Speaker 3: H four many a times, many at times. I spent
28:51
Speaker 3: a lot of time there. And the program that Steve
28:55
Speaker 3: talked about in the core with the police and the
28:58
Speaker 3: nurses taking care of people to keep them out of
29:03
Speaker 3: the emergency rooms, et cetera, is an amazing program that
29:06
Speaker 3: they've put together. They've done a lot of really good
29:08
Speaker 3: things there. But where do they put them? Do they
29:10
Speaker 3: put them at Glengarry on the corner right now where
29:13
Speaker 3: we have full time police that have just gone in
29:16
Speaker 3: there because of everything that's going on. Do we put
29:18
Speaker 3: them next door to Glengarry where there's good programs, We
29:21
Speaker 3: have counselors, they're actually a trustee that takes care of
29:25
Speaker 3: their finances that come in, so they're headed in the
29:29
Speaker 3: right direction there, but we don't have enough of those
29:31
Speaker 3: facilities for them. And then there's the other group that
29:34
Speaker 3: they just don't want any help whatsoever, which brings it
29:38
Speaker 3: to the whole mental health, you know, and addictions part
29:40
Speaker 3: of it, which I think that still more money needs
29:43
Speaker 3: to go towards that to help us through this whole process.
29:46
Speaker 3: It is a big, massive issue in every city, doesn't
29:52
Speaker 3: matter where you are in whatever country, it's happening, and
29:56
Speaker 3: we have to really get a hold of it. And
29:58
Speaker 3: you know, anybody that puts their mind to it and
30:00
Speaker 3: really focus on the mental health and addictions, I think
30:03
Speaker 3: that's the real start of where it comes from. So
30:07
Speaker 3: hopefully we're making some progress, baby steps. It's not gonna
30:10
Speaker 3: happen overnight. But if we could clean up things like
30:13
Speaker 3: when you drive down here, I take people from out
30:16
Speaker 3: of town just to show them the back of the
30:17
Speaker 3: mission sometimes to see how sad it is, because you know,
30:21
Speaker 3: every time I go around, you know, small things, small things.
30:25
Speaker 3: My daughter every Christmas cooked meals to take to the
30:28
Speaker 3: homeless and takes more and many people do that, many
30:31
Speaker 3: people to do that. Right, we have to really get
30:34
Speaker 3: control this because I mean my heart, I wish I
30:37
Speaker 3: could give everybody handles right and help everybody, but does
30:40
Speaker 3: it really help them. We need to get to the
30:42
Speaker 3: root of it.
30:43
Speaker 1: So it's so tough. I mean, you look at so sad.
30:47
Speaker 1: It's sad. It's tough. I just you know, and again
30:51
Speaker 1: we look for easy solutions. We look for complex solutions.
30:53
Speaker 1: We look for any solution that is in front of us,
30:56
Speaker 1: and right now solutions seemingly are. Not that they're evading us,
31:00
Speaker 1: it's just that the problem is just growing at such
31:03
Speaker 1: a pace that I don't think we're able to keep
31:05
Speaker 1: up with it. It was easier to, you know, go
31:08
Speaker 1: back to your point, David, for some people, I think,
31:10
Speaker 1: to ignore the issue, to look past the issue, to
31:14
Speaker 1: pat themselves on the back and go, well, we're doing
31:16
Speaker 1: as much as we can when it's just you know,
31:18
Speaker 1: a couple people here or there. But when it's your
31:21
Speaker 1: entire downtown core, when it's spreading to other municipalities and
31:24
Speaker 1: it's very visible. When we hear that there are ten
31:27
Speaker 1: homeless encampments that are in the city right now and
31:30
Speaker 1: the city can't do anything about them because of a
31:32
Speaker 1: provincial Superior Court ruling that said you can't get rid
31:35
Speaker 1: of them unless you have enough housing to be able
31:37
Speaker 1: to put those people in. It's tough. And then I mean,
31:39
Speaker 1: I hear you, David talking about Glengary that it blows
31:43
Speaker 1: me away that we're going to have a contingent of
31:45
Speaker 1: two to three police officers at all times inside of
31:49
Speaker 1: our windsor Essex Community Housing Court main building in the
31:52
Speaker 1: downtown corep because police have identified this is the biggest
31:56
Speaker 1: most violent area that we have in the city.
31:59
Speaker 3: This one so forty eight arrests in the last two
32:01
Speaker 3: weeks or something.
32:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was one that was like twenty people arrested
32:04
Speaker 1: because of a forcible confinement.
32:06
Speaker 3: Yeah.
32:06
Speaker 1: I mean, I've had people come up to me on
32:08
Speaker 1: the street who go, hey, John, I know that you're
32:09
Speaker 1: on the radio. I live in the Glengarry House. There's apartments,
32:14
Speaker 1: there's a story that needs to be told there. And
32:16
Speaker 1: I mean, and they're dealing with it. And this is
32:19
Speaker 1: just one component because that's community housing and that's the
32:21
Speaker 1: next step off of being homeless. Right, But if they're
32:24
Speaker 1: going into something like that makes people wonder do I
32:27
Speaker 1: want to apply to it? Because this looks like a
32:29
Speaker 1: pretty dangerous situation.
32:30
Speaker 4: You apply to it, you're one of nine thousand.
32:32
Speaker 1: And then you just have to deal with the fact
32:34
Speaker 1: that that number continues to increase.
32:36
Speaker 3: And by the way, I got to give a shout
32:38
Speaker 3: out to Ronaldo on the downtown because that guy works
32:42
Speaker 3: tirelessly the issues on the downtown. He you know, he's
32:47
Speaker 3: out there, he's front center. I know He's helped me
32:49
Speaker 3: on a few cases, you know, with the housing, and
32:54
Speaker 3: he's amazing. I mean, this is not a it's just
32:58
Speaker 3: I love like I have time for people that put
33:01
Speaker 3: time in and do things like that, not just sit
33:02
Speaker 3: in the chair. And that's one guy that doesn't sit
33:05
Speaker 3: in the chair. In the downtown.
33:06
Speaker 1: You know, Elon Musk is doing those brain chips or whatever.
33:09
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Ronaldo had a USB port like plugged
33:12
Speaker 1: into him, so he just recharges himself and I think
33:14
Speaker 1: he carries around battery packs with him just to make
33:17
Speaker 1: sure he's good to go.
33:18
Speaker 2: Now he's made impression, agreed, David.
33:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Hey, we got to take another break right now.
33:22
Speaker 1: It's nine forty eight. When we get back on the
33:24
Speaker 1: other side, we're going to keep the round table going
33:26
Speaker 1: with Steve Irwin from Windsor Regional Hospital. David Cassidy, former
33:29
Speaker 1: president of UNIFOOR four four four right now just retiree
33:32
Speaker 1: looking forward to swimming and golfing throughout the days. We
33:35
Speaker 1: also have Alicia Higginson joining. Word one counselor for the
33:39
Speaker 1: town is to come see John McKey here on am
33:40
Speaker 1: eatee hundred for back right after this. Hey, we're back
33:44
Speaker 1: John McKey here amid hundred CKLW. We're at a weird
33:47
Speaker 1: point right now where we have just enough time for
33:49
Speaker 1: like one word answers from you guys on this last
33:51
Speaker 1: topic if we still want to get to plugged in.
33:53
Speaker 1: So let's try this. When's the police we're able to
33:55
Speaker 1: recover a stolen vehicle using new technology that they have
33:58
Speaker 1: on one of their cars. They were driving around. This
33:59
Speaker 1: thing has looks like Wally on top of the car,
34:01
Speaker 1: and it's got cameras on it, and the machine went
34:04
Speaker 1: do do do do?
34:04
Speaker 3: Do?
34:04
Speaker 4: Do do do?
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Speaker 1: We found a stolen car. They went into the parking lot,
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Speaker 1: they brought back up, They surrounded the car, They got
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Speaker 1: four people, they were all in the car. They arrested them.
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Speaker 1: All technology recovered a stolen car, Steve, Should we be
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Speaker 1: using more tech to deal with road crimes?
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Speaker 2: Sure? That's a good example of it, right. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I was never a fan of like
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Speaker 2: the speed cameras and things like that. I just felt
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Speaker 2: it was I don't know, to me, it's a better
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Speaker 2: step towards like big Brother stuff and everything. But it
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Speaker 2: looks hey, it's an example where it worked well, right,
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Speaker 2: So I don't know, interesting public debate. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I get freaked out by AI and all the technology
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Speaker 2: that's out there, so I get a little skinnish about
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Speaker 2: any change like that at this point in my life.
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Speaker 1: But fair enough. How about yourself, Alicia.
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Speaker 4: I think you kind of touched on it there at
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Speaker 4: the end. There. AI is coming for us. AI is here,
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Speaker 4: and if you the hope is that people use it responsibly.
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Speaker 4: So there is there's a lot to be said about
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Speaker 4: protecting your own data and protecting your own the things
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Speaker 4: about your own life when you're dealing with things with technology,
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Speaker 4: and so we should probably remind ourselves of that. Every
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Speaker 4: time we click yes to accept all cookies, every time
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Speaker 4: we go to a website, we're doing those those same things.
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Speaker 4: We're using technology in that way, so it's just a
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Speaker 4: little less visible and those sorts of ways a little
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Speaker 4: more visible when we're thinking about things like wallely on
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Speaker 4: top of a car.
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Speaker 1: Okay, And how about yourself, David, I'm good with technology
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Speaker 1: getting it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm going nowhere fast right, yeah, vehicle the
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Speaker 3: I want it back, So if there's technology to get it,
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Speaker 3: why not.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I'm not too concerned about the AI
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Speaker 1: side of things with this or the big brother aspect,
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Speaker 1: like I take calls about this when it comes to
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Speaker 1: red light cameras, and all that I hear from people
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Speaker 1: is just like I want to run red lights. That's
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Speaker 1: that's all that I can hear.
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Speaker 2: I really, I was in a hurry, and like you say, like, oh,
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Speaker 2: I don't.
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Speaker 1: Like the speedcare, I was like, okay, well, I guess
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Speaker 1: Steve rwhen leaves the house late, maybe it needs to
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Speaker 1: get to work right away. But of course I just
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Speaker 1: iest and I digress. We're going to move into our
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Speaker 1: plugged in segment, where we let everyone around the table
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Speaker 1: plug something in that they think needs some attention. Let's
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Speaker 1: start off with you, David.
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Speaker 3: Well, listen, this is a big weekend for labor, and
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Speaker 3: you know, I hope everybody this weekend, as I used
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Speaker 3: to say, keeps the main thing, the main thing, and
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Speaker 3: just enjoys themself this weekend, and for the people that
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Speaker 3: are out there because of the way our world has
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Speaker 3: gone have to work this weekend. We're thinking about you.
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Speaker 3: Some of the people I used to represent it the
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Speaker 3: casino don't get many days off. They're you know, three
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Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five days a year, so thinking about them.
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Speaker 3: So just the people on Labor Day weekend doing what
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Speaker 3: you want to really do. Relax, it's your weekend and
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Speaker 3: enjoy it.
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Speaker 1: And there's the Labor Day Parade on Monday.
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Speaker 3: On Monday, Big Labor Day Parade.
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Speaker 1: It was there a parade last year, yes before yes, okay.
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Speaker 3: So well we had one. Some people didn't want us to,
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Speaker 3: but COVID didn't stop us.
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Speaker 1: There you go. Labor doesn't stop, okay, Alicia, what needs
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Speaker 1: to be plugged in?
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Speaker 4: So into come see this weekend, we're having our end
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Speaker 4: of Summer celebration. So from six thirty till just after dusk,
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Speaker 4: we're doing community bonfire and marshmallow roast and long games
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Speaker 4: and fireworks. And that's going to be at Lakewood Park
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Speaker 4: South and North. So if you're going, you can use
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Speaker 4: the bike vallet. Thank you to Bike windsor Essex for
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Speaker 4: helping us with that, and or you can take the
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Speaker 4: shuttle because parking is going to be tied up there
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Speaker 4: and it'll be nice so you can take a walk.
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Speaker 1: Sounds great, but I will just note this is why
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Speaker 1: people think that summer ends at the end of August,
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Speaker 1: because you've got cities that go around and they hold
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Speaker 1: festivals and proclaim bold things. David, you and I are
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Speaker 1: not going to be falling.
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Speaker 4: It's really nice.
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Speaker 1: It still sounds like it's a great event.
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Speaker 4: It's a really nice thing to tell my kids. Hey,
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Speaker 4: we already had an end of summer celebration. Now you've
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Speaker 4: got to go to school.
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Speaker 1: Nothing you can do. These are facts, Steve, How about
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Speaker 1: yourself when needs to be plugged in?
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Speaker 2: I'll do another quick local music plugs. So my friend's
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Speaker 2: band ghost Note playing their yacht rock set list at
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Speaker 2: River's Edge on August thirty first tomorrow, fun go and
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Speaker 2: get your yacht hat and you're.
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Speaker 3: Playing.
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Speaker 2: No, No, I'm not there. I'm not there yet. Dat
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Speaker 2: I'll let you know when i'm there.
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Speaker 3: All right. I keep watching him. I keep watching them
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Speaker 3: on social media singing in that.
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Speaker 2: So I still doing my open mic nights. And that's
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Speaker 2: the thing too. You're never too old, right Like this
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Speaker 2: band I'm talking about. Those are guys in their fifties,
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Speaker 2: sixty seventies, right, still rocking it out right. I'm in
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Speaker 2: a Tuesday guitar group on a place called in Tune
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Speaker 2: on Ottawa Street Tuesday nights at seven thirty. I think
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Speaker 2: go there and sign up meat people like me, and
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Speaker 2: you just sit there and jam and learn how to
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Speaker 2: play guitar when you're in your fifties and that's awesome.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like we're too young, just do it and life's
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Speaker 2: too short.
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Speaker 1: There you go. Hey, well, I want to thank all
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Speaker 1: of you for joining me today in the studio for
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Speaker 1: this Friday round table. Steverwhen as the director of Public
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Speaker 1: Affairs and Communications at Winds the Regional Hospital, Alicia Higginson
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Speaker 1: is Ward one councilor Town of Tecumpsey. And David Cassidy
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Speaker 1: former president of Unifor four four four and now just
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Speaker 1: one of our region's most prolific golfers. So what does
39:21
Speaker 1: prolific necessarily mean good?
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Speaker 2: Prolifically bad?
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Speaker 1: It's nine fifty eight. We're gonna take a quick break
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Speaker 1: right now. We got the ten o'clock news coming up next.
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