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Newstalk 1010 Jim Richards' The Rundown with Jon Liedtke and Kalvin Reid - April 30, 2024 · Kvetch & Release

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  Welcome back to news Talk tonight with Jim Richards on the iHeartRadio Talk Network.
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  It is the iHeart Talk Radio Network. A couple of things we're going to
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  go in depth on a little bit later on. Many people might be talking
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  about parliamentary decorum. But is it true what Pierre is saying? Is it
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  a wacko policy that's not working? Or did anybody read the articles about why
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  the NDP are actually changing? Would like some changes made to where drug use
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  can be if it is decriminalized. So what is the real story behind the
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  whole conversation that Pierre Pauliev wanted everybody to have earlier today? That is coming
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  up here on the Iheartalk Radio Network. And we're going to go to Montreal
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  and talk a little bit about what we're seeing around North America. That is
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  encampments in support of the people of Gaza. That coming up as well.
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  But first, when will we put an end to this wacko policy by this
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  wacko primes which may or may not be wacko? Let's find out with John
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  Lidkey, who is a radio and podcast host from Windsor. Covetch is the
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  name of his podcast. John, thanks for your time. Thanks for having
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  me. Calvin Reed is with us as well, director of PR for Enterprise
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  Canada and a former journalist. Guys, are you all ready to go?
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  Good to go? Thanks for having me. All right? So, I
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  was, like I've said before, because I didn't think it would happen,
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  But I wonder if this is the beginning of a whole bunch of Pierre pauliev
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  stepping on rakes when in sports, you know, teams would just guard their
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  lead and not try to make any mistake and uh just you know, just
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  march on to the end zone and not try to get too fancy. But
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  I wonder, not that this is a victory lap before you win a victory,
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  but sometimes I wonder, And I'm not sure what people who are voting
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  for Peer Paul because they're sick and tired of Trudeau think about all of this.
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  But if people did not hear he called the prime ministers and also we
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  put an end to this wacko policy by this wacko crime. As he was
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  asked to apologize once did not, and then a second time. I'm going
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  to ask the honorable here the opposition, one last time withdraw that comment and
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  simply withdraw that comment withdraw SPI, I simply withdraw and replace with the aforementioned
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  added. So he was kicked out, and then were the rest of the
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  Conservatives like, oh, rights are getting out of here too, which is
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  non ridiculous any of them who have been there at any point. No,
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  they're not allowed to speak like this. So I think most Canadians who are
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  supporting Pierre Paulyev and would support any Conservative leader from day number one Calvin,
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  don't care. But I just wonder what other Canadians are going to think.
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  Probably still not enough to make them excited about Trudeau, but they're like,
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  this is not what we want. We want to see prime ministerial up until
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  we vote for you. I think your bang on me is this certainly plays
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  to the Conservative base, but that you know, they need more than the
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  Conservative base to form government, And this is the kind of thing that,
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  quite frankly, can turn people off. But it's also just it's an illustration
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  that everything right now at this point in Canadian politics is just theater. And
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  quite frankly, I guess I'm gonna make two quick points on this one.
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  I just buy his name calling at any time, but particularly in politics.
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  Yeah, and This isn't just a conservative thing. All sides of the political
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  spectrum are guilty of this. You know, it is actually amazingly quite possible
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  to critique the policies are posals of a politician or a party without resorting to
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  insults. It can be done, It is possible. But once you had
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  name calling to it just kind of diminishes the argument you're making. And second,
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  I think we're at the point, and I know we're probably a year
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  plus away from it actually happening, but we need an election. This country
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  needs an election. Yeah, we have a political climate that's extremely toxic right
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  now, and I blame all sides for this. This isn't the property of
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  just one party. And the longer this goes on, the more divided into
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  ridiculous, I think it's going to get. So I do believe it happened
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  outside of parliament to Trudeau responded by calling peer Paulyev spineless. So there's some
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  name calling back and forth. It doesn't help, as Calvin just mentioned,
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  but your read on this, John, everyone is playing a game that's working
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  to their bases right now, and they're forgetting about the fact that there's a
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  need for persuadables. But I think everyone's happy to be sort of in a
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  datante until we actually do get to an election period. This is all fundraising
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  politics. And we saw this quite frankly with perquallyev. Immediately almost after walking
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  out of the chamber, they had sent out a fundraising letter saying can you
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  believe this? Look what happened. They knew what they were doing, They
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  know the outrage it's going to provoke amongst the liberals, amongst the media,
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  amongst the chattering class. And I don't like the name calling either, but
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  I think there needs to be a better way to respond to it, knowing
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  that this is a tactic unless the response is just simply to be let's all
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  lie around in the mud right now because we all see it as being beneficial.
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  Yeah, let's move on, I mean, unless anybody else has anything
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  else to say. But I don't want to. That's going to get myself
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  in trouble. But we don't like name calling, so I've decided I will
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  not name call all right. This story developed last night when I was on
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  the air, and when I heard it's just so tragic. A liquor store
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  robbery in Bowmanville twenty minute pursuit, apparently, according to reports, twenty minutes
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  later, so the liquor store is robbed twenty minutes later when a suspect was
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  fleeing entered the four to ZHO one going the wrong direction, causing a pile
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  up which killed an infant, the child's grandparents as well as the suspect in
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  that vehicle. But what is remarkable here usually the SIU and for people outside
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  of Ontario, that is the organization, the government body that would organize and
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  investigate after there is an accident where or if the police are involved in something
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  where that results in death or injury, they will investigate to see the police
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  did nothing wrong, or maybe they did something wrong. But this is a
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  witness. My point is that usually this information doesn't get out, but this
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  is a witness, and there's video to back it up. That imagine you
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  see cars going as fast as you are one hundred and twenty on the high
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  except they're in the lane, the opposite lane where all the cars should be
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  going the other direction way on the slow basicaly driving westbound in the eastbound lanes,
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  probably at a rate of one hundred and sixty one hundred and eighty kilometers.
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  So I was in the left lane doing one hundred and twenty with normal
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  traffic, and it was as if I was parked on the highway when they
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  passed me. The spad was insane, the way they passed me in oncoming
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  traffic during almost rush hour. The Toronto Star has audio of apparent interactions with
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  police officers from Durham Regional Police ten for and Tom said, if we can
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  pass on, I just want to make sure the Durham sargeants a wear that
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  they're driving the office direction. Someone's going to get hurt. So that's pretty
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  remarkable stuff. The witness said that they were weaving in and out. I
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  don't know if there's much to say here, Calvin, other than it's just
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  a tragedy, absolute tragedy. And I can't even imagine what that family is
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  going through. Just terrible. And I mean, I don't I don't want
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  to pre judge an SIU investigation. I I you know, wasn't there was
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  Could I make a knee jerk reaction and say it's probably not wise to,
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  you know, continue to chase onto the wrong bound lanes of a highway.
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  Probably easy from my armchair to make that assessment. But I mean, at
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  the end of the day, this was all about electrocore robbery, and I
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  mean, I don't know if this, you know, kind of points to
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  the way crime just kind of snowballs and nothing good comes of it and then
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  we look at root causes. It's just it's so hard to think about straight
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  at this point in time when it's still relatively fresh, and like, all
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  I can think about is this family that had lost their child and their parents.
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  Apparently a knife used in the theft or robbery. I guess, you
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  know, if you steal from somebody and nobody does anything about it, it's
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  staff. But if somebody uses a weapon, it's robbery. Do you want
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  to go quickly on that? We got to go here, But any thoughts
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  John just absolutely horrendous. My thoughts with the family. Nobody wants to see
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  something like this, and you know, as Calvin just said there, this
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  is over a liquor store robbery and the fact that it had to evolve so
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  quickly to this situation just shouldn't happen. But I can't judge it from their
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  perspective. It's I agree, let the SIU do their investigation. But some
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  of the video that we've seen so far, and that witnesses account is clearly
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  very concerning. It is our Rundown. I'm Jim Richards. This is the
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  iHeart Talk Radio Network. This is news Talk Tonight with Jim Richards on the
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  iHeartRadio Talk Network. Happy to be joined by you. We'll talk to a
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  former police officer who's an expert on what the rules are around pursuits like this
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  again, that tragic story just outside of Toronto where an infant, the infant's
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  grandparents and the dry of the car responsible for the robbery where he got on
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  the four one going the wrong way and four people Now Dad. We'll talk
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  to a police officer about that before this hour is out. I'm Jim Richards
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  and this is our rundown with John Lidkey, who is radio and podcast host
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  in a Windsor and also host of his podcast called Ketch. And also we
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  have Calvin Reid with us. He's the director of PR for Enterprise Canada and
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  a former journalist. Interesting that Christia Friedland intends to ask Parliament to approve proposed
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  changes to the capital gains tax in a standalone bill, a move will that
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  is forced to make the Conservatives take a stand on the capital gains issue.
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  It is absolutely fair to ask those in our country who are at the very
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  top to contribute a little bit more, and that is why we put forward
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  a plan which we are absolutely committed to. So it looked like they had
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  done this increasing capital gains from fifty percent to two thirds to entice the Conservatives
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  into a fight, so they would appear that they're defending the rich. When
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  the Prime Minister and the Liberals could say, listen, we're fighting for the
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  common man. It's tough out there. The Conservatives didn't bite, so now
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  they're isolating it and forcing the Conservatives to be seen to vote against it.
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  I don't know if this is a smart or a desperate move, or maybe
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  all of the above. John, Everything is a wedge. If you wanted
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  to be a wedge, and this is exactly that, and listen, it
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  might work out well. They might be playing off of the fact that the
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  vast majority of the people who they are hoping to vote for them don't really
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  have a cleanar understand exactly what a capital gains tax is, how does it
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  affect people? Who does it directly affect? But it sounds really good to
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  be going after the richest people, and that's what they want to be doing
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  right now. We saw this fight earlier as well, when they wanted to
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  go after big tech, using it as a wedge against the Conservatives to keep
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  the conservatives and the focus is a smart thing in my opinion. We'll see
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  if it works out well for them. I don't know if this is the
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  one. I don't know if it's the one either, because Calvio. What's
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  interesting is they're doubling down on this when the blowback has been Hey, I'm
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  not rich. I'm just hard working guy for thirty years who was able to
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  buy a cottage for seventy twenty five years ago now it's worth four hundred thousand,
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  or doctors who have created businesses where this would be problematic if they wanted
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  to sell it to a younger, upcoming doctor. So all these unintended consequences
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  of this from people to claiming listen, I'm the rich guy you're going after.
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  And I think that's exactly it. We talked to the last segment about
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  political theater, and I think this is just another act in the same play.
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  That's all. This is just on behalf of the liberals. But as
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  you said, like there are people that you know definitively are not wealthy,
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  but they either maybe they had a good inherance, or maybe they have been
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  working hard and they were able to invest in a second property or or you
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  know other things that are going to give them capital gains that you know they
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  were read banking on as part of the retirement or maybe to pass on to
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  their children, and now they're facing this, this prohibitive tax increase. I
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  think it is going to have a unintended consequences. The other part of this
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  is I think there is a vast majority of people out there who aren't politically
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  engaged, who maybe don't know what a capital gains tax are and they don't
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  see impacting them one way or the other, and it's not going to sway
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  their vote. Yeah, I would think that that's probably a lot of people,
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  right, I mean, like, yeah, I think of all of
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  the people who are feeling left behind, who don't know, who will never
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  be able to get enough money to figure out what capital gains are. You're
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  right, Yeah, like capital this this cut sort, this cuts not it's
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  not making taxes any less for anybody else who's already having a hard time making
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  against me it's not addressing that problem. Galen Weston, maybe his biggest mistake
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  was that he was the front of the you know, he was selling no
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  frills and his name is out there to listen. I'm not saying that Lablaws
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  didn't have some problems, bread scandals, millions of dollars from the federal government
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  for refrigeration, But is that you're going back in time to use that as
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  your reason. I only bring that up because I've talked to a million different
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  experts who say that yes, Loblaws is making more of a profit, but
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  that's because there's a huge markup on pharmaceuticals and they own Shopper drug Mart,
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  and because they also have a bank. If you separate that from their business
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  and you're just looking at grocery and a grocery chain, they're no different than
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  any of the other big chains. So tomorrow this boycott lob lozz routine.
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  The founder or the organizer behind it had this to say earlier today on the
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  Iheartalk radio network. The idea has to be sending a message to the retailer
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  that you know, enough is enough and we do not want to be paying
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  exorbitant prices for groceries. Anymore. I mean, we had some documents lead
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  to our sub which indicates a number of very interesting price markups that just really
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  don't make sense, especially for a store like No Frills, where it's supposed
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  to be no fri. Why is there a fifty four percent markup on butter?
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  Well, anybody could have told you that, I mean, fifty four
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  percent markup on butter sounds outrageous until you find out that that, fortunately or
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  unfortunately is just the way the business works, not now but always. Calvin,
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  Yeah, for sure, I quite frankly, and I don't want to
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  be overly cynical about this, but I'll be shocked at this boycott really goes
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  anywhere as any kind of real or lasting impact. I don't see it changing
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  the lab laws business model. I don't really see it changing the business model
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  of any of the big grocery chains. However, it does certainly speak to
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  consumer frustration, and I think a lot of that frustration is justified. But
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  again, like, what are we gonna do. It's food, We have
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  no choice. We have to buy food, we have to eat, so
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  it's Yeah, I don't know. It's going to be interesting to see how
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  this plays out, but I think it's It's just going to be a lot
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  of social media chatter and at the end of the day, the bottom line
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  of the grocery store is not going to be impacted all that much. I
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  already do something crazy, call it a boycott, and I've done it for
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  a long time. I shop in my neighborhood where there are cheaper groceries.
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  I now call me crazy. You don't need to organize boycott or have dumb
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  names like roblise. You just go in your neighborhood where the cheaper groceries are.
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  Email me if you'd like, and I'll give you full details on shop
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  where cheaper groceries are. What about you, John, Yeah, you know,
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  I agree very much with all the sentiments heard here. Lewis it's a
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  boycott. It's not going to catch on because people are going to have to
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  go to the place that's the most convenient for them. I understand consumer frustration
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  and sentiment, and it's easy to put it where the easiest avenue looks like
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  water will always roll downhill. But the fact of the matter is here there
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  are a lot of other avenues where your dollar is not going where it should
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  be going. As much as it should be rather than the grocery store for
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  so many various reasons. But hey, to each their own, and it's
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  better than the one thing that I saw going around social media, which was
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  actually steal from Blah Blah's day. So I say, go for the boycott.
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  Don't go engaging in the criminal activity. Well unless, yeah, don't
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  do that. That is good point because none of us want to be sued.
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  Nobody wants to say. I heard the guy on the iHeart Talk network
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  say it, so yeah, do not steal, but all against it.
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  Yeah, I'm just guessing somebody's dumb enough to steal from one of these places
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  and then post it on their own social media. That's all I'm saying.
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  And finally, guys, I'm going to throw something at you that we I
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  don't think we passed by you, but I know the coach of the Tampa
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  Bay Lightning is getting a bit of a hard time for suggesting that the refs
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  were a little too hard and what do we need to wear skirts? It's
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  like prison rules in the playoffs, but it's not prison rules for the goalie.
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  Like the second something happens, you know, like we might as well
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  put skirts on on the I like this is like, oh, you can't
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  say anything anymore. I wouldn't say that, I bet you if he asked
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  you asked him to choose his words differently. Now that we're doing a victory
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  lap for women's sports and how successful the women's hockey league is right now,
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  I bet he would be like, yeah, I shouldn't have said it like
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  that, Calvin, Yeah, for sure. I mean, given the especially
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  the space that hockey's in right now, and then some of the issues that
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  it's been been navigating in this space, and as you had mentioned, with
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  the growth of the women's game, where it is and how it is is
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  literally opening the game to holding the audiences and helping it grow its larger footprint
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  on the efforts and the blood, sweat and tears of women in the game.
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  Not not good comments and absolutely could have been chosen better. I'm a
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  hockey lifer. I love the sport, I always will. But he can't
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  defend commentary like that from some of the people, and I think with sober
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  second thought, he would be more than happy to retract that. Calvin Raid,
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  director of pr AT Enterprise, and John Licky, thank you very much
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  for your time. When we come back we'll talk to a police officer about
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  that tragic police chase yesterday