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News Talk Tonight is on with your host Jim Richards on the iHeartRadio Talk Network.
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Well done, everyone, thank you very much for your time time to
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take a look at the big news stories of the day. We're joined by
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John Lidke, who is a radio and podcast host in Windsor. John,
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thank you very much for your time. Thank you for having me. And
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also Calvin Reid is director of PR at Enterprise Canada, also a former journalist.
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John, thank you very much for your time as well. Thanks to
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be here. I'm not sure if there's much to say about this story out
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of Baltimore, which is very sad, but this audio is pretty heartbreaking.
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One of you guys on the south side, one of you guys on the
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north side, hold all traffic on the Key Bridge. There's a ship approaching
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has just lost their steering, so they get that under control. We got
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stop all traffic. Take take this beast. The whole bridge just found down.
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Start starts, whoever, everybody, the whole bridge just elapsed. Well,
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this match is direct, that's correct. First time, do you know
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wall traffic south? I can't get to the other side where the bridge is
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down. There is still a search and I don't know if it's so much
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of a rescue. And now, to be honest with you, we'll talk
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to a navy sealed diver a little bit later on the show who has done
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some diving on tragic stories like this. Heartbreaking that six people are still missing.
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And I'm not sure what to what to say about does Calvin, other
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than it is a tragedy, but also when you look at the financial aspects
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of it, that is a very very important port which now has its access
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in and out, uh, you know, tied up. Yeah, and
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you use the word that I put this is an absolute tragedy. I mean,
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I don't think we can take so almost in the fact that this was
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truly an accident and not some some active aggression, but a tragedy none the
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less. I don't know if you've seen a video, but it is just
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terrifying to see and and yeah, I mean the loss of human life and
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then there's going to be long term impacts from this as well. As you
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mentioned, it's a it's a main access point, if I'm not mistaken,
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an interstate. That bridge carried an interstate over the river. That's a that's
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a main artery of commerce. It's a main artery of people getting to and
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from work of I'm sure visitors to Baltimore and Maryland. It's going to take
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a long long time, I think to get over this one. What about
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you, John, This was a horrific I woke up this morning and you
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know, try to put together the stories for the day, think it's going
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to be about the budget, and you don't expect to see something this horrific.
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And you know, it seems that everything that could have went wrong did
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go wrong, but also everything that could have went right did go right.
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This happened at you know, in the middle of the night, there was
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the ability for the may day to go out and for the bridge to be
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shut down. So you know, it was it was a terrible situation,
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but it could have been so much worse. Yeah, I mean, there's
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so much about this story that is you know, tragic, tragic, but
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yet interesting. I mean, they say it takes a mile to stop one
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of those things, so you're almost damned from the beginning as soon as they
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had some problems. But we'll continue to follow that. And we've got a
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structural engineer and a former Navy seal who's done diving on all sorts of tragedies
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on how it would have played out in the immediate hours afterwards, that in
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an hour here on News Talk Tonight for CTV News, Thomas Mulcair wrights just
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give it time and Pierre Pouliev's stances can turn on a dime. I don't
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know a lot of people think that that kind of stuff is a gotcha moment,
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But I always think that if there is new information, I think most
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Canadians would expect and appreciate that political leaders can change stances on certain things.
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And certainly it's interesting, though Calvin, that we have not seen this conservative
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leader win the nomination and then move to the middle as many have in the
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past. And whether or not they like him for that or they just like
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that he's not just in Trudeau. He's doing a lot that people like.
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Yeah, that's for sure. I mean these comments from mister maulcare, I
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mean that's part is in politics that it's finest right and it's all spinning.
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It's coming from the left hand, the right, to be honest, I
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don't put too much credence in what mister Maulcair was criticizing. Form sure,
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there's a lot that can criticize mister Paulieff for I honestly don't think this is
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one of them. As you said, they're a changing circumstance aces and and
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you know, situation is going to change. His time evolves, and hopefully
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people's stances do change on issues is they may become more informers, they learn
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more as the information services. But that comment you made about moving over to
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the center is very very interesting. It'd be very interested to see where where
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mister Poff campaigns from when an election actually is underway. The Center has been
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vacant in Canada for a long long time. Mister O'Toole when he was leader
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of the Conservative Party is probably the closest we've had to somebody who was trying
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to occupy that space and and it didn't quite work out for him. Paulv's
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going to be up against a master campaigner in Justin Trudeau, so it will
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be very very interesting to see how Paul Hav's pre election stances play in an
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actual rit period when more people are paying attention. I think that's very interesting
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that the center has been vacated and I'm not sure that anybody is in a
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rush to take it over. John, Yeah, I got to agree.
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With that, and that's what's lead a lot of people, I think upset,
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feeling like that their parties have run away from them, or that they
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can't find a space where they feel welcome into right now. But pauliev,
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let's be honest, like we're looking at him if it was held what today
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or tomorrow, having either a ten to thirty five seat majority, which is
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unbelievable, and I think that it is representing a feeling that a lot of
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people have that you know, quite frankly, he's people are angry, and
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he mirrors that back towards them, but he also harkens back to a memory
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of Hey, Canada, wasn't that bad ago a couple years ago? What's
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changed? And you know, I don't go putting everything at the Prime Minister's
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feet. That's not fair. We've had global situations that have been unbelievable,
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but he's going to, unfortunately wear it and that's just how things are,
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and it is useful for this conservative leader to be able to entiate himself by
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that. It's interesting that leaders from Greece are angry with our prime minister,
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and maybe rightfully so, maybe Canada should be angry with them as well.
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For well, for this specifically, folks, Greece would of course be interested
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in purchasing Canada's liquified natural gas. If the resource could be made available to
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the Mediterranean countries, it would be a huge success. But this Prime Minister
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is not interested because he doesn't want to contribute to a carbon footprint that he
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doesn't see as the way forward for us and being a green country. I
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don't know, I think that's pretty disappointing, Calvin. I would tend to
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agree with you, lique financial gas does happen to be a fossil fuel,
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maybe not as dirty as some of the other ones that we've used in the
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past, but a fossil fuel nonetheless. Obviously, this Prime Minister and this
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Liberal Party in particular would put themselves in a pretty precare a situation if they
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wholeheartedly agreed to what Greece would would want to see happen. But even just
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beyond the energy aspects of it, I mean, I think Canada's got a
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responsibility here to to do something, and to do something rather significant. I
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mean, we are literally talking about our allies in Europe, A lot of
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allies in Europe, people who have stood by acid, who we have stood
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by in the past, and they're facing a power crisis, They've got an
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energy crisis, and you know, because of the war in Ukraine has disrupted
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a lot of electricity creation and generation. Russia has been hoarding a lot of
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resources as you know, part of their role in this. I think we
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have a role on the global stage to play, but we also know that
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that you know, international affairs haven't necessarily been the strongest suit of this government.
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It is heartbreaking to see that. I get it. I get the
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reason why he doesn't want to go down that road. But when you see
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all of the different checkmates along here, that would be very helpful in Europe
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right now, John, it's hard to get your head around. Yeah,
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this this is a tough one. I mean, it's the same situation as
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a carbon tax domestically. Here. The easy answer is, you know,
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take it off while people are in a tough situation right now. But he's
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looking at how does it work electorally, and this is the same situation playing
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out, and of course it's about energy politics. I personally take the viewpoint
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that if we're looking at an ally, if we're looking at allies who quite
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frankly need access to you know, cheaper energy, and we know that we
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have an aggressor who is able to take advantage of this situation through multiple different
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ways, multiple aggressors. Quite frankly, I think a suspension of domestic politics
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is something that should be considered and looked at, maybe discussed by government publicly.
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But we're not seeing anything like that. It seems they're intractable and that
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makes for a very difficult situation. I would agree. Let's come back more
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of the run down, and before we get out of here this hour,
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our economist friend mosh Lander will be here to talk about a difficult situation Canada
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finds itself in with productivity and building our way out of this economic crisis,
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the affordability crisis. That's next on the Iheartalk Radio Network. Welcome back to
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news Talk Tonight with Jim Richards on the iHeartRadio Talk Network. What was that,
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Tony? Tony just made a remark about people punching each other in a
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face? Can you not let that go? I once interviewed a guy that
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Tony worked really hard to get and I said to him, how many of
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your fellow pundits who are in the same line of work as you do you
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want to punch in the face, because at the time I thought one person
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was really annoying, but now I don't, and that guest has never come
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on since I asked him what other people in his industry did you want to
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punch in the face? And now Tony will not let it go. Okay,
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let's get back to the rundown, which is our conversation about the big
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news stories of the day. Calvin Reid any other PR directors you would like
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to punch in the face? Calvin is from Enterprise. No, no,
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I was gonna get a kind of tug and cheek with somebody else you've had
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on. Who's really Oh Murdoch? You want to punch Murdoch in the face?
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Stephen Murdoch? Is that what you're saying? Will relay that to him.
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John Lidkey is a radio host and podcast from Windsor, Ontario. Who
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do you want to punch in the face? And Windsor, Ontario? Yeah,
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John, Ricky, what what radio show host would you like to punch
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in the face? All right, if it's going to be me, uh,
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we're just gonna we're gonna glide right over that. It's great, all
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right, we'll do that a little bit later on. Okay, let's get
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back into it here. There has been a case. In February of last
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year, a Montreal law firm filed the class action lawsuit application against a gentleman
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by the name of Robert Miller, who is a Montreal billionaire, alleging that
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he paid dozens of underage girls cash and gifts in exchange for sex. But
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a judge said, by leaving the office of this individual with fifty thousand dollars,
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a woman implicitly agreed to a settlement and her case against the billionaire is
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essentially tossed out. Would one. I don't know why, you know,
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why you wouldn't agree with that. I'm not saying you, guys, but
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it sounds like by doing that, she then, you know, went and
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tried to file a class action lawsuit, which maybe was probably the smart thing
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to do. But maybe taking the money you should have known that that might
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exclude you from moving forward in the future. Calvin thoughts, Yeah, I
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also understand that she did have a document with her as well that basically outlined
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that it was unsigned. She was supposed to have a review by her lawyer,
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but a document nonetheless, it's so hard on such a situations like this
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in this respect, and that quite frankly, she got fifty thousand dollars that
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must be more than you would get in a class action lawsuit to be honest
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with you, however, for what this guy is has alleged to have done,
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it'd be more interested in criminal modalis against him. And what are they
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doing to pursue this on the criminal side as opposed to the civil side,
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because it's from all of the media reports, it's pretty disgusting, unbelievable.
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Yeah, I don't know what has been done there. Maybe something has been
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done, but yeah, why are we not doing that? John thoughts,
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Yeah, this is such a tough one. I mean, she left the
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office without with the money, excuse me, but without having signed this document,
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and it was agreed that she'd be running this by a lawyer that was
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referred to her by the one who was res Eppors representing them. This is
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just you know, do your two diligence, I suppose, Like this is
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why I do my very best to not have to sign contracts these days.
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It's much easier, quite frankly, and it's just like they I don't know,
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I don't know what to say about it beyond that I was struck by
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this story out of Florida where they have and I don't know how they're going
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to enforce it, but I do think it is a good place to start.
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Apparently, the terms of agreement for most social media says that you have
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to be over fourteen, but Rohn DeSantis has signed a bill saying that you
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have to be under or over the age of fourteen in order to have social
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media on your smartphone. Being buried in those devices all day is not the
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best way to grow up. It's not the best way to get a good
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education. During the governor's bill sign what was not mentioned how the law would
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be enforced, but the social media platforms themselves would be held responsible. There's
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no bill powerful enough to keep these kids from social media. It's not possible.
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That is probably true, Calvin, But I like the idea of this
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being a starting point for a conversation and maybe a red flag that is raised
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when parents probably would want to rethink. And I'm taking a look at some
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numbers in like twenty ten to now, suicide among young people have skyrocketed,
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self harm, depression, all of these things. Now, do we know
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that it's from social media. No, but it seems to coincide with the
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boom, so thoughts there. Yeah, I do think that this is a
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role where parents should be played a bigger part. It is up to them
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to have a better awareness of their children's behavior, what they're doing. What
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I've read about this action from Florida. I'm to be honest, I'm waiting
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for the follower media reports for people are going to start using this as a
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get rich quick scheme because from what I understand and making to this bill,
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if a social media site allows somebody under fourteen to join and they don't remove
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the profile, then the family or that child is up or eligible to get
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ten thousand dollars in damages like that, I'm going to start signing my kids
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up for social accounts and hope they don't get noticed, right like bring the
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money in. I think kids are smart enough to use some sort of you
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know, cartoon character or some other kind of picture, some avatar to start
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their profile if they want to badly enough, and they know how to hide
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these apps on their phones where their parents aren't going to find it. John
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Miley point is that, yes, I think it's time to have that conversation,
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and I don't know. Just as we argue about, you know,
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kids and sex education, there needs to be some serious education on how we
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have discourse when we're young on social media. It's terrifying that these conversations are,
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quite frankly still ongoing. I was a kid when social media came out.
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It was two thousand and seven, I think when I ended up getting
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onto a Facebook account or excuse me, twenty twelve to get on a Facebook
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account earlier than that with a MySpace account. And the point being is like,
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you know, my generation grew up with the concerns the issues, we've
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seen it evolved and we do know better, but we haven't gotten better as
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a society. Our governments haven't gotten better in dealing with this. So,
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you know, kudos for coming out with legislation, albeit I think legislation that's
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unenforceable, that has a lot of problems as Calvin has just identified there,
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but it's clear that we need to have some regulations. I have a concern
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that this will be highly politicized, maybe to attack the social media companies themselves,
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but you know, there has to be a start of a conversation somewhere.
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The whole algorithm is built to keep not just young people and their eyeballs
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on the thing for as long as possible, but every single person, and
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reminds me of that Senate here in a couple of weeks ago, when I
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forget the senator forced Mark Zuckerberg to turn around and to apologize to parents who
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had lost their kid to any number of different things. And we're not just
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talking about scams here, which young people are very vulnerable to being bribed because
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of any number of different things or what have you, but we're talking about
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the damage that it can do overall. I guess my point is that I'm
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just happy that the discussion is going to get out there and perhaps people will
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finally do something about it or try to make sure that your kids aren't on
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it, but that might be an impossible task. Yale Psychologists, as we
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all follow the Yale psychologists guys, they feel that being too busy can damage
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your brain health. They give three cogestions on how you can work around that.
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It involves something called limit time blocking, celebrate your wins if you can
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get your things done on time. And also they encourage us, if you
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have the money to get somebody else to do something to free up time,
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then go for that. Any thoughts on that, Do you guys feel overwhelmed
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by all the different things you have to do at work? Calvin, Yeah,
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I was filing this one under the category of no kidding. There was
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a time during COVID in particular, when all of a sudden, every meeting
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had to happen in zoom, so we had to have a calendar block and
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there had to be an invite in there. Given. Look at your calendar
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for the weekend, it's just, you know, these big blocks of color
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with very little free time. And that's kind of thing. Man, I'm
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getting like calendar anxiety. We're looking at this and I have no time to
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get anything else done. I think absolutely, You've got to find strategies to
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to deal with that and find that time. And when you get some time
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to yourself or some free time, yes, to celebrate it. Put it
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to good use. You use it to relax, use it to decompress and
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get away from the tasks. And remember that, I mean for most of
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us, you know, we're not doing brain surgery. For those those who
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are brain surgeons, we're not doing rocket science. There are things that we
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can put off until tomorrow for another hour and take that time that you need
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to make sure that your brains ad a good spot. And I always say
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no, don't worry about it. Yeah, say no to people if you
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feel like, oh, this person's been nice to me in the past.
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If you can't do it, or you're a feel overwhelmed, just say no.
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I'm glad you guys didn't do that tonight. John lid Key is a
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radio host and podcaster out of Windsor Thanks John, and Calvin Reid is the
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director of pr AT Enterprise Canada. When we come back, when it comes
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to our economy, what should we break behind the glass because apparently we have
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an emergency next