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This is News Talk Tonight with Jim Richards on the iHeartRadio Talk Network. All
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Right, top rock and roll bagpipe songs that might be number one? And
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the list is only one. No, I think Glass Tiger did some bagpipes.
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Maybe Rod Stewart did some bagpipes. Seven ten? Who did pop music
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bagpipes? I mean, we could google it, but Tony is busy googling
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something else right now. I have to folks be economical with yelling at people
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about what to google. Hey wait a second, Noah, what are you
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doing. Let's get into the rundown, which is where we tackle some of
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the big news stories of the day. Jill Wilson is with us, very
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grateful for her time partner at the g W Group. Jill, thank you
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very much for your time. Hello, great to be here. And John
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Lidkey is with us from our sister station in Windsor, podcaster and radio host
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as well. John, thank you very much for your time. Always a
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pleasure. Thank you. I was saying earlier that if you do not like
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Pierre Pauliev, you have to admire his political acumen. I mean, the
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guy is a pitbull. He has a real ability to communicate and this idea
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that there would be a carbon tax election. Of course, it is not
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going to happen. He is challenging the Liberal government that if they do not
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get rid of the increase on the carbon tax, and I'm guessing get rid
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of the carbon tax by the end of this month so it doesn't go up
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fifty percent on April the first, that they are going to call for a
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no confidence vote, which is just a stunt, folks, but it communicates
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the point really really well that he's going to bat for the little guy before
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this goes up. So great, pauliticking Jill, but nobody expects this to
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happen. I think, you know, Pierre Pierre doing this is in response
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to a variety of different things, but I think the main thing, it's
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not just the little guy. I think it's the majority of Canadians who are
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fed up with the government in Ottawa. Life is not afford affordable anymore,
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and the carbon tax is just something else that Canadians need to be concerned about
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on April first, and so I hope I'm excited about the vote on Thursday,
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and should it not pass, I hope Pierre does more of this.
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I think it's important and it's in response to what he's hearing from Canadians and
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his provincial premiers. Trudeau responding the Parliamentary Budget Officers Report lays out clearly that
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eight out of ten Canadians families across the country where the price on pollution applies,
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we've got more money back every year. So that his message John one
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that they have not been able to communicate, despite the fact they've got this
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new communications team. They've rebranded it something that nobody remembers from two weeks ago,
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and yeah, the horse has left the barn on that thing. I
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mean, they got to try to fight on some different fronts, even though
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I don't know if you can because I think the affordability issue and people thinking
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that the garbon tax is going to have a great trajectory in solving that is
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something that may or may not be true, depending on what economists you talk
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to. But I think that ship has sailed. They can't run on affordability,
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but they can try to continue to run on the carbon tax, which
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is almost the only thing that they have left at this point. You can't
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really do anything about Ukraine because foreign policy isn't going to get you any votes.
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Domestically, when it comes to an election, so they're left sort of
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rutterless here and Polliev is taking advantage of this situation, and you know,
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quite frankly, good for him for putting the government on notice because the NDP
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likes to do it a lot on social media, but you know, they're
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propping up this government continually, and it always becomes just so hypocritical to see
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that happening. And it's a great wedge that positions himself against the Liberals and
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the NDP and with people so angry right now at the economy, at the
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situation they're living in, and at Trudeau as the figurehead of you know,
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the situation that we're dealing with. This is again it's just a great wedge.
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Do you support Trudeau or do you oppose Trudeau? And we're willing to
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scoop up the votes of those who oppose Trudeau, is what the Conservatives are
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positioning themselves for. I was listening to Vashi earlier, and I know I
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didn't send this to you, and I don't even know if you want it.
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You can pass on it if you like, but you mentioned Ukraine and
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the Gaza situation, and earlier this week vote on recognizing Palestine, which was
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ridiculous, and I think they knew it was ridiculous, But I don't even
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know why the Liberals just didn't stick to their Hey, we're not going to
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come up with foreign police leon the fly just because the opposition has introduced emotion.
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They should have just let it die. But I guess they probably were
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concerned about a huge voting block of the Muslim community and maybe more than the
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one point eight million people in this country who I think everybody has sympathies for
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people in Gaza, but I don't know where that puts them. Do you
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have any thoughts on trying to walk that fine political line, Jill and appease
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both the Muslim community and the Jewish community and probably not making either of them
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happy. I think it was a huge misstep on the liberals part. I
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think Liberal Anthony Hniflather set it right that it was the first time where he
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felt as a member that his party crossed the line, and I think a
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lot of Liberal members will share that and question kind of their future in the
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party. And I think that that will also translate to voters and Liberal members
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liberal members, and so I think it's going to be it's another tough spot
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that Trudeau has put his party and caucus in on policy and on foreign policy.
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Yeah, bring it up, just because there's a whole bunch of audio
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that I have in front of me of liberal MPs kind of being like,
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you know what, we all like Anthony Eva. Obviously, for mister house
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Father and others, this is a highly emotional question. I do not exchange.
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Obviously, Anthony and I are are friends, and I understand where he's
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coming from. It is extremely emotional for him. It's extremely emotional. He's
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a great member of parliament. He's a great member of parliaman of enormous respect
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for him and the community represents. And I think we all benefit of having
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people and I can toned among our caucus. So certainly it's a tough one
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for him, John, Yeah, it really is. The the you know,
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the Liberals tried aren't everything everywhere all at once, and they've ended up
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upsetting everyone everywhere all at once with this. And I can appreciate MPUs father
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there. I mean, I just I don't understand how you continue to hold
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these two conflicting views. And I imagine in the next couple of days we'll
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see him come forward with a further statement about this, and I'd imagine the
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party has to do a lot to try to keep him happy. There you
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have the vocal stylings of John Lidkey is a broadcaster a podcaster from Windsor.
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Jill Wilson is with us as well. She's a partner at the GW Group.
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More of the rundown, the big news stories of the day in a
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moment here on the iHeart Talk Radio Network. My job is not to be
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popular. Welcome back to News Talk Tonight with Jim Richards on the iHeartRadio Talk
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Network. Why are we down to fifteen? Folks? International Happiness Day?
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We are down to fifteen. I would love to hear from you telling me
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why you're not happy. The easy thing to do for the broadcaster on International
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Happiness Day would be go, hey, why you loving life? But why
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is Canadian Canada sucking? For you? Right now? Is what I'm going
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for. Why do things suck in this country? Fifteen minutes away from some
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of the most depressing radio you've ever heard. That's a promise here on News
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Talk Tonight. Hope you can be a part of it. All right,
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let's continue with our rundown which features the vocal stylings of Jill Wilson. She
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is a partner at the group, and John Lidkey is a broadcaster with her
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sister station in Windsor and podcast host as well. Do you want to plug
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your podcast? John? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, I've got a brand
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new one Connec's with John Lidkey where I am just unloading about all of the
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things that are going on around us and what a target rich environment we are
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living in, a target reach environment. Jill, do you have a podcast
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you want to plug? Not yet, you're on this one. How about
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plugging this one? Okay, good job, thank you very much, Let's
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continue. I've always thought this, guys, that the any real election of
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reform should not be done by the governing party at that time. I think
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jerymandeering writings or down in the United States is absolutely undemocratic, and I don't
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think that the rules for democracy should be set by any governing party, whether
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it's the Liberals, Conservatives, the NDP, et cetera, et cetera,
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et cetera. But Liberals have introduced some election reforms that would possibly go into
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effect for the next election, and they include adding two additional days of advance
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polling. That would mean seven days to cast a ballot. I don't see
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why that would be bad. But some of this stuff, you could say
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Skew is young, and you could say liberal or NDP votes, Skew young,
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voting by mail, making a twenty fifteen pilot program permanent, which is
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voting on campus. There are some other things as well. There's not specific
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things that I think are bad in here, but Jill one might argue that
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it might lean left, but one might argue that when the Conservatives do it
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that it leans right. I don't again. I would think that every party
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should be able to nominate a whole bunch of people and then they all have
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to agree on like a pool of people, like each nominate ten and say
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you got thirty people and you have to agree on I don't know seven or
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eight or nine or whoever is going to come up with these rules. But
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doing it with the governing party just does not seem democratic. What are your
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thoughts? Yeah, I think the these changes and they say sweeping changes,
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reforms, but they're not overly sweeping. Yeah, if you ask me,
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they're fairly straightforward. They definitely skew young to you know, university college voters
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mail in ballot that that always skews young and typically will skew on the left
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as well in terms of where those votes will go. But the Liberal government
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promised electoral reform before taking office in twenty fifteen. So my question is,
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are these the reforms that took you know, ten years, just under ten
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years to come up with. Seems a little lackluster to me in terms of
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electoral reform, but it's definitely their way of checking the box when it comes
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to campaign promises as they look forward the next federal election. Trump's claim,
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I guess vote voting by mail was that you couldn't accurately discern who the person
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was. I mean, thus all of it was fraudulent. But it's funny
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that going to a mail box or putting a stamp on something. I guess
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you don't have to do that, but that vote, that's seemed like a
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young thing to do. John, But your thoughts on these alleged reforms,
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you know, there's nothing inherently wrong with any of this here, looking at
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it all on face value, most of it we've already been having for a
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number of years without problems. The issue is is that We've already had institutional
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decline right now and mistrust among our electorate, and this is only going to
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increase it when people start to hear a liberal voting law that's going to be
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passed and the Conservatives are going to own this and they're bringing in traditional non
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voters who are going to eat this up. And that's a big risk for
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the government to be doing at this moment. And again, there's nothing wrong
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here, but again, this is a government a prime minister that wanted to
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have ranked ballots. I get an interview with him back in twenty fifteen and
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he made that very clear to me, but that's not how things rolled out.
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And he has owned not doing electoral reform, and I think it's way
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too late to be coming out with something like this, and the cynicism that
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we're seeing in the country is going to take old and this is a problem.
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Yeah, this isn't their electoral form that people wanted, You're right,
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but it's the one that they're going to get. And then when the Conservatives
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get in, they're going to be able to do the same things. Perhaps
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that might skew their way, but I don't know, Like none of this
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stuff is going to help them right now to think that this is a difference
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maker. They are out to lunch. My job is not to be popular
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doing a great job. As we have said before. This professor that has
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apparently been dropped by Waterloo, I should say lecturer has been dropped by Waterloo,
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not by Gwelph, in the wake of a paper that apparently he had
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written in years gone by. Students have found it and thought that way,
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I don't want to be taught by somebody who thinks that the paper the title
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is difficult. He's hunting at work and he's talking about dating at work.
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He says apparently in the paper boys rejecting girls is out of control and turning
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them gay. Okay, that aside, and it's hard to say that aside
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that this guy has been dropped by this one university because he wrote something like
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that but never acted on it, apparently, and students who had him in
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the past have said he was a great teacher and they're shocked by this.
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But that aside, because you could argue whether or not the guy because you
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wrote something in years gone by, should be fired if he's never acted on
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any of it or not invited back. But the question here, I guess,
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is is there anything wrong with professor's male or female dating students? And
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I would say yes, what if they weren't your student? Still a yes,
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because I'm guessing that you might have sway in the teacher's office to say,
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hey, Larry, I see you got my girlfriend in your class.
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It does seem like an odd suggestion that teachers should be able to date students.
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John, Yeah, this is just not one that I would want to
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have to defend by any means whatsoever. There are obviously big issues here that
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come to mind in terms of having someone who's in an authoritative position and someone
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who is a subordinate. And it's not a workplace situation. It's a student
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that we're talking about here. Yeah, No, it's a bad situation all
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around. Heard the topic discussed earlier today and people were saying, well,
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you know what, you're an adult. I don't know. The power imbalance
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is very difficult to pass. I'm not sure how you could allow that.
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Jill, Yeah, it's it's definitely inappropriate. I have not read the paper.
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I understand it since been taken down, but it's one of those things
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reading the story you have almost a physical reaction to it's it's cringe worthy and
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I think that it's inappropriate. And GWELPH is in a really tough position,
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as John mentioned, and you know, try to defend this as he's still
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a lecture at GWELP, although having been released from Waterloo, gwelf is going
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to be in a position, a very difficult position to determine what to do
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next. I got to say, like part of me was like, Okay,
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he wrote this paper, he's never acted on it, and then I'm
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reading what is quoted from it in the article and I'm like, I can't.
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I can't. I can't back that any longer. I mean, I
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would be like, Okay, he's trying to date at school, you can't
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do that, Or if he's teaching any of this stuff, he can't do
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that. But if he's written something that he hasn't acted on, then I'm
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not sure what you can do. But then again, you don't want to
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run into a situation somewhere down the road where everybody's like I told, yeah,
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but let's move on. Canada is declining when it comes to the happiness
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ranking. I'm wondering if any of you feel that that is true, Like
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the guy who we played a clip of him earlier, and he says that
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some of the things, like the affordability thing he says, is not that
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it's that in Canada and the United States, young people who are bringing your
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number down are I guess too much into the negative news cycle and that is
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contributing to our not being the happiest that we can be. John, Yeah,
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I mean, listen, social media is not great. We see an
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echo chamber of everything that's wrong in the world. But it's not to suggest
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that there aren't things that are wrong in the world. We're looking at war
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in Europe, We're looking at war in the Middle East. We're looking at
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an affordability crisis here domestically, we're looking at a situation where the vast majority
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of young people are not able to afford a home, let alone even imagine
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purchasing a home at any point in their lifetime. So, you know,
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the cards that are being dealt right now are pretty rough, and I don't
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think it's surprising to see that the happiness is dropping with it. All right,
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Jill, I'm I'm afraid we're going to have to end it there.
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Thank you very much for both of you for joining US tonight on the Rundown.
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Jill Wilson is a partner at GW Group. John Lidkey has a podcast
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called Covech and he is also on our sister station in Windsor, I Jimerally
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