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The Rundown with Stephen Murdoch and Jon Liedtke - April 24, 2024 · Kvetch & Release

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Life to Jesus. News Talk Tonight is on with your host Jim Richards on
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the iHeartRadio Talk Network. But Stephen Murdoch is here. It's time for the
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rundown. Everybody. It's the News Talk Tonight. I am Jim Richards.
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The rundown is where we grab some of the greatest pundits that this station has
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ever heard, the likes of Stephen Murdoch, Vice President of the Enterprise Canada.
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They're a PR firm. John Lidkey joins us as well. He's a
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radio and podcast host in Windsor. Check out his podcast called Cavetch Guys.
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Thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it. Thanks Jim,
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thanks for having us. All right, I wanted to get right into this
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discussion today. Earlier today, I always thought if people have been following Peer
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Paulia for long enough, there's I don't think anybody ever thought that. The
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old adage that if you win the nomination for the Conservative Party of Canada,
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you win on the right and then you move to the center when you're trying
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to win a general election. Some might say that that's why Aaron O'Toole was
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stabbed in the back by his own party. Pierre hasn't done that, but
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I don't think that he's ever given any indication during his career that he would
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do that. Now hanging out again with a convoy. For most people who
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would vote conservative, that's probably not problematic if you need to, you know,
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siphon off a whole bunch of people that have voted liberal in the past,
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they're probably going away. You know, I'm not a huge fran of
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that. But oh, sign the guy's going to ask the tax. Well,
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that's hope. So I don't hope. So I love the way I'm
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the guy who's going to ask the tax, like they didn't recognize him or
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something like that. Oh, I'm the guy's going to ask the tax.
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But Justin Trudeau, on the other hand, he was asked about it and
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he goes on to like, you need to say, I don't accept Alec
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Jones's endorsement. A politician has to make choices about what kind of leader they
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want to be. Are they a kind of leader that is going to exacerbate
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divisions, fears and polarization in our comer. The thing is like Pier poliev
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if and when he wins, and I think he will win is going to
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win with some people who have maybe for a while parked votes or voted for
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Justin Trudeau, but people are sick and tired of him. So Justin,
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maybe you need to look in the mirror and go, hey, what is
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it about me that the people who voted for me now they want to vote
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for him? Do you think maybe it's that then diagrams on a circle.
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There's probably a lot of things that people aren't super happy about Pierre Poliev and
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his camp, but they're going to park their vote anyway because they don't like
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me. Your thoughts on that, Steven, Yeah, I find it ironic.
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He's talking about divisiveness. I mean, first off, I personally think
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you shouldn't have stopped. I understand from what I gather it was done on
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a whim. You know, they saw the carbon we'll call them the carbon
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convoy. Anti carbon convoy jumps in an RV and has conversation with these folks.
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I can appreciate in essence of what he wanted to do. But when
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you have all the momentum, I have no idea why you do that.
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As you know, you've had all the momentum up to now. As you
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said, you're you're playing to your base. But if you really want to
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build and get more voters out and to rally behind you, you just don't
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want to be stopping and doing that kind of thing. John All echo the
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same sentiments here. When I saw this for the first time on Twitter today,
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I thought that it was actually just old footage from the convoy two years
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ago, and I just scrolled right by, and then as I started to
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see more more the stories, it was just like, oh my gosh,
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we're doing this again. How how is this a smart move to make for
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a leader who is right now? If election we're held, would take forty
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three percent of the vote. These are huge, huge majority. The risk
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is to be reducing that majority. And I don't know why someone would want
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to go out of their way to do that unless they've got, you know,
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good pulling that shows that people are with him to the end, regardless
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of the actions that he takes. I remember, yeah, I remember a
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couple of days ago I said, the only thing that can happen here is
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going to run up to an election, and I don't think this is it.
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Maybe it's a small paper cut for Pierre, but I think the only
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way that Trudeau can improve his standing is if at every given opportunity Pierre Pauliev
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steps on a rake. And this is you know you want if you're the
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Liberals, you want him to continue to do this sort of thing. Steven,
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Yeah, if you're in the Liberal camp, every time there's a midstep,
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can guarantee his comms team are chomping at the bit to put Trudeau out
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there and paint him as something else. And this is going to continue and
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there'll be missteps from here until the election. But yeah, I fully expect
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every time that Prime Minister Trudeau will jump up and say, hey, is
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this who we want as our leader. So this will be the first of
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many of where he's going to provide commentary. This is old commentary from Pierre,
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going back to the first convoy where when asked about this sort of thing,
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he said again, this is old. When there's a left wing protest
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on Parliament Hill, we don't see the liberal media going through every single name
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of the people who attends to try and find one person that they can disparage
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the whole group with. You know, we don't see CBC, for example,
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has been accused by its own employees of systemic racism, So you get
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the idea. But I agree with you guys that you know what it's best
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to kind of avoid these different distractions. It's not what you need because a
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lot of your votes are going to be just people who I guess blow whatever
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way the wind is when it comes to certain elections, and you don't want
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to upset them. But let's move along. Is everybody excited? I'm rading
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the gazette here out of Montreal. Montreal to Toronto trip is now going to
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be fourteen minutes faster because of the move by the provincial party in Ontario to
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increase some four hundred a series of highways up to one ten from one hundred.
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When asked in Quebec, the Quebec Transportation minister said that there is no
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intention of changing speed limits in that province. Is this something that makes this
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a big difference? As I said earlier, they've changed the fastness, but
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the furious level remains unchanged. Stephen, Well, imagine you're going to be
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sitting in a pub in downtown Montreal fourteen minutes quicker. Yeah, I have
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no problem with this. I think most provinces already at around one ten.
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People are going to do that speed. This was the speed in the seventies
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mid seventies one ten, and then it got dropped down. Let's face it,
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if you've been down on the QW. I spent a lot of time
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going up to QW Corridor between Nagar and Toronto. There are a lot of
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people who are already doing one ten. All this is going to do is
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give them free rain to jump up to one thirty. Do you think that
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happens though? Because I just know when I'm driving, then you look down
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at the speed limit, you go, oh, I'm driving one twenty five.
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I'm driving one thirty because you're just going Whether it's the flow of traffic,
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I just feel like, I don't know. I don't think people are
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going to be going ten kilometers faster. I disagree with that. I might
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be wrong. We'll find out, but John, oh, I think it'll
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actually absolutely be people traveling at a regular speed now of one hundred and twenty
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eight kilometers an hour. It's smart politics for Premier Ford. There's obviously they
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came back and they said the safety issue isn't there. We already had it
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like this in the past. There's no real costs associated with this measure.
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So it's an easy one to throw to the people and say, look,
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I'm making your commutes easier. I'm making it easier to get for you to
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get to the cottage or to get to where you need to go. You
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know, there's a lot of upside on this. I don't see much downside,
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all right. The lovely vocal stylings of John Lidkey. He's with us.
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He's a radio and podcast host out of Windsor, Ontario. Check out
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his podcast Covetch and also Stephen Murdock, Vice President of Enterprise Canada. When
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we come back right here on the iHeart Talk Radio Network. Is everybody who
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pays rent exciting? Excited about that going towards your credit score? If you're
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trying to get a mortgage, I mean the mortgage that I still can't afford,
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awesome, man, is great news to that? And who do you
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think should be on the mount rushmore of action heroes when it comes to movies.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger will weigh in. Coming up on the iHeart Talk Radio Network.
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Welcome back to news Talk tonight with Jim Richards on the iHeartRadio Talk Network.
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A couple of things that we're going to get to with our friend Moschlander,
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who is a great economist. He is a professor at Concordia in Montreal.
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We are going to get to the fact that whole bunch of family doctors,
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doctors actually right across the board in this country are not happy about the
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capital gains tax going from fifty to two thirds. And also how much of
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a problem it could be for some people in precarious times of paying rent that
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now is going to affect their credit score. So is that a good thing
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or a bad thing might be depending on how how you look at it.
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Guys, if I could just pick up on the capital gains thing, I
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find it interesting because again another poll today from Leja saying that the budget didn't
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do anything from the for the Trudeau government. Maybe we're not shocked about that,
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but also I'm interested in your thoughts as we're back here with Stephen Murdoch
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of Enterprise Canada and John Lidkey, who is a radio host and podcaster in
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Windsor. What we've heard since the budget, Stephen is that the Liberals wanted
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the Conservatives to bite. They wanted them to defend rich people in this country
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about the changes when it comes to capital gains. But you know, now
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we hear about people who maybe can't afford their family cottage and they're not super
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rich, but they're going to possibly get dinged. And people who've worked their
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whole life and maybe bought a cottage like twenty years ago when it was super
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cheap and haven't made a lot of money, but it was a huge sacrifice
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for them, and doctors. I'm not sure that this is the waters that
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the Conservatives wouldn't want to get in on and say, hey, look at
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all of these hardworking people that are affected by this. I'm not sure now
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that they can see it not necessarily working out perfectly. Do you think the
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Conservatives should jump and get into that. No. I think you're spot on
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when you said early on that the Liberal Party was hoping that the Conservatives would
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jump at the opportunity and defend the rich, the ultra rich, I should
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say in Canada, and that didn't happen, And you know, I think
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he's done the damage himself. I mean, we all have friends and family
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who are have that second cottage or have that first cottage, who are doctors,
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professionals who have built businesses and may be invested in real estate as a
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means of retiring. And now what's going to happen is they're going to be
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taxed up the Ying Yang and he's done this to himself and so I don't
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see a lot of value at this time. There's no other context he can
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provide. A lot of Canadians are smart, they're educating themselves on this and
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the damage, in my opinion, has been done without the Conservative Party having
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to provide any kind of commentary on it. I love the taxed up the
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Ying Yang reference. It makes me wonder if people are getting their taxes done
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by their proctologist. Perhaps John your thoughts. You know, I understand where
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the Liberals are coming from on this one, wanting to try to box the
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Conservatives in, but people's impressions of the Prime Minister right now are baked in
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and I don't know how they're going to be able to actually go and sell
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this leader again at this time when the situation is a lot worse than it
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wasn't twenty fifteen. And it's hard to run on, you know, restoring
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the middle class when you've been in power for as long as you have and
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you ran on that the first time. People have benefit out of the doubt.
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Running quite slim these days. All right, let's talk about some outrage
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and sometimes when that happens online, I'll click on and I'll go people are
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mad about that. But there seems to be outrage after Ontario's student explained how
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to use food banks for free for groceries, which is just interesting to me
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that people would be able to use fame faith. Listen, I'm not saying
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that if you use food banks that you should be or feel shame because the
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people who need them, they're there for a reason. But I think a
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lot of people who do feel like they've done something wrong. But now that
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we're doing it and people are concerned that, oh yeah, everybody's going to
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be doing it because it's a cool thing. This is ow I saved hundreds
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of bucks every month in put and grocery, all these groceries for this week,
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I got free is for everyone, all these students. They even have
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hot foods at every university. Yeah pay Most of the universities and colleges made
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food bank for day, which are run by Truss Juice, a nonprofit organizations.
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Let me show you what I got to be. You can take as
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much as you want starry basic foods and vegetables, bread sauces, pastas,
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and ken vegetables, which is subject to availability. I might be wrong,
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and certainly I don't know how this floats with some people. I don't know
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that people are just going to do it because it's a cool thing. I
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would only hope that people would do it because they need it. Steven,
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but maybe we should be outraged that we're teaching people who might not know where
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to go how to feed themselves. Yeah, this is It's a hard one
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all around. I mean, if you're a student, you know a lot
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of it falls on the post secondary institution to let students know which tools are
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available and services that they can seek when they're in crises for food. And
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maybe that's not we're not doing that collectively a good enough job that students need
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to watch these kind of videos and figure that out. At the end of
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the day, no Canadian wants to see the abuse of food banks. There
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are people, good, good people in communities across this country who depend on
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those food banks, and it'll become a crisis if we have people people that
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are abusing them that may necessarily may have other means. And I think what
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added fuel to the fire on this one specifically, is this gentleman supposedly works
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for TD and had a job where he was making ninety six ninety eight thousand
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dollars a year, so in the eyes of most Canadians, where the average
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salaries maybe thirty seven or that created a lot of in anger. So if
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there's truth to that, you know, this could have been done in a
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much better way. I would agree with that, John. You know,
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if people need to use a food bank, that's what it's there for.
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To go and use a food bank while people are really in need is a
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big issue. And this looks like it was you know, videotape and design
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to be put onto social media to get people outraged and wanting to probably just
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raise farm quite frankly. But now we know that he's also taken down one
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of his accounts. But look, I mean, I don't should we have
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means testing at food banks. I don't think that that's the way. I'd
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like to see a country where we don't need to use a food bank.
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I'd like to see a country where we don't have people that are going out
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of their way to teach people how to exploit it. But the food bank
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is free. It's like, how do you do it? You go to
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the food bank and you get the free grocery, so it's not like there's
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anything you have to really learn how to do it. You're trying to get
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likes off of social media that you're essentially robbing from the poor to pay you
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know, your likes or your followers to get followers. It is it's fairly
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gross and well, I just find it not fascinating is not the word?
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Just like, are we really in a world right now where that people would
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do that where they're well off or they're well and that they'd go to food
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banks and get food for free? Just sounds like something that is completely gross
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to me. And finally, guys, if you've missed rent payments, it
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could soon damage your credit score. Tenants advocates are very concerned. So this
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is a good idea or not a good idea. Never really understood this,
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John in that if I don't if you have enough money for a mortgage,
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I think that's more the concern. Clearly, if you've been renting, most
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people are going to be able to say that they've had good credit because of
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their because they've been paying the rent. I don't know that that needed to
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change. Yeah, I don't know if it needed to change either. I
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can understand wanting to go and help people develop better credit, and we know
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that this is what five million people is what's targeted here. But the potential
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on the flip side of it, for you know, negative credit, I
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think is potential to far outweigh that the system was working. Arguably. It's
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not like this is going to go and help lower rental costs. What about
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you, Stephen, I'm in full agreement. I really don't understand this,
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to be honest with you. But you know, like anything else, if
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you're not going to pay bills, that's going to impact your credit too,
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Right, So it's a you're going to miss a payment. Is that going
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to impact your credit? Well, here's reality, miss a bill anywhere else
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and that's going to impact your credit too. So yeah, it really goes
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both ways. Thanks guys, really appreciate it. Thank you very much for
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your time. Thanks Jim. Thanks youd full to Stephen Murdock, Vice President
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of Enterprise Canada. And I was going to ask him something, but I'm
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not going to now because I'm not going to. And John Lidkey is a
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radio producer, sorry, a radio and a host and a podcast host.
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Cove Cavech is the name of his podcast. He's from wins, Ontario.
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I'm from Toronto. How are you guys doing? When we come back,
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mister mosh land Or, an economist who is also a professor at Concordia,
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will join as to talk about that on your credit and also to talk about
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something that many Canadians are talking about, which is, hey, I thought
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I didn't know that I was rich and I'm affected by capital gains changes.
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