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  Speaker 2: and another voice here on the. Show John litkey is
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  Speaker 2: joining us again this. Morning good Morning, John good Morning.
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  Speaker 1: Jean thanks for having.
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  Speaker 3: Me always great to have you.
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  Speaker 1: On.
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  Speaker 2: John you've been taking a very very serious look at
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  Speaker 2: The Gordie Howe bridge that Connects, Windsor, ontario To, Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: Michigan this new bridge has been needed for years and
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  Speaker 2: years and. Years it costs six point four billion. Dollars
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  Speaker 2: canada paid for the entire. Thing we Use canadian, Labor canadian,
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  Speaker 2: Steel we Used american labor And american, steel but all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden after one phone call from a billionaire
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  Speaker 2: In detroit To Donald, trump and now the whole thing
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  Speaker 2: could be. Stopped who've been? Investigating what have you?
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  Speaker 1: Found, Yeah i've been looking into this, one and you,
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  Speaker 1: know it's really. Interesting we spoke a couple weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: about How Donald trump threatened to not open the, bridge
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  Speaker 1: AND i figured it made sense to talk to or
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  Speaker 1: listeners and provide them with a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: background about The Gordi Hub, bridge why it's, needed and
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  Speaker 1: what the issue. Is it's what we have here In.
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  Speaker 1: Windsor it's the busiest commercial crossing In North. America, arguably
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  Speaker 1: it's the most economically vital kilometer of pavement on the
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  Speaker 1: entire planet, gene and it's been consolidated into the private
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  Speaker 1: financial portfolio of a Single michigan. Family for fifty, years
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  Speaker 1: two nations have allowed their industrial lifeblood to be funneled
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  Speaker 1: through a private, bottleneck leaving our collective economic security subject
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  Speaker 1: to the interest a family. Trust quite, frankly and every sixty,
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  Speaker 1: seconds hundreds of thousands of dollars in auto parts produced
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  Speaker 1: and critical goods crossed The Detroit river on the Current Ambassador.
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  Speaker 1: Bridge it's the literal valve of The North american. Economy
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  Speaker 1: but for half a, century the artery hasn't been governed By,
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  Speaker 1: parliament or By congress or anyone you can actually vote
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  Speaker 1: out of. Office it's been run by The maroon. Family
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  Speaker 1: it's a private. Empire it's not a corridor that is
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  Speaker 1: a monument to diplomacy or a triumph of government. Engineering
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  Speaker 1: it's an autopsy of what happens when two nations outsource
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  Speaker 1: their sovereignty to a billionaire's bank. Account and we can
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  Speaker 1: see what a billionaire is able to do when they
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  Speaker 1: pick up the. Phone we were told that this is a,
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  Speaker 1: partnership but this iron grip has turned historic neighbors into sacrifice,
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  Speaker 1: zones quite frankly of plywood and rotting. Timber windsor's historic
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  Speaker 1: sandwich In detroit's Del.
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  Speaker 2: Rey, well you, KNOW i just find it interesting that
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  Speaker 2: a billionaire, family who by the, way have been opposing this,
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  Speaker 2: bridge which is needed for you years and years and,
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  Speaker 2: years ken at the last minute just pick up the,
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  Speaker 2: phone and you, Know trump changes everything all of a.
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  Speaker 1: Sudden, well we've heard That trump usually when he goes
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  Speaker 1: out and, talks he's saying the thing that he heard most.
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  Speaker 1: Recently so this billionaire was able to use his lobbyists
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  Speaker 1: and his connections to get a phone call it sounds,
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  Speaker 1: like or a, meeting and to be able to get
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  Speaker 1: into the president's. Ear but you, know to bring it
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  Speaker 1: back To windsor, here WHEN i was, mentioning you, Know
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  Speaker 1: sandwich Or delray In detroit, neighborhoods what The Ambassador bridge
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  Speaker 1: company wanted to. Do this is the maroon. Business they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to build a twin span on The Ambassador bridge
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  Speaker 1: to justify not building The Gordy. Howbridge and in order
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  Speaker 1: to do, that they bought up swaths of land in
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  Speaker 1: these historic neighborhoods and they bought up old family. Homes
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  Speaker 1: they didn't rent them, out they didn't least, them and
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  Speaker 1: they just left them to. Rot and it's been a
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  Speaker 1: twenty five year fight That windsor is currently still in
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  Speaker 1: the middle. Of we actually just recently got a vacant
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  Speaker 1: home tax put in to be able to just cause
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of you, know it's a headache more than,
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  Speaker 1: anything just causing people to have to sign. Checks but
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  Speaker 1: this is the cost of our monopoly that we're seeing.
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  Speaker 1: Here it's destroyed. Neighborhoods But if you look west down
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  Speaker 1: The Detroit, river you can see The Gordy Howe International.
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  Speaker 1: Bridge the thing's. Done the cranes are, down the steels.
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  Speaker 1: Linked it's that six and a half billion dollar beast
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  Speaker 1: designed to finally break us out of this economic monopolistic.
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  Speaker 1: Nightmare but instead of this ribbon cutting that we were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to, have we're getting this shakedown from the president
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  Speaker 1: while the lobbyists are whispering national security nonsense right into
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  Speaker 1: The president's, ears And Gordy how's namesake is being held
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  Speaker 1: hostage right, now caught in the middle of. It but
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  Speaker 1: it's not just. Infrastructure this is a six and a
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  Speaker 1: half billion dollar middle finger to a dynasty that thought
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  Speaker 1: that they owned the river in its. Entirety so the
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  Speaker 1: question isn't when does it, Open, Geane the question is
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  Speaker 1: how did we let a single family hold two nations
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  Speaker 1: by the throat for half a. Century why are we
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  Speaker 1: still letting them reach into our wallets?
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  Speaker 2: Today, WELL i guess With trump the he's A republican
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  Speaker 2: and The maroon family They're, republican AND i Guess trump
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  Speaker 2: wants them to keep contributing money to THE. Gop NOW
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  Speaker 2: i have to give The Prime minister, credit and instead
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  Speaker 2: of freaking out Like Donald trump, does he called The,
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  Speaker 2: president had a phone call with, him and he informed
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  Speaker 2: The president that we paid the entire tab and through,
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  Speaker 2: Tolls michigan will repay us. Half michigan will own fifty,
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  Speaker 2: Percent canada will own fifty. Percent and he also had
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  Speaker 2: to reassure The, president Who i'm assuming just didn't know,
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  Speaker 2: this that, yes it was built With canadian, steel but
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  Speaker 2: Also american, steele With american, labor and With canadian. Labor
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  Speaker 2: he would figure any common common sense thinking man would get,
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  Speaker 2: that BUT i guess we're talking About Donald.
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  Speaker 1: Trump, well and also consider the fact, THAT i, mean
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  Speaker 1: it's not Even michigan's not even paying for. It it's
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  Speaker 1: the toll revenue that they would be getting for it one.
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  Speaker 1: Thing but also, TOO i, mean the construction of the
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  Speaker 1: bridge happened under his first. Administration he was, there it
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  Speaker 1: was his. PROJECT i, mean, SO i, mean this is
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  Speaker 1: just it's the same AS nafta two point, zero, right
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  Speaker 1: and how it needs to be rewritten or torn. Apart
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  Speaker 1: the guy just has, hiss he, fits he throws temper.
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  Speaker 1: Tantrums but you, know this entire mess didn't start. Yesterday
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  Speaker 1: the bridge was built in the roaring, twenties But detroit
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  Speaker 1: actually they were so hyped to vote for. It they
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  Speaker 1: did it eight to one for the private offer to build.
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  Speaker 1: It they ignored the current mayor's warning then that the
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  Speaker 1: border shouldn't be. Privatized that mayor saw the, future knowing
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  Speaker 1: that if you give the private citizen the keys to a,
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  Speaker 1: border you're not building a, Bridge you're building a throne
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  Speaker 1: in an. Empire but in seventy, Nine Warren buffett actually
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  Speaker 1: tried to buy the. Bridge he bought up twenty five
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  Speaker 1: percent of, it But Matty maroon realized what was going
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  Speaker 1: on and he out Maneuvered Warren buffett and was able
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  Speaker 1: to purchase more of, it And buffett ended up buying
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  Speaker 1: selling out his shares To Matty maroon for a peasley
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  Speaker 1: amount of, money just of millions of, DOLLARS i believe
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  Speaker 1: at the. Time and WHEN nafta hit in nineteen ninety,
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  Speaker 1: Two Matty maroon wasn't just owning a, Bridge he owned
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  Speaker 1: The North american continence economic. Jugular and we saw the
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  Speaker 1: cost of that in twenty twenty two when The Ambassador
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  Speaker 1: bridge blockade happened and we had the bridge shut down
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  Speaker 1: for a full. Week it cost the auto sector three
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  Speaker 1: hundred million in direct. Losses it cost six billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: in trade to stop going across the. Border plants From
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  Speaker 1: lansing To oakville ground to a. Halt we actually had
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  Speaker 1: auto companies flying car parts across the river like it
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  Speaker 1: was The Berlin airlift going From windsor To. Detroit that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a trade. Roachime that was a war zone for our. Economy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely and you, know many people in The niagara region
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  Speaker 2: and other areas that are listening to us may be, saying,
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  Speaker 2: well you, know this is A Windsor detroit. Thing this
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  Speaker 2: is not A Windsor detroit. Thing this is a four
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  Speaker 2: to oh one corridor. Thing and thousands and thousands and
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  Speaker 2: thousands of businesses from.
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  Speaker 3: Ford eerie to all wah all over.
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  Speaker 2: The province Of, ontario all over Southern, ontario they rely
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  Speaker 2: on that.
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  Speaker 3: Bridge and it's a terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Bridge right, now we need The gordi How bridge opened
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  Speaker 2: as quickly as.
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  Speaker 3: Pass.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah we're not just to stop here In windsor on
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  Speaker 1: the way to somewhere. Else we're the literal bridge between two.
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  Speaker 1: Giants every single, minute hundreds of thousands of dollars goes.
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  Speaker 1: Across we're the, valve and if that valve gets, stuck
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  Speaker 1: the entire engine of the economy For canada seizes. Up
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  Speaker 1: the four oh one corridor grinds to a. Halt, so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no you're absolutely. Right, now The bridge company claims that
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  Speaker 1: the bridge is worth five billion DOLLARS. Us they say
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  Speaker 1: that they have an exclusive right to the. River they
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  Speaker 1: actually want to be paid for stolen tolls that will
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  Speaker 1: now be flowing to The. Gordy How bridge get that
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  Speaker 1: they want to be paid for the lost future revenue
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  Speaker 1: of monopoly that shouldn't have been. Allowed but you know,
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  Speaker 1: what if you want to talk about fair market, value
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  Speaker 1: let's actually talk fair market. Value we should take five
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  Speaker 1: hundred million off of what they say it's worth for
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  Speaker 1: the municipal tax, loss for the depreciation of the houses
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  Speaker 1: that have been left to, rot and for the policing
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  Speaker 1: cost of these ghost. Streets we should take a billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars off for the public health, cost because we know
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  Speaker 1: residents within five hundred feet of idling trucks on here
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  Speaker 1: On church which leads to The, ambassador have significantly higher
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  Speaker 1: rates of. Illnesses that's a maroon. Tax and then we
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  Speaker 1: should also take another billion away for the economic risk
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  Speaker 1: that was invited during the twenty twenty two blockade by
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  Speaker 1: being the only game in town and not pushing further
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  Speaker 1: and using every tool at their disposal to get the protesters.
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  Speaker 1: Removed so we should be charging them for the. DAMAGES
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  Speaker 1: i see fair market value at The Ambassador, bridge not
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  Speaker 1: at five BILLION. Us let's call it two Billion canadian.
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  Speaker 2: All, Right so as of This thursday, morning where do things?
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  Speaker 2: Stand when should it? Open if it does, open BECAUSE
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  Speaker 2: i Guess trump could, say, oh we're not going. Dula
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  Speaker 2: does he have that?
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  Speaker 3: Power?
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  Speaker 1: REALLY i mean sure he. Could he could direct his
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  Speaker 1: customs And border patrol agents to not work it and
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  Speaker 1: then to you, know make it unsafe to, operate and
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  Speaker 1: it would be shut. Down he could say it's not
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  Speaker 1: a priority border crossing and send the agents to other.
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  Speaker 1: Places maybe they have to go do immigration duty somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: ELSE i, mean there's a whole, thing the slew of
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  Speaker 1: things that he could. Do he could just slow it.
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  Speaker 1: DOWN i mean he. Could he's the, president and the
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  Speaker 1: president seemingly has all the powers right. Now but where
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  Speaker 1: do things stand? Here ottawa at least is finally waking.
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  Speaker 1: Up we've got the One Canadian Economy, act which allows
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  Speaker 1: us to cut through all the red tape that has
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  Speaker 1: been weaponized for. Ages but we need to go. Further
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  Speaker 1: we need federal laws to ban private ownership of any
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  Speaker 1: international border crossings forever moving. Forward borders can't be for.
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  Speaker 1: Sale if we can't control the gates to our, house
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  Speaker 1: we don't have a. House we're just. Renters we should
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  Speaker 1: be expropriating The Ambassador bridge right. Now screw the exclusive franchise,
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  Speaker 1: whining public interest trumps it. All reclaim it to mote
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  Speaker 1: it to a local. Link or we could go. Bold
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  Speaker 1: we could turn into a first of its kind international
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  Speaker 1: cross border pedestrian urban green park with cycling, paths walking.
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  Speaker 1: Paths listen though The gordy How. Bridge it's the bypass
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  Speaker 1: to all of the problems that we've been having in.
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  Speaker 1: Having but it's just the opening salvo in this fight
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  Speaker 1: for total border. Control gene the private border era that's,
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  Speaker 1: dead and we need to move forward to the sovereign.
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  Speaker 2: Bypass, yeah you, KNOW i saw the former governor Of
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  Speaker 2: michigan on some show on it was EITHER ctv OR,
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  Speaker 2: cbc and he was, saying we need to Bank. Canada
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  Speaker 2: this is an absolutely incredible thing For.
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  Speaker 3: MICHIGAN i just don't see. WHAT i don't see How
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  Speaker 3: trump just touts and.
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  Speaker 1: CADETS i think he just, wants you, know he wants
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  Speaker 1: a cut of. It this is like we've heard. People
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  Speaker 1: i'm not going to allege, it but we've heard people
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  Speaker 1: in media refer to his actions like mob. Boss AND i,
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  Speaker 1: think you know it's there's a way to look at
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  Speaker 1: it through a lens that the guy just wants his.
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  Speaker 1: Cut what more can he get out of? Us how
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  Speaker 1: could he shake us down just a little bit? More
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  Speaker 1: AND i wouldn't be surprised if he's already said that
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  Speaker 1: he thinks that they want more than fifty percent of the.
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  Speaker 1: Tolls so maybe he wants more than fifty percent of the.
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  Speaker 1: Ownership maybe he wants twenty five points of the ownership
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  Speaker 1: from our side And michigan keeps fifty percent of the.
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  Speaker 1: Ownership who knows the guy is a hippopotamus in an.
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  Speaker 1: Hospital he's reckless and he's.
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  Speaker 3: Dumb, Yeah so is there an opening date in?
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  Speaker 1: MIND i don't know of. ONE i, mean everything's now
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  Speaker 1: up in the. Air it's in. Limbo we were told
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  Speaker 1: that it was supposed to be happening a third QUARTER
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  Speaker 1: i believe of this year was supposed to be last,
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  Speaker 1: year was supposed to be a couple of years before,
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  Speaker 1: that so we've BEEN i don't think anyone here In
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  Speaker 1: windsor is expecting a firm date until it. Happens and
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  Speaker 1: right now we're in political diplomatic, talks so who knows.
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  Speaker 2: Yeap and Meanwhile canadian businesses suffer because.
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  Speaker 3: Of because Of trump, again what CAN i? Say? Hey,
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  Speaker 3: john great, Story thanks for digging up all these.
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  Speaker 1: FACTS i appreciate it, Absolutely thanks for having me Jam.
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  Speaker 2: All, right there we go Is John. Litkey he always
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  Speaker 2: drills down and gets some unknown facts of the. Story
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  Speaker 2: glad we had him on. Talking but that, Okay we'll
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  Speaker 2: take a bit of a