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Newstalk Tonight's The Rundown with Jon Liedtke and Mark Mendelson - April 9, 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 Iharm Radio Talk Network. It is the iHeartRadio Talk Network. Motional end
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  or who's an economist will join us? Kind of no, fully join us,
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  not kind of join us in a half an hour here on the iHeart
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  Talk Radio Network on whether or not the liberals can be promising like a billion
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  dollars a day to keep carbon tax talk away or to set us up for
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  the budget. It is a good way to roll out a budget in that
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  every plank in that budget is getting a day and a press conference. Where
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  is in the past everything was you know, kept close to the vest and
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  they didn't necessarily talk about it until that day and everybody was overwhelmed trying to
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  go through the budget and lockdown and figure out what they wanted to talk about
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  that day, and it was lost in the news cycle. But I digest.
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  Let's get in to it. It is our rundown. We have Mark
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  Mendelssohn host and a proud commissioner of Mark Madness. We crowned a winner last
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  night. If you weren't listening, you can go back and listen yesterday Our
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  two and just towards the end of our two the culmination of Mark Madness.
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  Mark, thank you very much for your time, my pleasure. Jim John
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  Lidkey joins us as well. He is a radio host in Windsor and a
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  podcaster. You can check out his podcast is called Cavetch John. Thank you
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  very much for your time, Thank you for having me. We later in
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  the show, we'll do an interview with somebody who's a spokesperson from the Insurance
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  Bureau of Canada. I basically my first question to her where is I don't
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  have her reaction queued up? Can you get her a reaction queued up for
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  me? My first question to her was if I was driving like this,
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  how much would that be? That was her answer. But Mark, you're
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  a cop. We're addressing this issue of and I think every city right across
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  Canada has this culture to a certain extent, a culture that I'm sorry,
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  I know I see it in the movies, but I'm daft when it comes
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  to seeing the cool in any of the like you know, I don't know
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  it's dudes doing burnouts or doing like maybe a race on a street that's not
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  very well inhabited. But what this turns out to be in the city of
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  Lawn, just outside of Toronto. For people who did not know, is
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  that people have these like little car rallies and they do these burnouts, but
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  a bunch of people I don't know are drinking selling stuff. It's just you
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  know, a lot of garbage, noise of like at two o'clock in the
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  morning, you get woken up because some dude is like burning out and all
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  of these other people are like clapping. By the way, if you're a
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  part of this subculture, I'd love to hear from you, because I know
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  it sounds like I'm being really mean to you, but like, help me
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  understand it. Seven ten ten on text if you are mark your thoughts,
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  well, these aren't just crowds. These are massive crowds. And for some
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  reason, and I don't know why, York region, which as you said,
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  is just north of Toronto, seems to be the mecca for this.
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  And what you have as groups of two, three, sometimes four hundred people
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  showing up at a parking lot in a mall in the middle of the night.
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  Out comes the beer, outcomes what else you know, coolers who knows
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  and these guys are showing up with their souped up Honda Civics and other little
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  cars that they have just completely tricked out with you know, you know,
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  high performance tires, a muffler that you can hear seventy miles away. They
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  have you know, gear on them that flames will come out of the mufflers
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  and they all stand around and these guys race around. They they do spinouts,
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  They make a whole heck of a lot of noise. They're selling merchandise
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  and they start doing these figuring donuts because these are empty malls at the time,
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  and they are coming so close to the people that are watching this.
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  I'm talking about literally feet away. And there's been lots of occasions where people
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  have been hit and is it going to take a murder or you know,
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  you know, a tragic death, you know, through some circumstance that's going
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  to turn this into another situation. So now the Mayor of Vaughan, mister
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  del Duka, has instituted by laws, Okay, it's not a criminal charge,
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  not a provincial, a by law in New York Region with fines essentially
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  up to ten thousand dollars for these idiots that are doing this. Because if
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  you ever you can YouTube it. These are massive crowds of idiots and they're
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  cheering on and they're getting drunk in of course they got to get home someway,
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  and a lot of them are drunk when they're going home too. Yeah,
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  somebody's going to get hurt. I'm glad to do something about it.
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  Well, it's first of all, I would not feel bad if they hit
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  them with ten thousand dollars. Fine, But on top of that, good
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  luck with your insurance because at that age it's probably pretty high, and it's
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  probably gonna double a triple after that, and hopefully you're not on rich mom
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  and dads. For rich mom and Dad's sake, you're hopefully not on their
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  insurance. John. You know, we saw a lot of this with COVID
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  when there was nothing to do and at night people would meet up. And
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  this is a culture that seemingly has evolved beyond this man. You know,
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  I've posted on the radio vall it's not a good word on this one,
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  butos not maybe not. But I've had people comment and saying, you know,
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  this is why we used to have dragstrips in the cities that we could
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  go to. Well, you know that time doesn't quite exist, especially with
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  mass litigation, but with massive crowds like this, it's disturbing. The piece
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  I think to Windsor and the blockade specifically, and how we've had vehicles sort
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  of morphing from you know, being things that we use to get from A
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  to B to becoming center focal points of rallies like this, to becoming participants
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  of protests. And we don't have inherent rights to use vehicles in this way.
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  So it's not surprising to me to see municipalities try to stomp down on
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  this kind of thing, because, as Mark was saying, you know,
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  the risk is very high. I don't know how you said how you police
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  this stuff either. I would think that the police would kind of be onto
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  it and would be able to show up at some mall parking lot where this
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  is going on. But the police are saying that they'll notify everyone that's involved.
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  They're all on maybe an Instagram page, and they'll say, hey,
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  we have to pack up, we have to get out of the cops are
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  coming, or something like that, and they'll show up at some other mall.
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  But I don't know how you couldn't just barricade all of the exits and
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  start asking for driver's licenses. Mark Man. Well, see the problem,
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  Jim is that these things they're very ad hoc. They're very very ad hocs.
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  So what you have is some kind of social media posting saying at seven
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  o'clock at night, it starts scrambling police. These are bylaws. Are you
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  going to start getting by law enforcement officers out there? I don't think so.
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  But there's also another little tool in the box, and it's called dangerous
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  driving under the Criminal Code, and it doesn't matter whether it's on private property
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  or not. So it's a question of resources to chase these people around,
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  because if they find out there's cops out there and York Regionals got their little
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  helicopter in the air, they're going to pick up and move somewhere else.
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  And of course when the police show up, they scattered like rats. And
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  how we hour the police are to be expected to chase down hundreds of people
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  in the middle of the night. It's not really feasible. So part of
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  its education, part of it as parents saying to their kids, where are
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  you going to two o'clock in the morning. Can you explain that to me?
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  Please? You know, all kinds of responsibility that can't just fall on
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  the lapse of the police. Let's move along the driver of the truck involved
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  in the Humboldt bus crash that killed sixteen, the heartbreaking story that captured the
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  hearts and imaginations of Canadians from coast to coast. The individual who was driving
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  that truck will be deported unless something happens. It's not basically there's going to
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  be a hearing. But usually if the box is checked that you've committed a
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  crime when you are in the process of becoming a Canadian citizen, there's not
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  really any way you can fight that. But I was shocked that one of
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  the fathers, Scott Thomas, and I don't know if I have time to
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  play this right now, I don't was very simpathy athetic. And I want
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  to ask you, guys, if you think that perhaps the rules should be
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  changed or bent for this individual. Does he really need to be deported?
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  I think there are I'm shocked at how many people would give him an opportunity
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  to live in Canada given what he has done. We'll get back to that
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  in a second. I'm Jim Richards. This is the rundown on the iHeart
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  Talk radio network. Welcome back to news Talk tonight with Jim Richards on the
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  iHeartRadio Talk Network. This is the iHeart Talk Radio Network. Hello everyone,
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  I am Jim Richards and Justin Aside. Something that we're not going to get
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  into but will be interesting to keep on your radar. Fords More, the
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  Prime Minister is going to be in front of the foreign interfering in hearings.
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  The Prime Minister's office earlier today refuted allegations against hand On, the former Liberal
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  MP at the Foreign interference inquiry. They were told by some of the staffers
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  that Trudeau was not briefed on some of the foreign interference concerns about the election
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  in twenty twenty one. Here is Katie Telford on what they did or did
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  not do given their ability, as I mean in an election. They're just
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  a political party. They are not the people who would be filing any complaints
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  or they're doing anything. Well wait a second, you're not the advisor to
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  the leader of the Liberal Party. You're the advisor to the Prime Minister.
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  Our ability and our knowledge of that threat is growing, and as are the
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  capabilities of those who seek to disrupt and to interfere, and I would say
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  government has not yet taken all the actions, because in fact, this is
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  an area where the policy approach of the government and the tool of the government
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  has evolved. So it'll be interesting to see what the Prime Minister says tomorrow
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  when he is in front of the Foreign Interference Committee, and not to take
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  not to give him any slack, but whenever we've talked to any of these
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  security analysts, they've all said, yeah, this has been a problem for
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  a long time, doesn't matter who is in charge. So we'll be watching
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  that tomorrow. Let's get back to what we were talking about just before the
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  break, and that is whether or not the individual who is driving the bus
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  that killed sixteen back in twenty eighteen, who was sentenced to eight years in
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  prison, now he was becoming a Canadian. And because when you're in the
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  process of becoming a Canadian, he if you are convicted of a criminal offense,
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  you are not allowed to finish your finish the graduation to becoming a Canadian.
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  So there were a lot of people who think that he should be able
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  to stay. But it seems like an automatic check even though he has ligned
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  up this appeal that will happen in May. Some of the parents for the
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  victims, Scott Thomas is one. They lost their son in the act.
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  Terrible tragedy, and they actually don't think that the truck driver should be sent
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  back home. We've advocated for him to stay. And you know, initially
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  our reaction was that the law, you know, was written up for violent
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  offenders, and I understand that, and certainly this tragedy there was a lot
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  of loss of life, you know, our son, Evan being one of
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  the women. But I don't think that was ever mister Sedu's intent. And
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  you know, unfortunately for him, like I said, it's the law and
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  what he was sentenced with and convicted of falls within those parameters. You know,
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  while I feel sad for mister that he has to leave, you know,
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  for our family, we're just going to continue going forward. Sixteen dead,
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  thirteen others injured. That appeal do you think Mark, that it should
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  rain well, I mean, it's a tragic event, you know that just
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  goes without saying it impacted, you know, the family impacted, that community
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  obviously had killed many many hockey players and support staff, and what it's done
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  to to everybody, and just think about even places like Toronto in New Zoland.
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  People were putting hockey sticks by their front doors because it was such a
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  moving moment for all of us. Having said all that, I'm going to
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  give him credit for a couple of things. Number One, he pled guilty.
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  He didn't have a trial. He forced these parents to have tapped,
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  to sit and listen to the evidence, to see autopsy photographs, and all
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  these other things. He pled guilty, and he played guilty at the first
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  reasonable opportunity. He wasn't convicted of im pair driving, he wasn't convicted of
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  a tempt murder and things of that nature. As the dad said, yeah,
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  I mean, it's a horrible, horrible accident that had criminal consequences,
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  and he did his time. He did all of the time that he was
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  required to by federal law. So part of me says, you know what,
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  there's a lot worse criminals out there. I can think of people I
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  arrested and put in jail, you know, for second degree murder, you
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  know, for eighteen nineteen years that were on deportation orders and they're still here
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  because they're still working the system and milking the system and you know, to
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  try and stay you know, in Canada. So part of me and I'm
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  torn about this because I understand the detestation part of me says, you know
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  what, if somebody's going to have to pay a price, he did it,
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  and he paid the full price, and it's not going to happen again
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  from him. He's not going to go out as a gang banger might and
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  shoot other people and continue to sell drugs and kill people that I don't think
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  that's going to happen. So whether the Immigration Review Board is going to have
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  some leniency in the way they view this, I don't know. I don't
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  have a lot of faith in the meter quite frankly, with this process.
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  It could keep at it for quite a while. But do you think you
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  should be able to stay John? Yeah, you know, without reiterating too
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  much about what Mark said here, this is just this is a terrible,
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  terrible accident, and he's done his service. He pled guilty, he was
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  granted full parole. But the law is the law. But let me tell
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  you one thing right now, Okay, I look at this situation just trying
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  to do what we do here, you know, on the radio, and
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  synthesize thoughts and try to put it all together. And I look at the
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  situation where we had that jury here in Windsor finding Nathaniel Veltman guilty of those
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  four counts of first degree murder and the one count of attempted murder when he
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  deliberately drove and struck that Muslim family in London. If there's one person I
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  would like to see removed from our country, if I had to choose out
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  of these two, it would be that guy. So I get that the
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  law is the law. But when we're talking about this tragic situation right here
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  with mister Sidhu, he didn't intend for it. He did his time,
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  he pleaded guilty, was granted full parole. If there could be leniency,
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  I say, let it happen. But I also understand that to uphold the
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  integrity of our entire system, that probably wouldn't be the most fair thing.
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  Does anybody think the jug Meat Singh's idea of an excess profit tax is a
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  good idea that he told a television station just in Hamilton. Actually, chcach,
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  we look at previous years and the average of what a company has made,
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  factor in some growth, and what is well and above that we would
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  consider excess profits. There are other countries that have done so, They've used
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  different ways. It's mostly talking about grocery store chains, but ultimately we want
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  to get at the fact that if corporate grocery stores like the lah Blah Sobis
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  and Metro which are making record profits while people can't buy at groceries, that
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  is a that is a there's something wrong with that picture, and we want
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  to go after that problem. And so our line is, let's put an
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  excess profit tax on those companies. Let's go after that greed and reinvest the
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  revenue that we get from that back into people by increasing the GSE rebates one
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  tool helping with food bat It sounds like he's almost saying that it would be
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  like the carbon tax rebate, that you would get the money back because they're
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  going to pay it in tax, but you're also going to get the sticker
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  shock of you know, you would have to pay for it. It would
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  be something that you would have to pay for when you were at the checkout.
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  They're not going to pay an access profit tax and not pay it off
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  to the customer even if they got it back in a GST rebate. The
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  way people feel about that is the reaction to the sticker shock when they're getting
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  their debit card or credit card out. Mark, Well, who's going to
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  be the one to determine what access profit is, mister Singh, I certainly
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  hope not. I mean, look at they brought all the all the big
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  execs from all of the all the different food you know, the Sobey's and
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  the law Laws, brought them all. The Ottawa gave them a big spanking
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  and said, okay, you guys, behave and come back and tell us
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  what you're going to do to fix this problem. And of course nothing happened
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  with that either. And now we have, you know, a member of
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  the opposition saying, well, you know what, we were going to tax
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  excess profit? Who picks that number? And what if it's just not law
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  Laws and Toby's and Metro and everything else. What do they say? How
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  about Ford? How about how about the guy that sells Tesla? Was around
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  the corner? We think he's making too much money as well? Where does
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  this computers test? They? Yeah, exactly, you know all of that.
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  I mean Apple, their product, their products are arguably just as good
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  as any other companies, but people are paying for the name. Should you
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  be able to do that? John, Well, listen, I don't this
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  whole idea of excess profits. We will have to figure out exactly how that's
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  going to be set. My question for the leader of the NDB party would
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  be, what's the excess profits of the private school that he went to where
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  annual tituition today is somewhere between twenty six thousand to thirty four thousand dollars US,
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  Like, what's the excess level there? How do you determine that which
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  corporations, which industries are the good ones that we give a you know,
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  a look the other way to which ones are the bad ones. I don't
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  like this. If you want to go raising taxes on corporations, do so,
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  but trying to pick opponents to attack in a way that is going to
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  ideally deflect from the fact that you're propping up the current government right now and
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  you're part of the problem that you're decrying. I don't have time for this
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  nonsense. It's funny like the guy who is the little speaking for the little
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  guy, wants an excess profit tax as he checks his time on his rolex.
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  As Jerry said earlier today on the Toronto station, guys, thank you
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  very much for time. Mark Mendelssohn as a crime specialist here on News talksin
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  and John Lydkey is a radio host and podcast host in Windsor. You can
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  check out his podcast. It's called Cavetchime. And Jim Richards, we'll talk
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  to him an economists straight ahead, How the heck do we pay for all
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  of Trudeau's promises? Next? On the iHeart Talk radio network