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tonight Alec Baldwin now facing possible jail time after a deadly shooting on his movie set he was the actor that pulled the trigger what we know about the new charges he faces in a case that's already changing how movies are made Marketplace goes undercover in Mexico to find a Canadian pitching miracle cures with big price tags we can shut cancer down on one treatment we track him down back in Canada what do you say to those people who've died after spending thousands of dollars sir a rotting mess inside an abandoned Factory has a small town begging for help we can't even open our Windows this bed really bad now with CBC News investigation reveals what's inside could be dangerous this is this is not really this is the national with Chief correspondent Adrian Arsenault Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter and faces the possibility of jail more than a year after a deadly shooting on a film set that left the cast reeling and the entire movie industry shocked Baldwin was rehearsing onset in New Mexico back in 2021 when a prop gun he was holding went off cinematographer Helena Hutchins was shot and killed now 15 months later prosecutors say they're ready to charge Baldwin and he's not the only one Thomas dagla takes us through what we know tonight and how this case is driving changes in the film industry Alec Baldwin was the actor on set that pulled the trigger Alec Baldwin yes sir where's he at in the Frantic moments after the film set shooting here's how Alec Baldwin described his involvement were you in the room when the lady okay but now prosecutors are laying out a more damning version of events he was the actor that pulled the trigger so certainly he's he was charged as an actor but also as a producer he also had a duty to make sure that the the set was safe both Baldwin and weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez Reid are being charged with involuntary manslaughter all stemming from the death of cinematographer Helena Hutchins the charges suggest prosecutors have evidence the shooting on that New Mexico Ranch was an accident and the result of negligence and voluntary manslaughter is like making a mistake is not intentional but still serious because it's still an Act of Killing investigators found a real revolver on set and what appeared to be live rounds Baldwin's lawyer called the manslaughter charges a terrible miscarriage of Justice adding Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun the first uh rule of gun safety is to treat every gun as loaded and do not Point any firearm while gunfire remains a familiar sight on screen the movie said tragedy has pushed the industry to consider alternatives to real weapons says this longtime prop Master is more common than people think but we are seeing now where we're they're being written at a scripts we're using a lot of seats a lot more CGI gunfire now the family of the victim Helena Hutchins says it is a comfort that in New Mexico no one is above the law we support forth the charges if convicted the two accused could each face five years behind bars Thomas dag CBC News Toronto we have two exclusive investigations for you tonight starting with a Canadian man who calls himself a doctor and claims he can heal a variety of illnesses with expensive treatments and devices but many of his former followers say he misled them David Common a Marketplace tracked him down in Mexico where he's still seeing patience quite a tent at a budget Resort in Mexico this is touted as treatment on a healing fracture treatment targeting the desperate often with a big price tag crap look at this now the Canadian running this operation is Daryl wolf who claims cures for just about anything we can shut cancer down one treatment it's not the first time he's made bold claims all my clients have HIV and in 1994 we busted him for selling a fake age cure hi Mr Wolf though he claimed he wasn't he shut down the clinic and later moved his operation to Mexico where hundreds traveled to meet him in the hopes of being saved what did he promise you about Mexico he said that he had worked with this he worked with breast cancer Nancy Jacobs wanted alternative treatment she says she spent thirteen thousand dollars with wolf he didn't help total regret ever going there how could I be so foolish Nancy Jacobs died shortly after this interview Mr Wolf David Coleman with CBC Marketplace how are you today we caught up with Daryl wolf when he returned to Canada oh there are many claims that you've made about being able to cure cancer and a number we've recorded you we've recorded you doing that what do you say to those people who've died after spending thousands of dollars sir there is nobody that has with us after our investigation YouTube removed many of Wolf's videos Facebook launched a review but he continues to operate in Mexico drawing in clients and dollars so David with all this evidence why does wolf have so many followers and is anything happening to try to stop them yeah I mean all good questions but on the followers I think when you are desperate for something to be true it becomes true in your mind uh particularly if you are especially vulnerable if you have a lethal diagnosis there's also a great deal of misinformation that's out there he builds on that he has been cited for it Facebook once again saying they're going to put a review on because of this but as long as that keeps churning he will continue to have followers and those followers will continue to generate money for them David thank you for doing this thank you you can watch David's full investigation tomorrow on Marketplace that's at 8pm on CBC television 8 30 in Newfoundland or you can stream it on CBC Jam now to renewed calls for help in a Newfoundland town to clean up an abandon fish sauce plant here's why you're looking at cell phone video inside of the building the structure itself is deteriorating many ingredients have been left to rot for decades at one point seeping into the ocean but the site isn't just an eyesore it stinks tonight Rob antel uncovers new information sparking new concern a breathtaking view that can take your breath away quite literally we can't even open our windows it's bad really bad the smell is just unbearable this plant used to manufacture fish sauce it hasn't operated in about 20 years but Vats of the sauce have been fermenting ever since enveloping parts of the community in a foul odor perhaps worse than the smell lingering around town or the unanswered questions lingering too because we don't know what we're dealing with we've uncovered some old testing results that have sparked some new concerns about what's inside the abandoned plant behind me four years ago the CBC filed an access to information request now some answers and we're showing the town's mayor what we've learned once you get to have a look at that after reports of effluent flowing into the ocean in 2016 the federal environment Department swooped in they found that when fish were exposed to the substance it killed them within 15 minutes described as acutely lethal all this is news to the mayor I never came to the town to let us know how toxic this really is to fish and and the varmint like this is this is not right that leak was fixed but news of the test results has renewed concern well if it's killing fish what what's it doing to the people that's living here you know something got to be done my God Environment Canada says its responsibility was to protect the fish which it did when the pipe was sealed it steered questions about health and odor to the province who confirmed the town did put in a funding request for cleanup but that request did not meet the necessary criteria it adds the plant owner is responsible for cleanup but the company dissolved 17 years ago and the owner hasn't been heard from in years the mayor says it's time for action with those of us here now Mr skull and clean it up all levels of garbage let's work together get this get this done once and for all he says that's something the town of 309 people can't do on its own so Rob clearly this community is concerned and the mayor is asking for help we put this right to the premier today what did he say well he didn't provide any Concrete Solutions but he is committing to at least look for Solutions going forward well first of all let me sympathize with the residents who are impacted by the issue we're certainly willing to sit down with all different levels of government and agencies as you know it's not straightforward it's quite complex to seek resolutions now as for the federal government the local liberal MP says he's going to bring all this up with the environment minister in the meantime there's a meeting scheduled in St Mary's tomorrow the mayor expects basically the entire Community is going to be there all right Rob Benton St John's thank you Rob police in Quebec have now identified three people killed after an explosion at a propane distributor last week 26 year old Christoph parody was a subcontractor at the company in the town of San Rock de la chigong two 65 year old employees were also killed Celine pione and Franz de Rosier police announced Monday they recovered all three bodies the cause of that explosion is still under investigation the family of a man allegedly swarmed and killed by a group of teenage girls in Toronto last month is speaking out in a statement Ken Lee's loved ones called him a kind soul with a heart of gold regarding his alleged attackers who cannot be named under the youth criminal justice act these perpetrators should not have any privacy rights or bail the public should be aware of who these individuals are to protect themselves the girls accused in Lee's death are all between the ages of 13 and 60. Ottawa has agreed to bring a group of 19 women and children to Canada from detention camps in Syria the camps are for suspected Isis militants and their family members as Ashley Burke explains the agreement to repatriate such a large group is a major shift in policy it's a place the government didn't want to go Ottawa long argued these detention camps in northeastern Syria for Isis suspects and their families were too dangerous and diplomats couldn't go to bring Canadians back now that's changed I think this is long past due um definitely the right choice this National Security Law expert who's interviewed detained Canadians in Syria thinks Canada was forced to finally act there was significant pressure from the International Community um un and human rights organizations um on Canada and other countries especially the United States have been really pressuring its allies to start returning it's um its citizens Global Affairs Canada has now agreed to return 13 Canadian children and Six Women they were part of a group who took their case to Federal Court their lawyer had argued they were living in deplorable unsafe conditions they are uh understandably very very happy to have a light at the end of the tunnel before a judge could issue a decision in that case this new deal came out but it doesn't include everyone it leaves out four Canadian men one of those men is Jack Lentz he's accused of joining Isis and has been in detention for more than five years there was nothing presented in the record in federal court that showed that the men were more dangerous than the women nothing at all the concern from critics of the deal is that those brought back could evade Justice if they are tried here in Canada are we going to bring the witnesses over from Kurdistan are we going to bring the evidence over here and I think these trials are going to fail two women who Canada did repatriate last year were arrested after their plane touchdown on Canadian soil One released on a peace Bond the other facing terrorism-related offenses the lawyer representing the women who are coming home next says that he doesn't know what could happen and if any will face charges Ashley Burke CBC News Ottawa tonight marks one year since a tragedy along the Canada U.S border in Manitoba a family of four trying to cross illegally was found frozen to death as Karen Pauls tells us now while police in India have laid charges police here are still looking for answers here's the border right here it probably would have been yeah just over right right in this area here Sheriff Matthew Vig points to where his officers caught seven people after they walked illegally over the Canada U.S border one year ago it's urgent because we know a person's not going to survive too long out there in the cold so we try to you know get there as soon as we can not far away in a snow-covered Manitoba field RCMP discovered the frozen bodies of a couple from India and their two young children U.S officials have charged a Florida man with human smuggling this week police in India laid charges against two men believed to have helped the family get to Canada but RCMP officers still don't know who met the patels once they landed at Toronto's Pearson Airport and how they got to the Manitoba border they traveled 2 000 kilometers within Canada and just hoping that people will come forward because we know someone facilitated them someone saw them they stayed somewhere now a few new details about the timeline and a plea for tips January 14th to the 16th 2022 they were staying in the Mississauga area and the City of Welland Ontario you know sometimes when you talk about this your hearts are pumping the deaths continue to haunt people in Winnipeg's Gujarati Community who jumped in to translate and plan the Patel family's funeral people are still can't understand you know how it happened you know it was like even in this cold weather we don't like to stay outside how can you tell someone to go 30 below an experiential weather the RCMP say they believe the Patel's deadly Journey was a thought out and organized operation likely run by a human smuggling Network the relatives in India tell us they're still in mourning and haunted by their losses Karen Paul's CBC News Winnipeg in France unions are promising another Nationwide strike after more than a million people took to the streets today they're upset about plans to raise the age of retirement but as Abby kuathasen shows us they're not the only ones digging in tonight demonstrators in Paris met by a cloud of tear gas from police [Applause] hundreds of thousands of public sector workers walked off the job Nationwide to protest the government's proposed pension reforms this student says young people like her will be the first to feel the impact because there will be less opportunities if older workers stay in their jobs longer the strikes brought France to a near standstill trucks were backed up in the north as the ferry Crossing to Britain was closed and severe travel disruptions too in Paris almost no local or Regional trains were running at all still French president Emmanuel macron insists today this reform needs to be carried out the proposed bill would push the retirement age from 62 to 64 but it would also speed up another amendment only those who've worked at least 43 years will be able to collect a full pension that would leave some parents who took time to raise their children ineligible the public pension system is uh regularly in deficit starting next year it should be around 10 billions of euro per year the government says this is unsustainable because soon there won't be enough people working to support retirees but the unions argue the government has other options they call for taxing the super rich or asking employers to ramp up contributions he says their goal is to see the Reform Bill withdrawn the French government is promising to minimize Pain by raising the minimum pension and making it easier for people with physically demanding jobs to retire earlier but that hasn't stopped the widespread protests and the unions say this is just the beginning CBC News London some sad news from the music world tonight legendary musician David Crosby has passed away I am yours you are mine you are what you are the singer-songwriters storied career and his influence on Rock provinces are coming up with their own solutions for an ailing Health Care System we need to be bold we need to be Innovative could this put ottawa's funding at risk Rosie's here with that issue and the moment a Transit worker Springs to action to save a talk I recognize that the child was in distress we are back into away from the front lines in Ukraine and other fierce battle is Raging crews are tired tirelessly stitching a shattered electrical grid back together even as Russia continues to blast it apart and Chris Brown shows us in that fight Ukraine now has a chance to turn the tide ukrainians in dark and cities such as Charney heave now spend their nights living by flashlight the Russian barrage of attacks on Ukraine's energy grid have put repair Crews on a different kind of Front Line trying to repel the enemy's efforts to freeze ukrainians into submission the Russians are bombarding us at zerakudeshev we have to do the repairs to protect people since October Russia's missile Onslaught has incapacitated 50 percent of Ukraine's system from generating stations to substations to the transmission lines International Help has been pouring in this lighting Tower is one of 50 donated by the Canada Ukraine Foundation which is [Music] which assure the difficult job of repairing Ukraine's battered electrical system continues day and night the old portable lights we had weren't good enough said supervisor Alexander corrup intense repairs require sturdy lighting Towers people here have already endured a lot last March Russian forces made it to the outskirts of Charity heave which is only 50 kilometers from Belarus battle damage means a pedestrian bridge is the only way for many to get to their homes it's difficult cook food or to stay warm at home there's no stability it's very bad she said some days it's massive attacks what do we mean by Massive it's from 70 to 100 missiles at once Ukraine's energy Minister told us restoring the grid will take months but a bolstered air defense system is helping repair Crews catch up we see that the level of of this drones and missiles which was hit by by our different system is increased dramatically ukrainians have managed to beat back the cold and the Darkness but winter is only halfway done and the Russian missiles keep coming Chris Brown CBC News Journey Heath Washington announced another 2.5 billion
dollars in military gear for Ukraine including armored vehicles combined with announcements today from the European allies Ukraine is gaining a lot of advanced Mobility protection and Firepower for its troops that Aid to Ukraine is just part of the U.S government spending at the heart of a new political fight since the country hit its debt ceiling raising the borrowing limit needs bipartisan support Ken McIntosh shows us the dispute threatening Global Financial stability think of it like the US government increasing the limit on its credit card to pay bills coming due the Republican leader is saying that's what President Joe Biden wants warning if House Republicans don't go along they're going to shut down the government by not providing the votes to pay our federal debt but Republicans want future spending cuts before agreeing who wants to put the nation in some type of threat at the last minute to debt ceiling nobody wants to do that that's why we're asking less less change our Behavior now now sitting at 31.4 trillion with a t the U.S debt ceiling intended to limit
government borrowing has become more of a political lever raised 78 times since the 60s treasury secretary Janet Yellen says it must rise again or the U.S risks default later this year it's not dangerous at all so long as we resolve this in the next few months but says this economist if it drags to a default it would unleash a financial Chain Reaction Services cut employees unpaid and critically a treasury no longer able to pay interest on U.S bonds if suddenly it's not a safe asset that probably means almost every major country is going to have a recession we continue to watch that has the Prime Minister watch but we're going to make sure uh that Canadians continue uh to succeed regardless of what happens down there in Washington politics will have to play out first new GOP house Speaker Kevin McCarthy has little leeway with Republicans demanding Cuts loudly on Fox News if you're going to have a party you have to pay the band if you're going to borrow money you have to pay it back as the White House insists bills must be paid it should not be used as a political football tense but the U.S has been here many times before I think the saying is Americans always do the right thing when they run out of all the other options it's just the faith in and the credit of the country at stake with no quick resolution in sight at least not until both the money and the pressure get tighter Cameron McIntosh CBC News Washington a legendary American singer-songwriter a giant of the Woodstock generation has died David Crosby worked with some of Rock's biggest names of our nation we are the stars [Music] Crosby first rose to fame over six decades ago with folk rock band The Birds before joining the group he'd become most famous for Crosby Stills and Ash and young became one of the most influential bands of its generation though internal tensions LED them to break up several times over the years through it all Crosby kept playing writing and touring sometimes with his band mates sometimes on his own a prolific musician David Crosby released dozens of albums over those six decades his wife confirmed his death after a long illness to variety magazine saying his legacy will continue to live on through his legendary music after the break Rosie's here with that issue hey Rosie hi Adrian tonight we're going to talk about that Health Care deal between Ottawa and the provinces the one yet to come and why some provinces are moving ahead with their own Solutions the status quo is no longer acceptable we need to be bold we need to be Innovative we need to be creative so how creative should provinces be and will more money fix the problem Chantal Althea Andrew and Emily Nicola will join me to talk about that and [Music] hi there I'm Rosemary Barton here's what's at his shoe this week the Prime Minister says he hopes there will be good news on the health care front soon say in Ottawa and the provinces are all very much on the same page there is a need for more money there is a need for more delivery of results for families meanwhile provinces are coming up with their own Solutions Ontario announced it will expand the number of surgeries in for-profit clinics the status quo is no longer acceptable we need to be bold we need to be Innovative we need to be creative so is more money from Ottawa the solution part of the solution should provinces be willing to use private facilities to help alleviate the strain let's bring in our panelists chantali bear Andrew Coyne uh Althea Raj and joining us this week Emily Nicola from the devoir good to see everybody appreciate you being here um I think there's two things going on this week There's the Ontario announcement around use of uh for pro for-profit clinics and then there's the idea that a healthcare deal seems to be possible now so um Andrew I'll throw it to you first and see where you want to start maybe on the Ontario aspect and whether that seems like a reasonable solution or or not I think it's a reasonable solution it's a limited and imperfect solution but I think it's part of a broader agenda reform that has to happen and it's encouraging to see people at least approaching this subject you know there are legitimate concerns and illegitimate concerns if it's just a knee-jerk reaction to oh a private Clinic for-profit um I think people need to get over themselves doctors are private for-profit businesses already they don't seem to have destroyed the system from from their involvement there are concerns I think that are more legitimate to do with Will these clinics be able to attach uh or to offer other services that do charge a fee and if they do does that become a kind of disguised user fee if they make them conditional you know conditional on access that they have to order these Services that's a legitimate concern to look after I think it's you know at least plausible to ask about the the diversion of Staff question although if they're providing service for free to the public I'm not sure I'm that exercise about that it's just moving from one section of the healthcare system to another so there are these things these questions that are worth asking none of them sound to me like the kinds of risks that can't be mitigated it can't be guarded against and certainly the last question I want to ask is is this just simply adding resources to the system and in other words how are these going to be allocated on what basis do these private connects get this business or is there some provision going to be built in where they're competing with the public hospitals right what we really need is is not so much more money going to the system although maybe that's useful at this time but getting more bang for the buck from the ones we are the dollars we are spending and competition has to be part of that and certainly provinces are all looking at all kinds of different solutions we saw some announcements from Nova Scotia this week to deal with its ER but but I mean is the money factor that the big missing piece there Chantal or or do all these things sort of have to be on the table at the same time well money alone isn't going to resolve so they the so-called Health Care crisis so you can we've been throwing money at the system for more than a decade and here we are talking about worse shortages and worse wait times than we did when uh more money was within the system so clearly and without thinking that the Doug Ford has landed the magic recipe clearly a lot more changes are going to be happening and provinces will be experimenting with a variety of options and I think on that front the time is ripe as for private you know pharmacists are doing more and more of the handing out prescriptions for a variety of of issues where you would have to go through a doctor in the past pharmacist last time I checked do not work as public service employees they they run for-profit uh pharmacies so somewhere somehow there this will be experimented I'm guessing the proof will be in the pudding will it make the situation better the system more efficient will people get care in a timely fashion those questions uh cannot be answered without some attempt at doing things differently than the things that haven't worked over the past two decades um so I think my colleagues have done a good job of laying out the problem I will say I think there are legitimate concerns to be voiced in the sense that you don't create nurses and doctors out of thin air especially nurses and there are legitimate concerns about if you start operating for-profit surgeries that you know might pay nurses more are they more likely to leave the public system and then are you leaving the public system that isn't alert even more in alert and what does that mean for more complicated surgeries for emergency room wait times etc etc but to bring it back to the politics of it the one thing that I thought was really striking this week was how the Prime Minister was incredibly muted in his criticism of the deal this is a leader that has fancied himself to be pretty much on the center left of the political spectrum and here is an issue that speaks to a lot of progressive Canadians about you know their core identity as a Canadian wrapped around Public Health Care and the prime minister uses the words like Innovation he describe that as Doug Ford is innovating in an interview with my colleague Susan delacort that you know he could have just said nothing he could have said oh well I think there are concerns to be raised about this or I'm waiting to see something along these lines he said nothing and as far as I'm told it has nothing to do with the negotiations with the premiers this is the prime minister himself choosing not to wade into that and this is a giant opportunity for jagmeet Singh who has been dying to try to find a way to distinguish himself from the liberal leader finally Mr Singh has an issue that clearly shows a divide between the NDP and the Liberal Party Emily it's interesting we're talking about you know is this the right solution for for the problem and we all have our our perspective of what the problem but the problem is but we haven't had a a conversation a space to actually take a step back from the pandemic and be looking at you know what the problem actually is in our in our in our health care System the the conservative position in Ottawa have called in the past for an inquiry into you know the pandemic and what happened then there's been that as well in Ontario but what what happens now is that we we haven't had a step back from the the crisis mode of managing the the pandemic and as a result of that we see the system that the Healthcare System crumbling in Ontario and other parts of the country as well we're having this conversation through the negotiation of the health transfers we're having this conversation through some premieres including the Ontario Premiere but also at the premieres announcing more space for the private sector but the the there hasn't been a space a formal space for example for experts to weigh in and see this is where we should be taking our our Public Health Care Systems across Canada we haven't had a space except for journalists you know reaching out to doctors and and doctors then giving interviews in terms of what's the problem on the ground there hasn't been also a lot of space for people Beyond doctors who are in the Health Care system to formally be able to say this is our experience this is what we think the problem is and then we're already into solution modes and we we think that the solution mode is is private so I think there needs to be a step taken back I'm not saying it's likely going to happen soon yeah but I'm saying that see that's this the piece that seems to be missing from this conversation Chantel that Andrew yeah except that I could point my finger if I kept all those reports to an entire bookshelf of reports that identify the issues that are today the problem these are not new problems way back when Paul Martin negotiated a 10-year Accord in 2004 not enough Home Care Credit which is crowding the public system that should be used for other purposes there's a long list and you can find a solution that suits you going through this because it covers the full range of what people could do including more private input so I would caution having lived through that era that again appointing some commission somewhere in some provinces and federally takes two or three years which by then we'll add more books to that shelf that I keep at home but but the other thing that that the Prime Minister said in that interview uh with Susan Dela Court Althea and I'll get you to weigh in on this Andrew is that he he's happy to see 13 provinces and territories try different things to quote unquote innovate like he wants them to try and experiment to fix things as though this is going to play out in real time these Solutions it's a marked difference from the tone the Prime Minister took as recently as the last election when if you'll recall he did campaign quite shamelessly against any suggestion of private involvement in the system so it's welcome to see that that changing it's I think that's partly reflection that this is where the center of gravity of public opinion I think is now people are perhaps ahead of the political class to that extent nobody wants to see or not many people anyone want to see user fees but private involvement in a publicly funded system strikes me as being perfectly reasonable and I agree with Chantal there has to be room for not just experimentation but for failure for making mistakes uh 30 seconds to Althea on the one hand the Prime Minister has a fine line to walk because Quebec has private clinics British Columbia has private clinics like he can't come out full-on assaults but he can raise concerns about the values that he has spent the last election campaigns is spousing and I guess that was my original point it is really noteworthy that he chose not to go there okay we're going to take a short break we'll be back with another round of at issue pierpolio of his touring Quebec after recent polls showed support for the conservative leader is lacking will it work this tour that's next on the national foreign [Music] conservative leader Pierre puelev is touring Quebec the conservative leader is doing what others before him have tried to do win over a Battleground province that could determine the next election his message he respects Quebec's autonomy but also think quebecers care about the same things as everyone else inflation and government spending so what's to be made of polio's tour of Quebec and will he be able to win over support in an area that has sometimes proven difficult for conservatives let's bring everyone back Chantal Althea Andrew and Emily Nicola Chantal I'm going to start with you and then Emily you can jump in Chantal is this um is this a lost Endeavor from the get-go is there hope here for the conservatives and Mr cuelliev well uh he he didn't take off in a positive manner in Quebec after the leadership campaign and the numbers uh speak to that this this is the province where people the most people have a poor impression of Pia poliev and our Ed shows and the the voting intentions and some polls the conservatives are down to 17 another posts are around their usual score to put a bluntly non-kebec leaders have tended to do poorly in Quebec none no non-cabec leader has ever won Quebec except for Jack Leighton and Jack Layton did something that Pierre would need to do I he found Thomas malcare and that gave his party more credibility suddenly people gave him a second look because he'd found someone who people considered a solid politician from Quebec to give his party an identity but if he's counting on just himself and his rhetoric I think against uh if Francois Blanche and Justin Trudeau because remember Justin Trudeau is a Quebec leader who is facing off against the conservative leader who on his way to his position walked all over jeans a former Quebec Premier and lost his most likable Quebec Lieutenant so in this province that's who Pierre qualiev is the guy who doesn't like Quebec political Talent Emily um Japan is not very well known here yet there's a lot of people of course in the rest of the country who's been following his career at the House of Commons for for years and but the coverage of the national the House of Commons in Quebec in general tends to be um not take as much space and so the first impression we had one of the first times that he he made really the headlines here as Chantelle was just mentioning was for uh that those robocalls essentially he made to some of the constituents in the writing of Ale Reyes and so um that story is basically how he entered everyone's imagination however if Francois Blanchette who is the one person he would mostly be running against but it's not like Blanchette has had an amazing year as well so that also factors in the potential that priev has for growth Althea I think it was column pointed out that in English read survey he's at 44 of quebecers who have a very negative view of him so his charm event if he's doing you know while he may not be doing it in the rest of the country he was doing lots of local media National media he's trying to shape and change the image that people already have in their mind as Mindy was talking about it's interesting to note that he's meeting with a round that he met with round tables of women women who suffered from domestic violence he carefully has a woman problem this is one way to approach it I thought it was really interesting in his conversation with Patrick the clip that you just aired where he talked about you know respecting Quebec's autonomy because the one thing that is going to cause him a bit of a pickle frankly and I'm sure the blackie bequa is going to be reminding quebecers of this is Mr padiev has changed his tune on Bill 21 which is not Mr Shearer's position it wasn't Mr O'Toole's position he supports or has said that he's not going to change the federal government's course if it decides to appeal the law now to the Supreme Court he seems to be walking that back a little but on on that question on abortion on climate change these are all things where he is he and the people who support him and that is key the caucus that dumped O'Toole and decided to backpure poliev very much do not have values and policies that align with the majority of quebecers so that will cause him a problem Andrew I agree that Mr player has a very much an uphill climb in Quebec partly for his own personal reasons partly because of the stances his party has taken on things like guns or climate change but let's get real there's only been two conservative leaders since the 1890s that have carried Quebec uh you know so basically if you're a conservative leader you have two options you can lose in Quebec but preserve your dignity and your self-respect and some kind of coherent message for the country as a whole or or you can Pander shamelessly to every Quebec nationalist wish list sell your soul and still lose your deposit the past couple of conservative leaders took option b it may be that PR probably ever will take option A I think he'd be better advised to do so I think Stephen Harper showed you can win the country without winning a whole lot of seats in Quebec the numbers didn't used to be there but if you put together a majority in Ontario and the rest of the west of Canada you can and secondly you don't need to win a lot of seats in Quebec you just need to be respectable there to get Ontario to win season Ontario and if you win enough seats in Ontario Quebec will start to give you a look very quickly Chantal except that as opposed to Stephen Harper Pierre as an Ontario problem and it's called Doug Ford by the time the next election comes around chances are the conservatives are not going to be very popular eventually and ask Paul Martin how much it cost him when Dalton McGinty was imposing a health Debbie and there was a federal campaign on so yes Andrew is totally right but I'm not so sure that the prospects of a big win in Ontario are as great under a conservative government in Ontario as they were for Harper when the Liberals were in power at Queen's Park 20 seconds to you Emily and I gotta go uh there's a lot of ontarians who know Pierre perev already and a lot of them have decided to dislike them so changing that opinion is is harder it doesn't mean that it would be hard that would be easy for him to change their mind it's just that it's it's uh is she's starting from more of a negative um perception in Ontario than in Quebec where there's often no perception at all okay I gotta leave it there the conversation everybody appreciate it now let me send things back to Adrian in Toronto thanks Rosie after the break not all heroes wear capes bystanders were mentioning that a child was choking how this Transit worker saved a toddler's Life In Our Moment the man in the middle there Ben Curtin is being hailed a hero today after he saved a child from choking the Toronto Transit Supervisor was working an ordinary day when anything but began to unfold that without hesitation he sprang to action his life-saving deed is Our Moment I'm just glad I was there at the right place at the right time as usual I'm working my Coxwell shift here the train pulls in alarm activation on board the train the scene is chaotic it was a big commotion with previous background as a paramedic and recent training with TTC uh first aid training I recognized that the child was in distress more so respiratory distress also bystanders we're mentioning that a child is choking I helped a child and then perform First Take procedures which included some backflows to help relieve the obstruction at that point uh some of the obstructions were free and the child started breathing again color was good I'm proud it's it's a good feeling just even today being recognized by McCleary and the executive and the board it was a good feeling yeah I'm proud I'm proud to spend there at the right time at the right place and yeah no kidding right time right place right man what a moment well we're talking moments here's another one a beautiful human being Named Dave berhubay who is our floor director is retiring today it's his last day he's standing right there as he has been for more years and he'd like me to tell you right now Dave of the golden voice and the big heart we will miss you we thank you my pal that is a national for January the 19th thank you for being with us have a good night [Music] thank you [Music]
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