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Mark Grimes

Canadian Politician

Jun 16, 2026

86:41
And these guys, Dotson, his brother, went to Pensauken.
86:44
Listen, here's the bottom line.
86:46
I was introduced to Wes about 20 years ago.
86:49
He's one of my dear friends.
86:52
I had many dinners with him and basketball camps and Leon.
86:57
They should do a movie on these two.
86:59
I'm being serious.
87:54
Is that so wrong?
2:53
Yeah.
2:53
But, um, uh, CSA Canada Soccer, we, we were, we had to get this, uh, get this interest in to FIFA that we were interested in hosting, and that meant the three levels of government.
3:02
So there's no, there's no commitment from on the funding point, but we had to get a letter into, uh, Trudeau's hand.
3:07
So I had to get to my good friend, James Maloney, um, who's a member of parliament but one of my best friends.
3:12
I had to get him a letter to get into Trudeau's hand, so he had it on his radar screen for, for Canada Soccer.
3:17
But then I had to take MLSE up to see Doug Ford, who was the premier at the time, to, uh, kind of brief him on, you know, what was going on.
3:24
So we went to see Doug, who's a, a, obviously, a good friend of mine, and we, you know, MLSE had this big proposal.
6:57
Yes, yes
13:43
And that's, you think re- because, uh, it's a phenomenon because of, like, the reliant on public transport?
13:47
Well, transit, so again, the jobs that come with so these big cities, you need, you know, people to work in the restaurants and, uh, you know, from the service industry to the dishwashers.
13:55
And I, I always say when I was in, in politics, you know, you know, we have to make it affordable.
13:59
You, you, a guy, you can't have a guy come, you know, five miles to come and, and wash dishes in, in downtown Toronto or downtown New York.
14:06
Can't afford it.
14:07
Can't afford to take the transit.
14:08
So they have to live, and that's why you need affordable housing to make the cities work, right? So, you know, historically, it's been Democrat run, very left-leaning in, in the cities.

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speaker_4UNKNOWN
113:54
It's not funny.

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