| Below: in part of a transcript from CFPL TV London (Inquiry, January 15, 1989), Fp Action Director Marc Emery debates with Jack Burghardt, Deputy Mayor, City of London and Mike Bradley, Mayor of Sarnia. |
Jack Burghardt: "You know what could happen Mr. Emery, is the fact that we here in London could close everything up --- your bookstore as well. You should perhaps feel pretty thankful right now that you're allowed to stay open, because we could clean up the whole thing." Marc Emery: "This is amazing! I'm asked to be grateful so I can exercise my own property rights peacefully and honestly. I think this is the ultimate corruption we see in our government today. Politicians think they're handing me a gift by allowing me to exercise the peaceful use of my property; my employees want to be there, my customers want to be there, I want to be there; everybody's happy but Mr. Burghardt." |
Mike Bradley: "Mr. Emery doesn't care about the people out there who are at the low end of the spectrum, who are suffering, who are suffering as retail workers, who are surviving on minimum wage. You don't seem to care about those people. We happen to because we have to deal with those people. We have to work with those people and represent those people. You do not represent the poor people who have to work for minimum wage, and they're the people who are going to suffer across this province in the next couple of years." Marc Emery: "I'm the person who pays these people. Without me, they don't have a job. Without you, they could still be employed. If you disappeared tomorrow, no jobs are going to dry up. With me gone, they dry up. And if I don't have the ability to meet the consumer on my terms, those jobs don't exist. And I resent you saying that somehow you help people! You don't!" |
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