Gord Magill
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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And so I think what we've seen is that the results of a...
They tried to, in 1980, open up the market, right, in order to bring the same forces to North America.
So you can't ship the jobs away, so let's make it so that the jobs, you know, are more competitive in their speak.
So Motor Carrier Act of 1980 comes in, and the idea is that the previous...
regulatory framework for trucking, the old Motor Carrier Act, which had a regulated business, right?
So like you had to publish your rates.
It took a lot to actually get, you know, what you might call a taxi medallion.
Like you had to have authority to operate a trucking business that was controlled by the government.
They did have an argument that this was like it made things too expensive.
It was sort of a cartel.
Yeah.
But the reforms went so far in the other direction that basically anybody with $300 and a pulse could sign up to become a trucking company.
And the effects of that, which were brought by people who wanted free market reforms.
Free market.
Free markets.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, hey, man, who isn't?
The problem is this, is that since then- We didn't get free markets.
No, we did not.
And since then, they have asked the government to help them with the consequences of the reforms they asked for.
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