James Moore
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3,438 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
James Moore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Uh when I was in government just over a decade ago, when I was minister of industry, you'll remember in you know 2013, 2014, we had the famous uh wireless war.
wars with TELUS Bell and Rogers and the big three in the telecommunications industry because it was at the time it was seen that uh wireless rates were unaffordable and unfair.
We didn't have sufficient competition.
That was an affordability issue.
And then here we are a decade later and all kinds of issues of affordability are raised, but not that, because on that issue, the cost of wireless uh coverage for the vast majority of Canadians has gone way down.
Services have gone way up.
So, yeah, the the issue of affordability is kind of everywhere at all times because politicians have gotten smart enough to know, including Donald Trump, have gotten smart enough to know that you can't convince the public that they're not experiencing what they're experiencing.
And the public is clearly experiencing uh a gap between the cash that they're earning in their jobs and the cash they're spending on a daily basis.
And these two lines are not meeting up.
Stuff is getting more expensive, whether it's gas, food, mortgage costs, daily costs, you know, cost for clothing, whatever, going out for a meal, things are costing more and my paycheck isn't catching up.
We will call that the affordability crisis.
And it's it's presenting itself differently in different parts of North America and the world.
Uh but the politics of it is real.
Uh well an unsatisfying an unsatisfying answer would be depends on where you are in Canada.
Um, you know, here in British Columbia we've been wrestling with this issue for a long time, in part because
The the city of Vancouver, you know, two-thirds of British Columbians or more than that live in Lower Mainland in Vancouver.
Uh one third live outs outside of Lower Mainland.
And the Lower Mainland of Vancouver is bracketed by the coastal range of the mountains.
And so we have less land.
We also have the um Aboriginal uh Aboriginal uh the agricultural land reserve in in the lower mainland.
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