BLUE RODEO’S JIM CUDDY SAYS CANADA SHOULD SHARE ITS PROSPERITY BETTER
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he co-front man for one of Canada’s greatest bands, Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo, says people are born into economic and social circumstances that either shows a wide horizon before them, or a small horizon – and when it’s small, it’s “suffocating.” The singer spoke to The Lindsay Advocate from St. John, New Brunswick, while on tour with the Jim Cuddy band to promote his recent solo album. Blue Rodeo is performing in Lindsay on March 22 at the Academy Theatre in support of Women’s Resources. In a wide-ranging discussion of social issues, he says he doesn’t buy the stereotype about low income people being lazy. “People who are lower income often don’t know doctors and lawyers and other people who could make a difference in their lives. It’s so much about being able to look out your window and see the different possibilities…
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He recalls when he first started out in the service industry as a waiter, he couldn’t make a decent living. “Luckily I just met the right people,” to get into the music business and do something different, he says, noting he has family members who come from a wide variety of economic circumstances. When it comes to basic income and the Ontario pilots being tested in Thunder Bay area, Hamilton/ Brant County, and Lindsay, Cuddy says he doesn’t know a lot about the program in detail, but he does believe in sharing the national wealth better.
“I think generally, that prosperity should be shared with those who are in need,” he says, in a country as wealthy as Canada.
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and when you lack that, it’s suffocating,” Cuddy says.
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“It just makes sense to me,” he says, noting that if basic income brings someone from about $720 a month to about $1,400 per month, “that money is 100 per cent recycled into the local economy.” “I can’t see how that’s not a good idea. It’s a sane and humane idea, to bring a level of decency into their lives that can only have a positive effect,” Cuddy says. The Canadian Music Hall of Fame band singer says their concert at Women’s Resources is “important” and “there’s a lot of need out there.” CONT’D PAGE 22
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