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this or is it a dead letter? >> Noor: it's a dead letter. It hasn't come up at all in the current debate or discussion. I think people are just trying to move along. I think they aren't realizing though that the province has a lot of control of the issue and I think that's one thing that's coming up, quite a bit. Even with crime. So many people in mississauga are concerned about crime but is crime is in the jurisdiction of america #no it's not. There's only so much a mayor can do to make a safe community. --they do but I guess addressing carjackings it's not a municipal issue and then the is that connection with the police but my point is to say that what has come across very clear is that the province runs and controls so much of how mississauga will grow and the future of mississauga. And I think that has come very clear and there are certain candidates like difficult the marla who has quite a bit we need to give mississauga the same respect toronto has. With this huge economy we are this large city we bring in so much benefit to that province. And we should beat recognized both in terms of getting funding for our social programs and other infrastructure programs to the extent that toronto does. Mississauga and peel is on the forefront for example, on the refugee crisis. And they don't have that same amount of support that I also see it in terms of mississauga deserves have to candidates are saying. >> Steve: in the course of the airport. It's called toronto pearson airport in mississauga. Zachary I should follow up with you on that issue of we were talking about here, the notion of mississauga separating from peel region. Any possibility that that's going to turn into some kind of issue despite the fact the province turned thumb down on that? >> Zachary: not right now I don't think but with that said, I don't think mississauga is done pursuing that. The thing we could see in the next mayor making that case again at some point down the road and I think they can't quite signal quite clearly is --with that said the next premier essentially is bonnie crombie who is the champion of this particular idea. I don't think we are out of the woods in experiencing this particular issue, if we play out more at the provincial level down that road a bit more. >> Steve: with a couple minutes left here, there was a bit of a sparky exchange a few days ago when carolyn parrish according to the polls the leading candidate to win the --announcing she wasn't going to participate in any more baits she said she was dropping out because she was getting too much harassment online. About certain issues. What do you think about that, do see that as playing a role in the outcome of this thing? >> Sue: I do. I think it's unfortunate. I think it's unfortunate that she had harassment but at the same time, I think it's important as a candidate you have to be out there, he had to be doing the debates and if she's not doing these debates she has to be knocking on those doors and being visible. Lack of community engagement is part of the problem in mississauga. If were going to get that vote of above 20 percent have to be out there knocking on doors. >> Steve: rahul she was criticized for not running a peekaboo front runners campaign. Sure you want to drop out because you're in first place and you don't want to have any potentially wrongdoings that might cost you the election. How are people reacting in your judgement to the fact that she's not going to participate anymore? >> Rahul: I think some people are not surprised for example, it's known that members of council including former counsellor parrish locked people on social media which has been frowned upon. I'm definitely fully aware of that uncertain topics. I have been blocked, yes. >> Steve: what did you do? >> Rahul: believe it or not, it was about cycling. But I think it's a challenge. We don't have that media seek --ecosystem that former candidate when it was starting up, that's the community were you seeing this amazing grassroots surge on solutions for housing. In mississauga we've given them this kind of golden ticket where they could've focused on housing, come out to these rare forms of dialogue with the community to debate where that media just can't take that --so I think it's a real missed opportunity were candidates who have their whole careers set to say I'm going to tough it out in the ring by pulling out your really saying the opposite message I'm not a candidate for you I'm a candidate for those

who voted for me before. >> Steve: zachary maybe you can comment on this aspect, we are 1.5 weeks until election days june 10th is the election by date. If someone from mississauga or is listening or watching right now and they are on the fence about voting what would you say to them about why it's important to do it? >> Zachary: I would say we haven't seen a lot of regime change, so to speak, over the last decade. So like you mentioned earlier, to mayors and 45 years, mississauga likes incumbents. So whoever is elected at this time can very well be reelected next time and reelected time after that. I would say there's an opportunity here to select the mayor not just for the continuation of bonnie crombie's term but perhaps for the next couple of election cycles. I think it's quite important so if you're not sure who you're going to be voting for, is it the website, call the campaign, because it's quite important as we just discussed voter turnout is going to be quite low but I think it's important everyone votes. >> Steve: gotcha that's our time everyone I want to thank you to coming into tvo in person or virtually. Sue shanly, noor javed, thank you for being on tvo tonight. >> Speaker: thank you for having us. >> Jeyan: what does it mean to be a black boy in ontario schools these days? Matthew r. Morris writes about race, identity, and belonging from his point of view as a product of the school system, and now as an educator within it. >> Jeyan: being raised by a white canadian mom and a jamaican immigrant dad, when did you start thinking about race? >> Matthew: I started thinking about race probably around grade 6 or grade 7 around the age of 12 and the reason why is because when I grew up, it was mid 90s where I really started to come to an understanding of what being a boy meant and what being popular meant and during that time in the mid-90 s, culture didn't necessarily look how culture looks like today. Culture in the early 90s was these sitcoms with a white family home improvement and the teenyboppers like justin taylor thomas and young leonardo dicaprio and saved by the bell with zack and macy and slater. Music too was these boy bands like nsync and backstreet boys and that was kind of what infiltrated youth culture at the time. I think like all youth, you are trying to emulate what you see from the outside world and at that time, that type of culture was so dominant. I kind of wanted to fasten myself like those teenybopper boys so I tried to grow out my hair. When I grew my hair out, it kind of grew like a cloud to the sky and it didn't matter how much mousse or gel or dippy do my mom went to shoppers drug mart and bought by like 1030 it just dried up in my hair and it expanded from it. And that the first time I came to the realization that different identities are kind of demarcated by race. And it was for me this notion of understanding that oh, I don't necessarily belong to this inside culture at the time, this white culture that was synonymous with pop culture at the time and it led me to understand that I'm a black boy. >> Jeyan: let's talk about that. You're a teacher now but when you were in school, in this school, what did you notice about black boys like you? >> Matthew: I will take you continue down the journey. Very quickly after that time when I started to get a bit older and transition into middle school, like where we are right now, the demographic actually shifted. At the time I was born in raised in scarborough, ontario and in the early 90s the demographic was still predominantly white but in the decade of the '90 s,

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