Consternation about the opec meeting. Jim, another day of Business Leaders addressing racial inequality whether its gorsky on squawk, moynihan, ballmer, this letter by cory barry, theyre out in force yeah. I thought that one of the themes echoed by alex gorsky is no more dodging. Look, im white, i am part of the problem because im not doing enough i think theres been a long history of people who have said im white, im older, im a ceo, i cant do anything other than have a committee and put some money at it. Theres far more soul searching this time. These are heartfelt sentiments but also sentiments that say im rolling my sleeves up. Im not going to say my heart is going out with them. The hearts going out with them doesnt work it is something that is a platitude, something that gets nothing done and when you hear it now, its code for, hey, okay, i finished that lets talk about the numbers i think that a lot of courageous actions, different tone. David, you have to admit, this is a tone
As being totally disingenuous. The jd of what happidea of whatt week with the minus 37, theres a couple of Financial Instruments that are wrong they are broken. We dont regard things as broken because it seems almost impossible that something could break. But the future that you see and the actual prices are very different, particularly in the out years. And i think whats going to happen is this has to go to zero again, because we dont have more space i heard the ceo of the largest Tanker Company on friday saying theres no room. Why should this number not go to zero it should go to zero faster than it did last time any chance it will go to zero. Yeah. Any chance that it doesnt because we will begin opening u some of these states thats certainly a hope, but there are times in life where people know that theres an instrument that is faulty. And they can shoot against that instrument and bury these people there is this financial problem that people behind the uso, they are financial peopl
And start watching the hot dogs. The. Real thing its like. As a sort of. Like you that i got. With. This. Is exactly. Welcome back everybody laughing not a capitalist and joining me now from canada on the latest on the lead crisis are to makkah correspondent alex mind alex thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me so tell us a little more about this is this is a pretty disturbing study. It is a look the researchers dug into thousands of previously undisclosed documents meaning that these documents have been around they tested hundreds of houses from coast to coast in canada they found out that hundreds of thousands of people in this country are Drinking Water contaminated with lead its coming into their homes and the lead levels are higher or the same as flint michigan when you say flint michigan you think disaster so this is whats happening in cities from coast to coast in canada including places like montreal that you just mentioned nevermind smaller towns and a place called
Coast in canada including places like montreal that you just mentioned never mind smaller towns and a place called opal which is just outside of toronto so these are highly Populated Areas as well im going to some numbers here for you so dont mind me reading for one moment so the fact is out of 12000. 00 test since 201433 percent exceeded National Safety guidelines of 5 parts per 1000000000 now to put this into perspective when we look at the United States the National System there anything under 15 parts per 1000000000 is accepted here its 5 parts per 1000000000 so its 33 percent at an acceptable level but if we use the American Standard it drops down to 18 percent which is still you know most a quarter of all houses lets say one 5th of all houses in or that were tested in canada are contaminated with lead coming through the taps that means any water that youre showering in any water youre boiling any water you drink it straight from the trap has lead in that and we know that in many
Having me so tell us a little more about this is this is a pretty disturbing study. It is a look the researchers dug into thousands of previously undisclosed documents meaning that these documents have been around they tested hundreds of houses from coast to coast in canada they found out that hundreds of thousands of people in this country are Drinking Water contaminated with lead its coming into their homes and the lead levels are higher or the same as flint michigan when you say flint michigan you think disaster so this is whats happening in cities from coast to coast in canada including places like montreal that you just mentioned nevermind smaller towns and a place called opal which is just outside of toronto so these are highly Populated Areas as well im going to some numbers here for you so dont mind me reading for one moment so the fact is out of 12000. 00 test since 201433 percent exceeded National Safety guidelines of 5 parts per 1000000000 now to put this into perspective wh