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welcome back we go on over to my Keppel standing by at his home skype studio good morning to you Mike I'm Melanie how you doing this morning doing all right I feel like these business hits there's almost there's something significant in every single one of them every single point that you send you usually send a list to us and I try to get to all of them for you and you do as well so let's let's start here Auto Sales massive slump and that's no surprise yeah as we've seen the ripple effect throughout all sectors of retail from the Cova 19 pandemic Melanie the auto dealerships you know in the middle of March we're starting to shut their doors they're still offering online sales in in some cases but you know when we've got such economic worry out there you're not looking at doing a big purchase necessarily so what happens while auto sales slump significantly ing to the tabulation by des Rosiers consultants a year ago we were looking at a hundred and fifty thousand sales per month for the month of March it was 95 thousand so a 48 percent drop and keep in mind that was a tapering effect through last month so what will April and May show even though you know you're hearing about some pretty good promotions on right now deferred payments and you can buy online but the question is like everything else kind of things everything is slowing down dramatically and of course the auto makers themselves but not building cars and trucks right now right now they're playing Arthur shutdown right you said you know you could buy online but the same thing as homes it's a sort of thing where you need to actually look touch feel and really try it out and not a lot of people looking to do that right now let's talk about the restaurant industry hospitality industry really struggling right now and they're looking for help well the survey in from restaurants Canada industry lobby group says that already they're looking at 800,000 permanent jobs lost in the industry and one in ten restaurants permanently closed and that will just grow as the pandemic carries on they're happy with the Trudeau government's rollout of seventy 1 billion dollars in financial assistance to small business the issue that all small businesses are having right now is the timing you know the talk from Finance Minister Bill Morneau was that this is going to take three to six weeks they need the money now and that's the that's the challenge that any of these government programs have right now is is getting it through those who need it most as quickly as possible how do you do that what channel do you have that the infrastructure set up whether it's online or through the Canada Revenue Agency to get money out that quickly it's it's problem unfortunately probably not that that's you know how government works it's it's you can only do so much so fast yes the big problem right now well you think about all the applications that are gonna come through the three to six week promise is a promise that they hope to keep but it's not necessarily one that they'll be able to do I think there's gonna be a lot of questions as to they can if they can make that timeline I know here are technical problems right salutely there's a lot yeah they're gonna be bugs to be worked out of the system that's for sure let's talk about the farming industry and when it comes to workers looking to get we're starting those crops right now and could we see a backup when it comes to getting the proper workers in place well you have seasonal workers coming into the country 600,000 of them you know on a yearly basis and they're trying to get them in and then they have to go into quarantine for 14 days and farmers you know the the crops this spring Melanie asparagus will be the first we've got fruit trees to be pruned in Niagara and elsewhere and the trees and the plants aren't waiting around so the industry and I've got family in this in this business as well they're saying look we need people now and this is a huge concern because they got to figure out okay are we going to buy fertilizer for the year or are we just going to say to heck with it and and and and wait you know so the uncertainty it again it's every everybody right now it's the overhang of the pandemic and and dealing with it with the stress loads for various parts of the economy that aren't waiting around right now those are very very high zoom have you been on it on any zoom calls of course this is if you haven't used it a platform a like a low Skype or you can add a lot a bunch of people a lot of conference meetings happening there have you been on any zoom calls my daughters have actually yeah we've been talking about this suffer while now ongoing security issues with it do you have more on that well it's a new platform new ish platform right so you've got I think Google house parties another one in it and they the the companies that have been in the industry for longer than zoom have they've got a very robust privacy policy and there are already some officials in the u.s. specifically looking at soom about privacy concerns is it hackable and that's the risk of any type of new technology when you're doing something of a social nature how easy is it for bad actors so to speak to get into your to your system now again for most people it doesn't matter all that much but if you're a business using this for a whole can it be a back channel to your your IT department or something of that nature zoom had been one of the best performing stocks on Wall Street until the past three days when these issues started to arise and it's been down significantly over that time frame boy lots to discuss here Mike we're gonna do it all over again tomorrow and it's Friday by the way in case you forgot take care thank you