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People know people here.
When everybody was here, everybody would be outside,
walking around, walking their dogs, you know, just enjoying.
You don't see that in the suburbs.
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It was like a small little community hidden in the city.
So you unclip this with a screwdriver.
OK.
It used to be beautiful in here.
We used to have yard inspections,
and you would have to make sure that your yard was
better than the lady down the street.
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You wanna talk about low income housing, you know,
Calgary doesn't have much of that.
Apparently a lot of people in Calgary make a lot of money.
Some of us don't.
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I've been here 38 years, I'm 92 years old,
and I get an eviction notice.
We were given no choice.
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I had a couple of seeds in an envelope,
and I didn't know what it was, so I planted it.
It took a while to come up, but it's a nice plant.
You know, I'm in my 80s, and I don't plan on getting rich.
My daughter said to me one time, she jokes with me all the time,
my youngest daughter, she said Dad, give me some of your money.
I said why.
She said you can't take it with you.
I said, then I'm not going.
They want this land.
Some people are estimating it's worth $90 million.
Some are saying $60 million.
This is my home.
I spent $25,000 last year putting a new roof
and upgrading the whole thing.
New siding.
I'm supposed to just walk away.
You know?
It doesn't make sense.
If you play nice, they'll walk all over you, you know.
The only thing that's gonna save us is the press and the media,
and the, you know, you have to embarrass them.
The future of Midfield Park has been up in the air
since the early 2000s when concerns surfaced
over failing water and sewer lines.
And you cannot fix the sewer pipes without
removing the house, because of the way the
original developer built that land.
-Kyle Bakx: The land is city owned, and civic officials would prefer
the valuable property to be used for high-density,
mixed-use developments.
Look at this, going back to 2006.
-Carla Beynon: Rudy Prediger leads a community co-op,
and as he watches his property value drop,
Prediger says there's only one deal he will accept.
To get out of here and leave us alone.
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-Rudy: They're telling everybody in the city
that the infrastructure is falling apart.
That's a big lie.
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I've tried to tell our people here,
if your home means anything to you, you have to fight for it.
If you're not willing to fight for your home,
you don't deserve it.
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Hey you guys, get your stuff ready.
We're moving.
We found a place.
My kids are leaving a lot of friends behind.
Go from there, start back at the drawing board, and yeah.
You OK?
Again?
You're moving right away?
Yeah.
Where are you going?
I bought a place out in Red Deer.
Red Deer?
Yeah.
OK.
This last paperwork shows right on it that if you're not out
by the end of September, they're gonna take,
forcefully take you out of your homes, change your
locks, and you're done, and you don't get no money.
I don't know what they're gonna do when there is some people.
They're all gonna be demolished.
Yeah, what about you Gary?
I'm getting, I'm demolishing too.
Oh yeah?
I have no choice, too old.
When?
Oh, I can go, I can go till the end of September if I have to.
Yeah.
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They're supposed to build us a new park, that's how it started.
Oh, we're gonna build you a new park, out by Citadel out there.
Oh, they showed me pictures, a little lake in the middle,
and all this, and a little fountain shooting up.
Then all of a sudden, no, not building you a new park.
Out.
And that's it.
So out we go.
This tree here, I planted that when it was about
a foot and a half high.
And there was no bike paths here,
so I wasn't worried about it getting wrecked.
And the city one day is gonna come in here
and hit my tree with a bulldozer.
Well then I look at the golf course,
I say you've got 3-400 people living in this park,
and you've got six people on the golf course covering about
5000 acres, and they have no place for us.
Ridiculous.
I'm not telling them to remove the golf course,
I'm telling them to remove themselves
from our way of life.
If they don't like it, don't treat us like trailer trash.
-Rudy: Well the thing is, they promised us a new park to move to,
and we're gonna hold them to that.
You know?
If I make a promise to the city,
they'd damn well make me live up to it.
And you got the manager going, knocking door to door,
you gotta get out by the end of the month,
they're scaring people.
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When I was a kid, moving from apartment to apartment,
and losing your stuff, it's not a big deal.
But when you're in a home, and you've accumulated
so much stuff, and you have stuff from your family that
they've passed on, and you can't take with you now, it's hard.
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True wealth is what you are, not what you have.
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That's not what people believe anymore.
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There's quite a few people in here that think that they're
just gonna be able to walk up to a lawyer,
and fight to stay in here.
And Rudy's filling everybody's heads full of, oh,
we're gonna save this park, we're gonna save this park.
He's not saving shit.
It's gonna be taken, period.
You're gonna lose your home.
There is no more fight.
There is no more time.
I'm gonna miss it.
-Gary: This place used to be mint.
I used to keep it, my grass was cut, the fence was up,
but after what they did, give up.
Just don't do nothing.
I got my apartment.
I found one that I will take, and so I'm ready to go.
I can move at any time now, pretty much.
It's a bunker.
It's a basement apartment, it's one bedroom.
I'm going from two feet above ground, to four feet below.
Because right now I'm two feet above ground,
with the skirting, right?
And I'm gonna go into the bunker, I'm gonna be down.
All you can see is my head.
But I'll get used to it, you know, you know.
You just move with the, go with the flow.
I have to take what the majority does.
I mean, not one man is gonna take on the city.
I've been watching the interviews that you've been
doing, and I don't, I'm still trying to figure out what I can
do to help, other than just shine the light on it.
Alright.
Like, what are you hoping for, for you?
Compensation at fair value?
No, then I've got to go buy something.
I want my home.
You want to keep it?
Yeah, certainly.
People ask me why you haven't started a lawsuit,
why you don't have a class action?
Money.
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To close Midfield, we, under the mobile home tenancies act,
had to give one year's notice.
We said that wasn't fair, we gave three.
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No compensation was payable, we said that wasn't fair,
so everyone is getting $10,000 cash,
plus help with their moving expenses, plus, of course,
they still own their homes.
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So of the 183 homes in Midfield,
I believe about 150 have moved already.
About forty have plans to move before the end of the month,
about ten we have not heard from yet.
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They can't fence us off and not leave an exit.
I know they've got to put a fence around every zoo they've
got, but you've got to still be able to let the odd animal out.
Yeah, it kind of gives you that closed in feeling for sure.
It takes away the view.
Scenery we got.
You know, we pay an extra $50 in rent here,
to look at the scenery and they fence it off.
Yeah.
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A year ago I started to have pains and everything,
and then I finally went and got checked out,
and after a month or so, diagnosis and stuff,
I found out I had stomach cancer.
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So I went back to work, and said, well, I can't work now,
because I've got other issues to deal with,
and left work and came home here,
and walked into the front door, and that's when our notice was
on the front door, saying that we have to
leave here at the end of September.
So then I just kind of threw that aside,
because I had other issues to work on right now,
because I was in a lot of pain and everything.
So we got through that, and now we've got to get through this.
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Dean Braun just came out of the courtroom where they are
arguing the case on Midfield.
He's the person who put up the Go Fund Me page,
for those of you who wanted to help fund the action,
and I'm gonna find out what exactly happened there.
Dean Braun, thanks so much for joining us,
thanks for calling in.
It's been a great morning.
So tell us, what happened?
Well, we went into the court, and the lawyer who we engaged,
Matt Farrell, he's argued with the city that we're gonna
delay it until November 22, so the residents who want to remain
there are free to remain there until November 22.
Whoa!
So right on, so no eviction on September 30.
No eviction September 30.
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They know they've got a fight on their hands, because before I
take $10,000 I will put a match to it, that's a joke.
It's gonna stir up a hornet's nest,
and that's exactly what it's going to do.
If you've got the public behind you, then everything changes.
Yeah.
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Residents now have a lawyer working on their behalf,
Matthew Farrell took the park residents' case to court today.
At a hearing booked in November, Farrell will argue the city's
reasons for evicting the residents,
crumbling water and sewer infrastructure
goes against the province's mobile home sites tenancy act.
Rudy!
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We're here to go in front of the judge
and find out which way things are gonna go.
And how are you feeling about your chances?
I always feel good about it, otherwise I wouldn't be here.
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Come on in, team.
Want to have these windows in the background?
Sure.
We're your team, dude.
We're all a team, right.
Your reaction to what happened today?
The key thing here is, and the thing that the judge
is going to be deciding in this application
is whether or not what the city did was wrong.
For the people who are still there, obviously the hope is
that they're still going to continue to be there.
Thanks Matthew.
Like they don't understand what stress does to a person.
It's killing us.
It's killing us.
I don't want to say anymore, I'm gonna start crying.
I want to say that I moved in there 47 years ago.
I was married to a clean a holic.
You couldn't find a speck of dirt when she was alive.
She did a lot of knitting and stuff,
you know, when she got older.
But I've lost quite a few family members,
and then I lost a daughter, I lost a son.
So you get through it.
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That's Karen, that's my wife Della, that's Jody, and me.
These are the two that are left, her and I.
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We lost a child of SIDS,
woke up in the morning and the baby was dead.
Six months old.
And I could draw you, if I was an artist,
I could draw you a picture of what I seen that morning.
You never lose that.
It stays with you.
You learn to live with it, but you never forget.
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(Sirens)
-Voice mail voice: Monday, 10:52 AM.
Hi there, tried you two or three times.
I left a message before, but you didn't call back,
so give me a call back.
Hey Uncle.
Give me a call when you get a chance,
talk to you later, bye bye.
Hey Rudy, it's Laura, I'm gonna come over to the house.
OK?
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How did I end up on the floor?
Today, you were down on the floor today.
When you fell today, were you dizzy?
Busy?
Dizzy.
I don't know, or I would have sat down right away.
-Rudy: I had pneumonia, and I think that's because
I was laying on that cold floor for so long.
I think about 30 hours.
I don't want to be in some home.
You know?
If I'm gonna die, I'll do it at home.
Rudy, are you good to go have a walk?
Hello.
Hi, are you good to go have a walk?
Yes.
I'll join you, just let me finish up here.
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Look at this.
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Yeah, lay down now.
When I was gone in the hospital, when I come home,
I went and laid down on the bed, and she laid down beside me,
and something woke me up, and I looked, and here,
she's right here licking my nose.
Laying on the bed and licking my nose,
she was so glad that I come back.
(Phone rings)
Hello.
Hey Uncle.
So you gonna fill me in on everything
that happened down at the court house?
I just heard on the radio here that
the judge ordered everybody out by next February.
That's all I know.
Yeah, just the news that you needed to hear today, huh?
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-Rudy: I was planning on retiring here,
and spending the rest of my years here.
But any time you have anything to do with the city, you know,
they'll dig your grave up if they want that land.
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-Rudy: It's cost me in my life, for being outspoken.
But if I think somebody's being treated wrong, I speak up.
And it's just the way I am.
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It's like one guy told me one time,
I like a good licking once in a while.
I said why?
He said, it feels so good when they quit.
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