Glenda at Just Between Us Girls fills in the gaps re: the taxi drivers who have been protesting at Pearson International. CTV;
Frustrations ran high Monday afternoon, as approximately 100 drivers staged their first day of pickets on highways around the airport. Some would-be travellers were so frustrated by the 90-minute delays, they abandoned cars to lug their bags to the terminal on foot.
The drivers are angry about the way the Greater Toronto Airports Authority grants new limousine licences.
The drivers don’t want independent drivers to be excluded from applying for the licences needed to take passengers from Pearson. They say the new licences should be awarded on the basis of driver seniority.
Taxi drivers with a regular Toronto-area licence can take customers to the airport, but risk a $100 fine if they take fares back to the city.
MPP Bob Runciman (in the Ontario Legislature);
This seems to be a very unfortunate trademark of this government, because, as I pointed out in debate in this House last week, this government did exactly the same sort of thing with respect to transportation legislation. The limousine drivers based in Mississauga, under legislation brought in by the Minister of Transportation, are now the only people who have the right to pick up passengers at Pearson airport. If a taxicab driver in the city of Toronto drops someone off, he can no longer pick up anybody at Pearson, but a limousine coming into Toronto can pick up people in Toronto. So why did they do that? Right in the middle of that legislation, the limousine drivers had a fundraiser for the Liberal Party of Ontario and gave them a $200,000 cheque.
The Libscammer buy off is ever widening. Who will be next…undertakers? My main worry is how wide the judiciary buy out may be.
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Notice pinned on bulletin board in limo drivers canteen at Terminal 3, when I worked there ten years ago: Lost: .357 magnum revolver in back seat of limo. If found, please call #…….(The RCMP were taking down the number when I went in to get a sandwich.) Haw!
My main worry, with more and more stuff like this coming out, is that the corruption is so widespread that yanking it out will either prove near impossible, or will cause major damage to the fabric and economy of our society. (Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it, of course.)