Toronto T Party? That’s “T” for “Trash”
June 24, 2009 · By Sean
In 1773, colonists in Boston Massachusetts chose to destroy 3 shiploads of taxed tea instead of returning it to Britain over the Tea Act. This became known as the Boston Tea Party; famous for starting the saying “No Taxation Without Representation”. This was just one of the precursors to the American Revolution.
Fast forward to 2009, Toronto, Ontario.
Toronto Mayor David Miller has through his own actions created a crisis whereby he has established a precedent for his own dealings with Organized Labour and has suddenly either seen the light, or experienced some sort of epiphany where he has realized that these sorts of “rollovers” can no longer go on. Did someone manage to prove to him that money doesn’t grow on trees? (Given that Canadian money is very colorful, his world must be in perpetual autumn.)
So now, during this disgusting crisis taking place arguably at the worst possible time for an already struggling city, Mayor David Miller is sending out the Toronto equivalent to the KGB with orders to track down and identify citizens who dispose of their trash in ways that the city doesn’t approve of (and admittedly any city wouldn’t). As if this wasn’t enough, he is encouraging citizens to snitch on their neighbors by reporting their activities to the proper “authorities”. Doesn’t that sound like the youth programs the Nazi’s established where children were brainwashed into betraying their parents and neighbors to the Gestapo? Now I’m not saying that this is what’s being emulated here, but it certainly sounds eerily similar in flavor.
Anyway, illegal dumping seems to be taking place because striking city workers have been causing some problems at approved dumping sites causing excessivly long waits (which presumably contribute to more traffic snarls in a city already famous for congestion). Now, I don’t condone illegal dumping, but what options are left to the tax-paying citizens who are not being provided with the services they have (and continue to be) paid for?
Mayor David Miller is asking people to store their garbage in their garages. Having lived in downtown Toronto for a time, I can tell you there’s not many personal garages around there. Striking city workers are asking people to submit to their ill-conceived (albeit legal) strike and all the harassment that goes with it.
Can you imagine though, if Torontonians chose the path of the Boston colonists? Imagine, if you will, if residents chose instead to destroy their own garbage instead of returning the already taxed trash to the city? I doubt Torontonians would tolerate dumping all their garbage into Toronto’s harbour, but there are other ways of disposing/destroying of trash that do not include illegal dumping.
We could very well see the Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer in Toronto. More “Hazy” than usual maybe.
Just a thought…
They could always find the nearest union bosses house and drop the garbage on his or her front yard. That might change the Union’s irresponsible tactics of harassing people at garbage dumps and transfer stations.
Well, they could do that, but I’d be happier to see some kind of professionalism maintained in that this is a labour strike as opposed to a personal strike.
Recently in Windsor, some striking city workers picketed the mayor’s “street” thereby encroaching on harassing him and his family on a personal level. I was appalled (as were many Windsor residents) and I expect anyone else would be if they were in that position. The backlash was spectacular in it’s scope.
Keep it confined to municipal/civic owned locations.
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The best thing David Miller can do right now is task city police with ensuring the disposal sites stay clear of union gangsters harassing those people who dump their garbage themselves or pay “scabs” to do it.
As with all things unionized, if you want to put heat on them you have to open the door to free enterprise and competition. Torontonians, by and large, have enough money to pay some guy with a pickup truck to take their trash away. There’s a mountain of money to be made in a few short weeks as long as the city allows it. They should.
If they don’t then they’d best get used to the stench and the vermin.
Taxpayers being fined $400 for “illegally” dumping trash out side of approved dumping sites?
Meanwhile the same rules don’t apply to city workers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAqMn4gEe00
Was that person fined? I wonder?
What ever happened to public service?
FIRE all those leachers. If the job market is all that bad you should see them quickly replaced and with better quality workers who know how to give a damn.
The newspaper says that David Miller lives close to and passes High Park subway station every day on his way into work.
I would suggest leaving your garbage there at High Park subway station but at the Quebec Avenue entrance just north of Bloor Street West so you don’t block the buses leaving from the High Park Avenue exit.
Please spread this around.