Via Moonbattery comes this from the National Post
Things like this happen in sweatshops in developing countries all the time. Over heated or freezing factories, no bathroom breaks, and you buy your one cup of water from the company store at 300% of its value. But this is Canada. If we forced a cabbie’s wife to work in a factory like that, there would be much hue and cry about the conditions. But because he works in his eeeeeevil vehicular conveyance, fuck him.
Oh, and if you read down far enough, you hit the punchline: The law won’t apply to city workers in city vehicles.
Posted by: Right Girl
In a close race with the United Nations for the most ridiculous decision of the month, Toronto’s city council will consider a proposal making it illegal to warm up the car, or keep the motor running while you pick up the kids.I expect a human rights challenge from the taxi companies. For example, smoking in the workplace isn’t permitted, ergo cabbies can’t smoke in their cars, because it’s their workplace. So, the reverse should also apply: No one can force a worker to work in unsafe or unhealthy conditions. This is Canada - if a cabbie can’t run his car, he’ll freeze his hairy Arab balls off. And while I’m not against the torture of Arabs per se, they do have a strong case for making their workplaces livable.
Ever-prepared to impose its agenda on the lives of residents, council will consider a recommendation by the Board of Health reducing the current limit on idling from three minutes to one. And since even the three-minute law is rarely enforced (Hint to authorities: because it’s stupid), the board recommends giving parking control officers the authority to write tickets. Fine: $125.
The stated reason for this intrusion is that idling cars emit large amounts of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. Plus, the behaviour-control forces that make up the dominant left-wing bloc hate cars and want to force people to ride bicycles, which they view as preferable for ideological reasons. Dr. David McKeown, the city’s Medical Officer of Health, came dangerously close to giving the game away when he explained: “While we’re trying to shift people out of cars, into bikes and other forms of transportation, the one thing that should be easy to do is not use our cars when we don’t need to.”
Right. So the goal is to make driving as miserable as possible, thereby making the options — ie the TTC –appear less unattractive. And city authorities — not you — will decide when you need a warm car and when you don’t.
Things like this happen in sweatshops in developing countries all the time. Over heated or freezing factories, no bathroom breaks, and you buy your one cup of water from the company store at 300% of its value. But this is Canada. If we forced a cabbie’s wife to work in a factory like that, there would be much hue and cry about the conditions. But because he works in his eeeeeevil vehicular conveyance, fuck him.
Oh, and if you read down far enough, you hit the punchline: The law won’t apply to city workers in city vehicles.
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