Hipster Duck
Senior Member
The status quo sucks, but what are you going to do? Torontonians are more bite than bark. We just keep taking it.
I still don't know who we are striking against? Clogging the financial district is going to get Stephen Harper to formulate a transit plan? Not in a million years.
By all means, let's use Toronto's political influence. But calls for a 'strike' make absolutely no sense and will be of absolutely no use or effectiveness.
Well a general strike would probably go for longer than a few days... clog all access to the financial district and Bay St as well as major highways so there is a hell of a lot extra that we would have to do.
We're striking against the Province and the Feds... to them we have no political influence otherwise we would never have got into this situation. It's much easier for them to buy the 905 votes. The only real political influence is something that the old men on top will feel. Every company and corporation affected by this strike will also start screaming at the Prov/Feds and finally we'll see something happen.
I sympathisize with what you are saying, but if people walk off for two days, it'll make the news for a day and a half, and then be replaced by stories about how Conrad Black is doing in prison, or how one study suggest spandex reduces libido.
Look at what's happening in Vancouver right now...
What, rain? I haven't heard about anything happening in Vancouver.
Strikes are seldom an effective means of getting things accomplished. They just piss people off, and don't result in nearly as much sympathy as you would hope for.
I'm sort of in agreement. There's no sign of anything changing and sometimes a society needs to do such a thing in order to bring attention to a matter. A one day action of some sort may be the squeek in our wheel that gets us our greese.I completely understand what you guys are saying but there seems to be no other options left if we want this city to progress.