Safer Highways Discussion: reader letters and comments
“I am wondering why there isn’t a graduated licensing system for truck drivers?”
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Opinion/Column
Commercial Vehicle Driver Safety Improvement Proposal
We are a group of professional, working Truck drivers.
We are alarmed at the number of severe, avoidable collisions involving commercial vehicles we see on an almost-daily basis. While these incidents have becoming increasingly worse in Northern Ontario, it has become a problem throughout the entire country.
Our hope is to see commercial drivers become the safest drivers on the highways, as this should be the case already.
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Ottawa Police sending out non-ticket, non-legal proceeding letters
In what appears to be a brand-new tactic developed to persuade Canadians to “change your driving habits,” the Ottawa Police Service is sending letters to drivers about whom there were complaints during the recent Freedom Convoy 2022 event in February.
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Feds kill idea of inter-provincial vaccine mandates, while Tamara Lich remains in jail
Restrictions on interprovincial travel are forbidden under Canada’s Constitution and are the subject of a lawsuit against the government by Brian Peckford, the last living signatory of Canada’s 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Canada’s Transport Minister Omar Alghabra mused about implementing such restrictions during the Freedom Convoy 2022 in February.
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The Big Lie that keeps the Uber bezzle alive
Here’s how that proposition worked: Uber loses a lot of money on every ride. But someday, it will corner the market on transit (not just taxi journeys, but all transit), and it will be able to raise prices and cut wages and recover all those loses and turn a profit.
Obviously, this is stupid. Even if Uber manages to blow through its investors’ billions in habituating us to rideshares over cabs and buses, even if they manage to bribe or bully cities into allowing takeovers by unlicensed cabs, even if they manage to rewrite labor laws so they can treat their employees as contractors…
Even if all of that, then what? Then you have a market that is structured for dominance by unlicensed taxis driven by misclassified employees – that anyone can enter. The (mythical) day Uber attains dominance and profitability, someone else can start a competitor that provides exactly the same services, with exactly the same drivers and exactly the same passengers. The only difference? That new service won’t be $31 billion in the hole, unlike Uber.
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The Ripple Effect
In the US, American truckers are getting registered for a protest convoy to Washington, where military-grade fencing barriers have been placed around the Whitehouse and the capital building. No doubt, this is a precautionary measure due to the January 6th 2021 insurrection.
With truckers planning a Freedom Convoy to Washington, and the protests here in Canada winding down, I can’t help but ask myself: will it matter? Will the American Freedom Convoy have the impact that the Canadian convoy did?
Read MoreTrudeau humiliated as even Senators he appointed were poised to vote against Emergencies Act
Trudeau was about to lose a vote in the Senate which was needed to ratify the Emergency Act, invoked to disperse a peaceful protest by the truckers Freedom Convoy in Ottawa. In addition, thousands of Canadians moved their bank accounts and investments out of the country fearing that their money might be frozen by Trudeau.
Senator David Wells from Newfoundland said: “The Government saw the writing on the wall and pulled the plug. Cabinet ministers and the government Senate leader started calling senators to assess support for continuation of the Act. The numbers weren’t looking good… That’s when the decision was made.”
The morning before Trudeau backed down, Pierre Dalphond, a Senator Trudeau himself had appointed from Quebec said: “I have decided to vote against the motion to authorize the continuation of the state of emergency, out of concern about the lack of judicial oversight in the freezing of assets,” because he believes it violates “the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.”
Read More“The highest authority in this country labeled my brothers as deviants, extremists” Alberta woman explains why her brothers went to Ottawa
My brothers are well-respected members of this community. They volunteer their time farming the land when their neighbors have health issues and can’t get the crop off themselves. They offer their assistance to strangers in the area whose vehicles go into the ditch in the winter, helping to pull them out. My brothers and the community we come from at large are the kind of people anyone should be so blessed to have in their lives. They will jump in to help anyone, no questions asked, and ask for nothing in return.
Read MoreCTA Statement on Government of Canada Invoking of Emergencies Act
“These illegal blockades have had a detrimental impact on our members and customers’ businesses. These blockades have also had a very significant negative impact upon our professional driving community. CTA very much welcomes the Prime Minister’s leadership today in helping to bring an end to these illegal blockades,” said CTA president Stephen Laskowski. “Order must be restored to our borders and critical infrastructure that are being blockaded.”
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