Friday, March 29, 2024

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Opinion/ColumnPropaganda Watch

I support the current thing (and please forget that last thing, like when we crushed that industry and those families)

This summer, with the release of “The Uber Files” there has been a flurry of attention to all things Taxi and Uber. Perhaps I should say “Anti-Uber,” because suddenly the fact that Uber is an unprofitable business model which exploits drivers, gouges customers and has been a safety risk from the start has dawned upon the consciousness of the globe.

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Don’t close the Uber Files! The spectacle continues right here, right now, today in Toronto

Clearly, the Uber Files offer a platform for politicians to issue sweeping statements about how perfectly fine their behaviour was 10 years ago. But here’s where doubts creep in: their behaviour wasn’t perfectly fine then, and this story didn’t end 10 years ago. It’s happening right now, today. What if the Uber Files are nothing more than a cue for Uber and the politicians that enabled it to claim they are putting the past behind them and lull everyone back to sleep?

In Toronto, for example, Uber’s influence over the law didn’t end when Mayor Tory brought a motion to Council which offered ridesharing companies preferential rules, generously handing them a massive competitive advantage.

Uber’s influence is still as plain as the nose on your face in, for example, the situation occurring right this minute as Toronto’s Licensing division is lackadaisically moseying along in its third year of attempting to roll out a training program for Vehicle for Hire (VFH) drivers.

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Feature/ProfilePropaganda Watch

Propaganda Watch: what exactly does Doug Ford mean by removing “almost all restrictions”?

Rita Smith is a professional copywriter who written for municipal, provincial and federal levels of government in Canada for 35 years.

Propaganda Watch© is a an occasional feature designed to help trusting Canadian voters question, decode and interpret political language designed to persuade and sometimes, confuse.

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