Barb

You see these are the topics I really want you to hear me out as we make it a duty to cut people out of employment. And I do not know how much you follow the system if it is good as mine, for I work with many families, but getting a criminal record lost the value it had, for the system is built to getting as many convictions as possible to show you are a good police officer or a good prosecutor. Barb I know members of society that separate from men and a woman walks to a social worker and a restriction is dumped on the man without the man going to court let alone knowing about it. Since going to court is a very long lousy system that simply does not work, people decide to plead guilty and move on with their lives. A son 8 year old came to school crying that his father slapped him, if you want the system to get off your back tell them you are guilty or you will go to court every 2 weeks and in piled up courts, your case will not be heard for two or three years, so you say okay I am guilty and you walk away with a fine of 100 dollars to the court. The best jobs these people do is to drive taxis. He has a criminal record but it is a silly domestic record for many of them the kids are grown up to and moved on.

We are not chasing them out of taxis only but I know a guy that has driven courier for fifteen years and when Obama had a last meeting with Stephen Harper, it was decided that a security system be made on Pearson and the requirement is a criminal check. So for someone to show up at your door to pick up the nonsense you are shipping out for 6 dollars at same day rate, they need a police record. Many of these people have been in these jobs for more than 15 years and now you are eliminating them out when they cannot work in offices as well. Where exactly do you want them to go? But here is what is very funny. The mayor of this city was arrested for drinking and driving. A counselor of this city was arrested for drinking and driving. These are the very people that sit in the city to set up these laws, so we have drunk drivers in the city setting up laws to go after drunk drivers that do very menial jobs that you and I can never survive on. How fair is that? But let me also go after this Canadian stupidity of criminal record. Every single mass killer I have seen, every single murderer I have seen that goes to a school and shoots massively, every terrorist I have seen arrested, every killer as the one we had in Norway that killed so many innocent children, they all have a very clean record. Every one of them has no single police record. Who told you that if a Canadian has a criminal conviction he is your enemy? May be you should start by worrying about your neighbors that have a squeaky clean record for down their heart they are sole killers?

But here is where it gets even better. Okay let us require all Cab drivers to have no criminal record, that is fine. So we are getting doctors that we refuse to get their true jobs and we only allow them to do jobs that lazy Canadians cannot do, and we pay them as beggars, for trust me Barb you cannot budget the money a taxi driver makes, but we have pushed them to do a criminal record before they go to sleep on a street to drive you home for 3 bucks. Here is my question to you. Why do you want a taxi driver that has no criminal record to drive any one in a middle of the night when she is drunk and she has a criminal record? Yes driving a taxi is a very dangerous job and many get stabbed in this city in the cover of the night, it is time we care about their safety for there is no reason why any of them should be stuck into a car with a passenger with a drug conviction in the dark of night. We need to stand up and ask very one to walk with his or her criminal record so that when you stop a taxi in the night, you can show your record to a taxi driver to know that you are a safe person to be driven. TTC drivers must have a same protection and train drivers must have the same protection, pilots should have the same protection as ships and boats drivers. Let us stand up and make a criminal record report mandatory to everyone in the province so that we get the society safe than starting with low and weak amongst ourselves. If I drive Pizza in the night and I deliver to your house, you honestly do not want me to your house at 4am if I have a criminal record, all I am stating is that if I show up to your door to deliver the Pizza I need to see your criminal record before I pull into your drive way, for can you imagine pulling into a house at 4 am of a man convicted of drunk driving, let alone assault? I was just in a meeting this afternoon and one man stood up and said you know, it is better to sell drugs, no questions asked, and you get paid decently. It amazes me how The Canadian society expects to be this cheap but so demanding man. Geez funny how society opens a war to hard working people but this is a step in a right direction, let us get the records of all taxi drivers, for that is going to empower the taxi drivers to demand for the records of all passengers before they board.

We live in very strange days indeed for this is clearly not thought through trust me.

EM