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An Ottawa city councillor says taxi drivers should pay the policing bill for a job action that is now entering into its second month — and has erupted into violence.
Riley Brockington, who represents River Ward, says after the cost of policing the drivers’ job action is tallied, he plans to personally deliver a bill to the president of Unifor, the airport taxi drivers’ union.
“I expect the public will ask that whoever generated the costs should foot the bill,” Riley said Thursday.
He doesn’t how much policing the taxi action has cost, and says it will likely be a symbolic act, but residents of his ward, which includes the Airport Parkway, where much of the disruption is centred, are fed up.
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“Resources are being stretched to the max,” said Brockington. “These resources are taken from where they need to be — preventing and addressing crime. I have a long list of issues where police ought to be deployed.”
On Tuesday, a taxi carrying a passenger who had just arrived in Ottawa from New Brunswick was attacked by drivers wielding metal bars and a window was smashed. The passenger later told a reporter he was picking shards of glass out of his hair. A driver from a rival cab company also reported that his taxi was vandalized and the tires slashed.
On Thursday, police charged three men with mischief and possession of dangerous weapons.
“We have to stop it now,” said Brockington, who is calling on the drivers and their dispatcher, Coventry Connections, to sit down with an independent mediator. While he doesn’t blame Mayor Jim Watson for refusing to meet with the drivers, Brockington says the mayor can call for a mediator.
“We can’t be prepared to do nothing.”
jlaucius@ottawacitizen.com
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Riley Brockington, who represents River Ward, says after the cost of policing the drivers’ job action is tallied, he plans to personally deliver a bill to the president of Unifor, the airport taxi drivers’ union.
“I expect the public will ask that whoever generated the costs should foot the bill,” Riley said Thursday.
He doesn’t how much policing the taxi action has cost, and says it will likely be a symbolic act, but residents of his ward, which includes the Airport Parkway, where much of the disruption is centred, are fed up.
Related
“Resources are being stretched to the max,” said Brockington. “These resources are taken from where they need to be — preventing and addressing crime. I have a long list of issues where police ought to be deployed.”
On Tuesday, a taxi carrying a passenger who had just arrived in Ottawa from New Brunswick was attacked by drivers wielding metal bars and a window was smashed. The passenger later told a reporter he was picking shards of glass out of his hair. A driver from a rival cab company also reported that his taxi was vandalized and the tires slashed.
On Thursday, police charged three men with mischief and possession of dangerous weapons.
“We have to stop it now,” said Brockington, who is calling on the drivers and their dispatcher, Coventry Connections, to sit down with an independent mediator. While he doesn’t blame Mayor Jim Watson for refusing to meet with the drivers, Brockington says the mayor can call for a mediator.
“We can’t be prepared to do nothing.”
jlaucius@ottawacitizen.com
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