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Ottawa and the Ottawa Airport Authority will ask for a court injunction Wednesday to prevent Airport Taxi drivers from blocking the Airport Parkway.
While drivers have to right to picket, the city says, “the courts have consistently held that those rights do not extend to the blocking of public roadways, nor to tactics that involve threats and intimidation or which otherwise jeopardize public safety.”
A note to councillors from city clerk and solicitor Rick O’Connor says that although the dispute is between Coventry Connections and the drivers, it’s the city and airport that “have had to endure the bulk of the disruption that has been caused by the protests. These protests have been ongoing now for a considerable period of time and caused serious interference with the public’s use of the Airport Parkway.”
One injunction in August limited the access of protesting drivers to airport property, so much of the protesting has taken place along the parkway.
Some of the protests have involved parking beside the parkway with signs and letting traffic through. But taxi drivers blockaded the parkway on Sept. 8. And on two days last week, they cruised slowly during rush hour — about 20 kilometres an hour — along major roads including Uplands Drive, the Airport Parkway and Hunt Club Road.
O’Connor’s note to councillors says that “an injunction is an extraordinary step and this course of action is not one that the City and Airport Authority have embarked upon lightly.”
But it argues that “protests have been ongoing now for a considerable period of time and caused serious interference with the public’s use of the Airport Parkway.”
The motion for an injunction will be heard Wednesday in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
Unifor, the union representing the drivers, wasn’t immediately available for comment.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
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While drivers have to right to picket, the city says, “the courts have consistently held that those rights do not extend to the blocking of public roadways, nor to tactics that involve threats and intimidation or which otherwise jeopardize public safety.”
A note to councillors from city clerk and solicitor Rick O’Connor says that although the dispute is between Coventry Connections and the drivers, it’s the city and airport that “have had to endure the bulk of the disruption that has been caused by the protests. These protests have been ongoing now for a considerable period of time and caused serious interference with the public’s use of the Airport Parkway.”
One injunction in August limited the access of protesting drivers to airport property, so much of the protesting has taken place along the parkway.
Some of the protests have involved parking beside the parkway with signs and letting traffic through. But taxi drivers blockaded the parkway on Sept. 8. And on two days last week, they cruised slowly during rush hour — about 20 kilometres an hour — along major roads including Uplands Drive, the Airport Parkway and Hunt Club Road.
O’Connor’s note to councillors says that “an injunction is an extraordinary step and this course of action is not one that the City and Airport Authority have embarked upon lightly.”
But it argues that “protests have been ongoing now for a considerable period of time and caused serious interference with the public’s use of the Airport Parkway.”
The motion for an injunction will be heard Wednesday in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
Unifor, the union representing the drivers, wasn’t immediately available for comment.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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