Dispatches From North Of The Border

Urban Toronto, unfortunately you got the message totally wrong on the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) forum on accessibility! The message really is that the TTC lacks accessibility and discriminates against persons with disability.

Less than 50% of Toronto subway stations are accessible. Urban Toronto's #ableism shows in how you write a puff piece supporting the TTC, the City and Toronto and the Government of Ontario in their continued assertion that they can and will violate the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

By way of a very simplistic example, if only 50% of Toronto subway stations allowed users to enter what kind of TTC and public reaction would there be? One simply needs to look at what happens when one subway station is closed temporarily whether on weekends or during rush hours. 

Noticeably absent from the forum were the TTC Chair Josh Colle and Mayor John Tory. This city will continue to discriminate against all disabled until they will be "discrimination free" by 2025. Horse Puckey! All Toronto citizens will be ten years older in 2025 and they will discover the TTC, City of Toronto and The Ontario government have lied to us for twenty years. A ruse to support discrimination.

As for 2016, all TTC signage everywhere should read "No Disabled Allowed" here. 

Imagine if those signs read "No Blacks Allowed" or "No LGBTQ Allowed".

This discrimination wouldn't be allowed to stand for even one day, yet another group, also guaranteed non-discrimination by the Canadian Constitutional and the " Charter of Rights and Freedoms" has their rights violated daily.

I thought we decided in 1982 with "The Constitution Act" that these types of actions were illegal and discriminatory?

William A. Hoch