Vermin in, vermin out

Pictured is the fence mendings at Moss Park in preparation to become a temporary dump site during this year's civic strike. Every four years Toronto gets struck by the outside workers and the inside workers. Not much is known about he attitudes of the upstairs workers or the basement workers but they don't have union infection.

Now this is getting ridiculous. Everyone knows that there will be a necessity to force the civic workers back to work by legislation like the last time. Labor issues and ultimate responsibility for municipalities belong to the responsibility of the province. Its a long story but unlike other states or provinces in the globe the provincial governments fought to control municipalities. Until a real crisis hits and then they run for goddammed cover.

In the province of Ontario, muncipal governments are a joke and the politicians that sit on councils are the local version of the last comics standing. They are used as scapegoats by the province and federal governments when convenient inaction by those political entities are needed. Not only that, the alleged senior levels of government dump their difficult costs onto the municipal budgets then don't provide enough funds to efficiently provide that service.

In the garbage issue this sticks out. The Toronto Council remained at odds with its civic unions. The union goes on strike the Toronto Council doesn't have to do a thing to negotiate a deal. They put up temporary dumps only.

Now for the temporary dump issues the true urbanite seems to crawl out the wood work to smash down the idea. Here's their fear. It is that these temporary dumps will attract vermin. And with that I agree.

Shocked about how easily I agree? I simply believe that it would be a travesty for pigeons, raccoons, rats, squirrels and maggots to replace the smackers, crackheads, dealers, thieves, drunks and whores that use the park.