this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2024
39 points (93.3% liked)

Canada

8103 readers
1023 users here now

What's going on Canada?

Related Communities

🍁 Meta

πŸ—ΊοΈ Provinces / Territories

πŸ™οΈ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.

πŸ’ SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer

πŸ’» Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.

πŸ’΅ Finance, Shopping, Sales

πŸ—£οΈ Politics

🍁 Social / Culture

Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
otter
mp3
39
Doug Ford calls on federal workers in Ottawa to return to office (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 11 months ago by FunderPants to c/canada
13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

"They have to get people back to work," Premier Doug Ford said during a press conference on Thursday in Ottawa, standing next to Mayor Mark Sutcliffe.

"It sounds crazy. I'm begging people to go to work for three days β€” not that they aren't working at home, but it really affects the downtown."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FunderPants 37 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The entitlement Ford shows for business owners to other peoples money and time absolutely disgusts me.

Ford called his plea a "simple request" β€” for the federal government to require public servants to return to the office at least three days a week, a point of contention for many public servants during contract negotiations last year.

"You got to get the economy going downtown. These restaurants are hurting, the shops are hurting. Ridership on the transit's hurting," he said.

"I think that's a normal request. You get hired, come to work. Imagine if I told everyone else in the province you don't have to go to work? Our economy would be shot. So, they shouldn't get special treatment."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I assume that the need is so great that they will give everyone a significant raise for coming back to the office that covers their need to buy things downtown and their additional commute time, right?

Right?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Not only that, what about the downtowns where people actually live? This is basically just picking winners here, saying those downtowns don't matter, but the ones in major cities do. Pretty shameless exhibition of picking winners and losers here...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I bet the restaurants would do a lot better if everybody got a raise.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

If it makes you feel better:

Biden did the same thing a couple months ago to every federal agency in America.

At least you don't have to pretend Doug Ford is the most progressive option anyone is allowed to ask for