REQUEST FOR ENDORSEMENT TO ___________ CITY COUNCIL
RESPECTING
THE PROTECTION OF VALUABLE PUBLIC SERVICES

Whereas the November 2000 announcement of massive privitization of Ministry of Transportation services will have a significant detrimental effect on citizen road safety, confidentiality of citizens' information and on the economy of Ontario, and

Whereas the employees of the Ministry of Transportation are recognized in writing by the Provincial Government to have provided excellent service on the Government's behalf, and

Whereas the Government of Ontario is taking away the livelihood and decreasing the standard of living of thousands of its employees and families by its actions, both directly and indirectly through spin-off effects, and

Whereas citizens of Ontario are entitled to safe roads, consistency in driver testing, competent inspection of trucks, school buses, and vehicles carrying dangerous goods, and

Whereas communities continue to need to retain decent paying jobs if they are to maintain viability and vibrancy, and

Whereas we taxpayers have entrusted the Provincial Government over time, with the maintenance of public safety, with an apolitical and efficient public service, a service free of profiteering and protected from conflicts of interest , and

Whereas privitization is an abdication of such public trust,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Government of Ontario place a moratorium on all further privitization, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Government of Ontario restore and promote public service as being of significant value in our society.

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