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Letters to The Editor<br />
In-cab cameras have reduced<br />
crime by over 70 percent<br />
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This program has reduced crime<br />
by over 70 percent against our<br />
taxicab drivers and has added an<br />
element of <strong>safety</strong> for our consumers<br />
as well. To not continue with<br />
inspecting the equipment, that<br />
percentage will erode and it will<br />
not take the criminal element in<br />
the City long to realize the cameras<br />
may not be working and robbery<br />
along with other crimes will<br />
increase exponentially therefore<br />
increasing the workload for the<br />
police service, which can easily be<br />
avoided.<br />
Having spent over 11 years by<br />
myself to achieve taxicab workplace<br />
<strong>safety</strong> in the City of Toronto<br />
that culminated in one of the first<br />
municipal bylaws in the world to<br />
address this concern, it is personally<br />
disheartening to me that the City<br />
of Toronto is pretty well deregulating<br />
this important <strong>safety</strong> tool.<br />
Since these actions will have a<br />
direct bearing on police investigations<br />
surrounding taxicabs where<br />
not only the volume of crime will<br />
increase, but the success of finding<br />
the perpetrator will diminish,<br />
perhaps it is time for your office to<br />
intervene and come up with a solution<br />
to ensure this equipment is<br />
City has destroyed industry<br />
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Not knowing all the ins and outs<br />
regarding the licensing of Mississauga’s<br />
taxi owners, I cannot<br />
speak <strong>about</strong> their circumstances,<br />
but being involved in the Toronto<br />
Taxi Industry for almost 44 years,<br />
I can tell you with a great deal<br />
of certainty, it would come well<br />
within the purview of the City of<br />
Toronto.<br />
Keeping in mind that the City of<br />
Toronto, with the Province of Ontario’s<br />
permission under the Municipal<br />
Act until January 1, 2007<br />
and after this date under the City<br />
of Toronto Act, 2006, has had the<br />
powers to regulate their taxicab industry<br />
as they deem fit.<br />
In the mid 1960’s, Toronto began<br />
to allow a taxi owner’s licence<br />
to have an intrinsic value, which<br />
included as much as a $5,000<br />
transfer fee payable to the City of<br />
Toronto upon sale of the licence.<br />
Since this transfer fee was well<br />
beyond the province’s guidelines,<br />
which was mandated to be on a<br />
cost recovery basis only, it is rather<br />
obvious that the City profited<br />
from the sale of the licence and<br />
continued to do so until the recent<br />
drive-for-hire bylaw removed the<br />
transfer fee.<br />
Since the City of Toronto profited<br />
from the sale of the taxi<br />
owner’s licence, which continued<br />
for over 50 years and always had<br />
the power of legislation to either<br />
continue or stop the process, how<br />
can the City of Toronto’s legal department<br />
state it is not within the<br />
City’s purview to compensate the<br />
taxi owners when the City set the<br />
bylaws for the taxi industry and<br />
profited from the taxi licence sale?<br />
The City set the rules, allowed<br />
the sale, profited from it thus not<br />
only allowing, but guaranteeing<br />
the taxi owners could predicate<br />
their entire business careers and<br />
retirement on those rules and regulations.<br />
Now 50 years later they<br />
not only totally change the rules<br />
destroying the bylaw guarantees,<br />
but have the unmitigated gall to<br />
say that compensation is not within<br />
their purview?<br />
I have no doubt in my mind that<br />
the courts may have a different<br />
view on this than the City of Toronto’s<br />
solicitors do, but this is the<br />
usual ploy on any matter regarding<br />
the City as they have never taken<br />
responsibility for their actions on<br />
any issue where they are found to<br />
be in violation.<br />
I remain, Gerald H. Manley<br />
checked and the continued <strong>safety</strong><br />
of our city’s taxicab drivers and<br />
consumers is addressed. This in<br />
turn will of course enhance the capabilities<br />
of your officers to more<br />
thoroughly conclude their investigations<br />
into any alleged crimes<br />
that are committed in and around<br />
a city taxicab.<br />
I wish to thank you in advance<br />
for your anticipated involvement<br />
in this serious issue and if I can<br />
personally be of any further assistance,<br />
please do not hesitate to<br />
contact me.<br />
I remain,<br />
Gerald H. Manley<br />
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11 January 2017<br />
L&S MEETING<br />
SCHEDULE 2017<br />
The following is the list of scheduled meetings of<br />
the Licensing and Standards Committee for 2017.<br />
Friday, January 13, 2107<br />
Dec., 2016 no meeting scheduled<br />
January 13, 2017 - 9:30 am<br />
March 6, 2017 - 9:30 am<br />
April 18, 2017 - 9:30 am<br />
May 11, 2017 - 9:30 am<br />
June 14, 2017 - 9:30 am<br />
September 18, 2017 - 9:30 am<br />
October 20, 2017 - 9:30 am<br />
November 20, 2017 - 9:30 am<br />
Dec., 2017 no meeting scheduled<br />
Committee members are: Cesar Palacio (Chair),<br />
Glenn De Baeremaeker, Jim Karygiannis (Vice-Chair),<br />
Giorgio Mammoliti and Josh Matlow.<br />
MEETINGS IN COMMITTEE ROOM 1<br />
Secretariat Contact: Dela Ting, 10 th floor, West Tower, City Hall<br />
100 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M5H 2N2<br />
email: lsc@toronto.ca, or by phone at 416-397-4592 or by fax at 416-392-1879<br />
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