“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 — not that they aren’t working at home, but it really affects the downtown.”
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Well, I can at least respect the honesty, rather than the typical “collaborative work” bullshit.
My manager was honest about it for the first time and I had to call him out for saying we’re expected to keep downtown areas alive when they could convert office buildings into living spaces with people there 24/7.
Downtown Ottawa services closed at 2:30pm when all public servants still went to work at the office!
For the love of god, won’t someone please think of the parking garages!
The entitlement Ford shows for business owners to other peoples money and time absolutely disgusts me.
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
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?
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…
I bet the restaurants would do a lot better if everybody got a raise.
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The shock that we reelected this turd still hasn’t worn off for me. I’m afraid that the next provincial election might cause even more trauma.
So we’re supposed to truck ourselves for an hour or more in a car, at our expense, to spend money in a downtown that we can’t afford to live in, so that landlords–who are already rich–can get richer? How about landlords pull themselves up by their bootstraps, stop buying lattes and avocado toast, and cancel their Disney+ subscription?
Also:
Amen.
In order to make the property values of a downtown rise, they must first be a necessary destination, and that’s where all the back to office bullshit comes from, they don’t want to put public funds towards this, affordable rents, public spaces, etc. they want it to grow value organically by forcing people to have to go there in the first place, you see
Yes, that’s exactly what he wants. Ford wants you to be miserable, develop commute related mental health problems, burn through your money buying lunch since you don’t have time to make it at home, miss time with your family, gain weight, pollute the atmosphere and then leave at the end of the day be a use you can’t afford to live there. All so corporate landlords and restaurant owners can get their God given cut of your money.
Meanwhile, of course, he is whining about the high cost of living while he schemes to increase it for everyone who works at home.
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Hmm… I’m starting to get the impression this Doug Ford guy is a bit of a hypocrite…