Let them eat cake - and walk in the cold

Demand for help soaring during Ottawa transit strike - [EDIT: CBC changed the title and some of the content shortly after I published this post, grr]

This is precisely what I've been talking about. The working poor, disabled, elderly, shut-ins, and parents with small children, amongst others, are all suffering needlessly and the recession is hitting Ottawans extra hard because the City and ATU refuse to get it together. Furthermore, the ATU has even threatened to picket some of the extra Para Transpo buses the City has provided because the temporary drivers aren't unionized. The selfishness of the ATU is positively astounding. The union-busting games and ploddingly slow, inadequate aid from the City are deplorable. And the effect of all this drawn-out, pigheaded posturing has been catastrophic for the disadvantaged in this city.

And why have the Feds refused to do anything?

Shame on all of you! Every single last one of you.