Today's Toronto Sun reports that the provincial government is out to ban smoking everywhere but on your own private property by May 31, 2006.
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While I really do think it's a good idea to protect people - especially people like bar employees who might not have a lot of career choices - from second hand smoke, the province needs to remember that hundreds of establishments in the GTA - an area that probably represents half the province's population and more than half its business - just invested tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in smoking rooms based on the municipalities' assurances that this would allow them to keep smoking customers for at least a few years to come. It's bad enough that they might lose some business from smokers, but some owners are not going to be able to pay off the cost of useless renovations.
I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that a government that has broken one promise after another since being elected would screw over so many small business owners and their employees. They probably know they'll be on their way out of Queen's Park by the time some of these businesses go under and their employees are on the unemployment line.
Thanks, all you fools who fell for the Fiberals' promises and voted for them.
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While I really do think it's a good idea to protect people - especially people like bar employees who might not have a lot of career choices - from second hand smoke, the province needs to remember that hundreds of establishments in the GTA - an area that probably represents half the province's population and more than half its business - just invested tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in smoking rooms based on the municipalities' assurances that this would allow them to keep smoking customers for at least a few years to come. It's bad enough that they might lose some business from smokers, but some owners are not going to be able to pay off the cost of useless renovations.
I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that a government that has broken one promise after another since being elected would screw over so many small business owners and their employees. They probably know they'll be on their way out of Queen's Park by the time some of these businesses go under and their employees are on the unemployment line.
Thanks, all you fools who fell for the Fiberals' promises and voted for them.