Should All City Councillors Be Required to be Drug Tested?

[EntertainmentMan2000]

In light of the recent events in Toronto, should city councilors ALL be required to take random drug testing?

 

[GPIDEAL]

Municipal Licensing requires that licensees get a criminal background check!

So perhaps drug testing for our politicians might be a good idea.

 

[blackrock13]

Only if all other city staffers agree to their being tested, like that's ever going to happen.

 

[MRBJX]

I'd rather have them tested on intelligence, ethics and morals.

 

[Keebler Elf]

I'd rather have them tested on intelligence, ethics and morals.

*Laughing*

Good one!

 

[rafterman]

Only if they're in a bad car crash or a "train wreck".

 

[gcostanza]

No .

 

[blackrock13]

Wonder what the OP thinks.

 

[EntertainmentMan2000]

No .

Why?

 

[harryass]

nay. so would you want to be tested whenever at work?

 

[MattRoxx]

Of course not.

In light of the recent events in Toronto, should city councilors ALL be required to take random drug testing?

No.
Even though it is typical for a Conservative politician to so abuse a system that new rules or oversights need to be started up so that it doesn't happen again.

But council should have some process in place to remove a mayor who has lost the trust of everyone through habitual crack-smoking, being drunk in public and in his car and essentially using his political career to cover his gang-related activities.

 

[Ridgeman08]

Yes, absolutely. ALL government employees should be...

Will it ever happen?

Not a chance. Wanna know why? Because THEY are the ones that would legislate such a thing- and therefore it will never happen.

 

[cuttysark]

I would push for two term limits before drug testing. I think this should be an election issue.

 

[EntertainmentMan2000]

(salary is not paid by the public / taxpayer..

This point exactly.

 

[harryass]

Yes - all government employees (federal, provincial, regional & municipal) should be subject to drug testing


I am not a government employee (salary is not paid by the public / taxpayer... but I would pass any drug test at any time

So what your not a government employee and you would pass. Why limit it too government staff? So no drug testing for commercial pilots, dentists, oilr/gas riggers, heavy equipment operators, truck drivers, private doctors, train engineers, etc.?

 

[red]

No drug testing without probable cause

 

[Aardvark154]

Can we somehow meld this thread into the threads where people complain about government action as a violation of the whole world's privacy rights? I'm looking with interest towards the explanation of how this would be OK and the NSA etc. . . are not.

 

[afterhours]

Can we somehow meld this thread into the threads where people complain about government action as a violation of the whole world's privacy rights? I'm looking with interest towards the explanation of how this would be OK and the NSA etc. . . are not.

you don't see how different standards may apply to Joe Schmoe and to a politician who is entrusted with Joe Schmoe's money?

 

[good to go]

They are responsible for spending billions of our tax dollars, it is the least that they should do.

 

[Azprint]

There should be cavity searches performed at City Hall for anyone working there.