Diamond Taxi Veteran Driver Stories: 02/01/2008

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Preserve our Québec-Charter-of-Human-Rights-and-Freedoms

We NEED! Your Support!
Preserve our Québec-Charter-of-Human-Rights-and-Freedoms

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

'Are we really equal?'

"no room in the bed to sleep"...No wonder I do not sleep well!

365 Day - So what does, 1CA King bed + 2 large dogs + 1 man + 1 woman equal?

Un reportage de la CBC (17 aout 2007) mettant en vedette Arieh Perecowicz, un chauffeur de taxi montréalais de religion juive à qui le Bureau du Taxi a infligé une amende de $166 pour avoir eu une Mezouzah dans sa voiture. Il a eu la même amende pour avoir osé afficher un coquelicot, emblème des anciens combatants et du jour du Souvenir dans son taxi। Et une autre amende semblable pour une photo de sa fille.Je n'ai jamais vu sa fille, mais des Mezouzahs dans les cadres de porte, il y en a partout. Même au bureau de Taxi Diamond (surtout coté administration). Et venu le mois de novembre, les coquelicots s'affichent sur bien des boutonnières. Et tout cela n'a jamais vraiment dérangé personne.D'un autre coté, il pourrait mettre le coquelicot à sa boutonnière comme tout le monde, la photo de sa fille dans son portefeuille et la Mezouzah...bien moi je la camouflerais dans le truc en plastique qui retient la ceinture sécurité. Elle serait ainsi à l'abris des regards des inspecteurs du Bureau du Taxi.
English Translation
A CBC-TV-NEWS (17 august 2007) reported; on ‘star’ Arieh Perecowicz, a driver of a Montréal-taxi, of a Jewish-religion, that the Office of the Bureau de Taxi inflicted a fine of $166 for having a Mezuzah in his car।
As well; the same ticket had dared him: from posting a poppy, emblem of the former combatants, and Remembrance-day (WW2) in his taxi। And yet another amends forbidding a display of his daughter’s photo.
I never saw his daughter, but Mezuzahs on door’s posts? There are some everywhere! Even in the office of Taxi Diamond (especially quoted administration). And during the month of November, the poppies post themselves on several lapels. All of this never ever disturbed anyone.
Yet, quote another option; He could pin the poppy to his lapel, as everyone, and the photo of his daughter in his wallet… but, the Mezuzah. ..OK! Me I would conceal it in the plastic that keeps the security-belt. Therefore, she would be ‘under-cover’ from the eyes of the inspectors of the Office of the Bureau de Taxi.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Discrimination against Handicapped in Wheelchairs

Hey you.. you in the wheelchair... Get Lost

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/index.html

Cabbie on Handicapped Crusade

Disabled Shunned, forced to wait longer for taxis, Veteran says

Crusader cabbie Arieh Perecowicz is going to bat for handicapped customers (including the one in wheelchairs) he claims are shunned by: insensitive taxi-drivers, insensitive Bureau de Taxi, and insensitive Diamond-Taxi Association of Montreal.

Perecowicz launched a one man battled within the taxi-industry around 1997-1998 to fight what he says is blatant discrimination against the disabled.

He is only asking the industry to do a humane thing:
That, all dispatched-calls (at Diamond/Veteran Taxi dispatched center) be dispatched as regular calls, regardless of their special needs.

Arieh Perecowicz, a Veteran taxi behind the wheel of a cab, accuses colleagues of refusing fares when they are told by dispatch-center that the client is handicapped.

A cabbie will take 70 pounds of a suitcase from a customer, at the airport, but not a 17 ounce walker.

As a result; disabled callers are sometimes forced to wait up to a half an hour longer than regular customers, for a taxi.

He says refusing fares (the disabled) breaches both the company’s (Diamond/Veteran) internal regulations and a bylaw under the Montreal Urban Community’s taxi Bureau (The Bureau de Taxi).

Perecowicz has lodged official complaints with the Bureau de taxi, Diamond/Veteran Management, and the Provincial agency, for handicapped people.

ONLY AFTER Perecowicz had gone PUBLIC to the MEDIA (The Montreal Gazette & TV-News), the matter has been resolved by The Bureau de Taxi director Richard Boyer & by Diamond/Veteran Taxi Association CEO-President Dominic Roy.
All parties been advised to accommodate customers with special-needs.

Dispatchers were giving drivers the option to refuse handicapped customers, Perecowicz said.
A sample of such a call being dispatched was, as follows:
“Triple five, do you take a wheelchair?”
Perecowicz, cab number being 555, requested the dispatcher to repeat the call. After realizing the error, the dispatcher then apologized, saying: “Sorry, I’m not supposed to do that.”

The Quebec Human-Rights Commission REFUSED to open a file because it does NOT accept third-party complaints.

Claire Chenard of the Office des Personnes Handicapées du Québec, whom Perecowicz said he contacted recently, could not be reached for comments.

“There are lots of empty promises; they are hoping it will just blow away.”

Story was publish in the Montreal-Gazette, Tuesday, July 10, 2001 on page: ‘A3’ http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/index.html

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

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The INVESTIGATION Stage

Des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse
Direction de la protection et de la défense des droits
Bureau de Montréal

Réf. : Mtl – 018168 – Arieh Perecowicz/Ville de Montréal/Bureau de taxi

January 22, 2008
Le 22 janvier, 2008

Mr. Perecowicz,
M. Perecowicz,

Please take note that after review and discussion, the Commission has decided to proceed with an investigation following your complaint.

Prend note s'il vous plaît qui après la revue et la discussion, la Commission a décidé de procéder avec une investigation suivant votre plainte.

The case will therefore be transferred to Mr. Serge Marquise, Vice-Director of the Service of Investigation, who will assign it to an investigator as soon as possible.

Le cas sera donc transféré à M. Serge Marquise, le Vice-directeur du Service d'Investigation, qui il assignera à un investigateur le plus tôt possible.

We wish to remind you that at any stage of the procedures, any complaint filed with the Commission can be submitted to mediation or settled through an agreement between the parties involved.

Nous souhaitons vous rappeler qui à n'importe quelle étape des procédures, n'importe quelle plainte classée avec la Commission peut être soumise à la médiation ou réglée par un accord entre les partis impliquées.

Yours truly,

Emilie Pelletier, Lawyer
Preliminary Assessment Advisor
Le vôtre véritablement,
Emilie Pelletier, l'Avocat
Conseiller d'Evaluation Préliminaire
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