A retired worker with the Toronto Transit Commission has launched a court case against the agency, alleging it violated the province’s Environmental Protection Act by allowing harmful contaminants into the city’s subway system. “This issue effects not only workers obviously who are in the system, but as well anyone who uses the system,” Gillespie said. Two unions representing TTC workers said they support the prosecution and hope it will prompt the agency to improve air quality in the subway system. “To that end, we have undertaken numerous tests on the air quality in the subway system over the past few years, and results show we are well below provincially mandated guidelines. Any person in the province can bring a private prosecution by appearing before a justice of the peace and swearing information under oath about an alleged violation of the law.

Source: thestar November 29, 2019 21:26 UTC