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TYRLC 150 years

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1995

Mike Harris is elected and proceeds to implement drastic measures known as the Common Sense Revolution. Social housing and subway projects are cancelled, welfare rates slashed, transit funding ended, labour laws are gutted, employment equity is repealed. Union and community groups come together to resist, and the Metro Network for Social Justice is formed. A series of city-by-city general strikes are launched to oppose the cuts, starting in London.

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