text: This isn't as bad as it seems: 
  Privatization has already delivered a significant improvement for all Torontonians, simply by putting the fear of competition into the unionized public waste collectors.
  If not for that, do you think we'd see the efficiency and cost improvements that put city waste collectors on the same plane as the private collectors?
  
  Just another example of what allowing private firms to compete, can do to provide benefits to citizens and taxpayers.
  
  Pandora's box has been opened - we are unlikely to return to the Miller-era of sole-sourced, union-only garbage collection, which means that we are less likely to be held hostage like we were in 2009.