This is going to be the most absurd thing you have ever read and I fully expect you to ignore it just like much good advice is often read and ignored but try and think about what I am explaining before dismissing it completely. Washroom design in Toronto affects Canada's national security. It's a crazy concept, the two can't be related, there's no way, blah blah, but perhaps if you think about things instead of believing you understand them intuitively you might just grasp the issue at hand.
Philosophy, one's own internal, guides a person to and from many paths in life and many places. Similarly groups start governing themselves by group philosophies derived from individual ones. All together groups form societies that live and thrive in cities and these form provinces such as Ontario that in turn are a part of Canada (for now, you never know!). Now if my philosophy is destructive to what we all need, and I govern others with it, then suddenly I have created a cancerous entity in my city and it will consume it. If the city should fall it will be felt by those around and so on and so forth.
What do I mean by a cancerous entity? Well think of your own bed room for example. It's part of your home just like Toronto is part of Ontario. If you stop sweeping the floor in your bedroom because you have a philosophy that dirt is healthy as it can cure people of asthma according to many scientific reports, then you might be in for a surprise. By not cleaning Toronto regularly you will soon start to spread the dirt to your bed, to other rooms, to the hallway, and so forth. Dust gathers and follows you around. Bugs crawl in, and carry diseases. Pretty soon Ottawa is affect (I'm not yet certain if Ottawa would be a closet or the kitchen!). Either way, cleaning your floor makes so much sense you do not even think about it. Nobody does. It's common sense. And a clean city of Toronto should be common sense, too.
So then why is it when I walk into many coffee shops that have the green notice that their food is clean the washrooms are so filthy that a man with low vision such as myself has to carefully use toilet paper and water to clean the entire bowl, taking two minutes of my life, until the white paper turns brown, orange, green, and yellow? Why am I the one cleaning Toronto's washrooms when it's neither my job, nor am I ideally suited due to my disabilities? If you all could come up with a green food safety sign, why isn't there an orange washroom health sign? Believe it or not a clean floor is an integral part of your quality of sleep in your bedroom, and a clean washroom is a key component of a healthy dining experience, even in a tea shop. Why is the City of Toronto dropping the ball for decades now in this regard? In fact I've been even to Montreal washrooms, Timmy's, that are so filthy that people broke the door to ensure nobody can be locked in one out of fear of people dying from the filth. Or maybe it's another reason, I didn't bother wasting my life figuring out your odd solutions to very simple problems.
This is why washrooms are directly related to national security. While this may be a joke would you want your children even being near such filthy toilets? Would Justin Trudeau sit on a toilet seat covered in more than urine that has been left so long that it's not just dried but has accumulated pieces of all manner of debris? This is what I encounter almost daily in various Tim's, Chinatown tea houses, and other assorted Junk Food Made Me Fat(tm) places. And I haven't even gotten to the point yet. This state of affairs should scare you considering Toronto is considered a world-class city. Granted, most of you will have a ton of excuses such as "Oh come on, there's too many customers we don't have time". But you have time to clean your bedroom floor? You have time to serve me food so that I can get infected when I have to pee? Where's the logic in any of those excuses? Is it in the head's of leaders and management that governs us through fear and threats of lowered wages? Why haven't our lovely Toronto Police Service served and protected us citizens by having one officer going around and checking into these things and following up on them? Isn't public health important to you dweeb heads? I have low vision and I can see a ton of things you all are calling normal.
Here is the meat of these potatoes. Washroom doors are guiding national security policies. They reflect poor decision making that is evident even in high circles of authority and defense I think. I remember going around Toronto in the '90s. I could enter any washroom and pee freely. That was almost two and a half decades. Now when going to the washroom I have to observe carefully the "access procedure". This phrase should never apply to a city washroom but is straight from military lingo, or even security models of the IT world. Starbucks has such complex procedures that there are even ones in our TO core that have, I'm laughing as I write this, FIVE DIGIT NUMERICAL PINS THAT CHANGE OFTEN LIKE A GOD-DAMN VAULT AT A CASINO. Others require a key with a very special lucky charm attachment. Some have codes for washrooms assigned on receipts one gets only if buying a thing. Does this sound to any of you like normal? If so, you might already be a brainwashed zombie, because let me tell you it is anything but normal. Urination is a human right. One should not, ever, under any circumstance, have to pay financially to exercise this right. Ever. City of Toronto is guilty of violating human rights by not ensuring there are clean free to access toilets in the city, clearly marked and open all the time as well as safe. We as a human race moved out of dangerous deserts, and jungles into cities and built moon courses on the moon. In this light the "access procedure" for washrooms, basic urinals and water taps, shows you just how ill-suited the management of these places is at providing a basic human need. And the problem is, these sorts of types also might be governing Canada's defense and police forces with just as ill-conceived rhetorics.
There are washrooms so strangely built that you have to push an electronic button to lock and to be "released" from the pee cage. I kid you not, giant red buttons as if you're a monkey in a lab begging for permission to re-enter the non-peeing and not-filthy and not-covered-in-graffiti environment. And should electricity fail while you're locked in said washroom? Should the electronics devices refuse to open the door? And you don't have a cell phone? What then my dear lovely Torontonians? Do you people even think of all this? Don't you feel now that a simple door with a latch as it was in the '90s was a little bit better and dare I say, wiser? Maybe I'm missing my marbles, in fact, I know I am, someone stole them, but believe me, you do not want to be in a room that smells of urine and feces when electricity fails or circuitry shorts. It's not a nice comforting feeling. In fact, seeing door key pad entries, red push buttons for exit, and similar washrooms should make you cringe and run away to normal toilets. If the public library can have nice clean washrooms with open door access then why is the one across the street at Tim's controlled with a push button like a prison gate? Don't you all see the problem here? I just listed five prison-style control mechanisms for a simple washroom in Toronto where one urinates. Am I talking about Toronto and peeing, or am I talking about a correctional facility or a high-risk proving ground for as-yet-to-be-deemed-intelligent life forms? Who truly made our City of Toronto this ugly? For I sure would never have approved any of this non-sense were it up to me. I want my latched doors back please before we decide our soldiers' uniforms should be thinner to conserve on sewing time.
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