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The president of the national union representing more than 300,000 workers, including Ottawa’s cab drivers, vows supporters would be pulling out all the stops in a demonstration starting near Mooney’s Bay this morning.

“The bottom line is we are going to have a massive demonstration,” said Jerry Dias, president of Unifor. “We are going to have one hell of a demonstration. This issue is going to be brought to a head because I’ve had enough.”

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Dias said Unifor planned to bring in busloads of people from Ontario and Quebec to protest what he says is a situation that is completely out of control.

Ottawa police said they were well aware of the planned protest but wouldn’t comment on their planned response.

During Thursday afternoon’s rush hour, Airport Taxi drivers staged a surprise two-hour demonstration that began about 3:30 with the unionized drivers deliberately driving slowly and tying up traffic behind them as they proceeded southbound from the Airport Parkway to Bronson Avenue.