After a dozen days, the maintenance workers’ strike had limited bus and subway service to peak hours and late evenings. The law introduces public “well-being” as a criteria for designating essential services and limiting workers’ right to strike. Yet despite transit workers ending their strike prematurely, the minister is nevertheless proceeding with his plan to table the measure to fast-track the law’s implementation. In 2023, the Ontario Superior Court ruled that legislation revoking Toronto transit workers’ right to strike was unconstitutional and that supposed harms or inconveniences to particular populations was not a sufficient reason to limit the right to strike. According to Eidlin, media preoccupation with the inconvenience caused to transit riders by the strike has obscured other important issues.