Saturday, August 8, 2015
WOOLWICH COUNCIL & STAFF CORRUPTION
Well it's official that Woolwich are corrupt as in riddled with errors. I only asked the Ombudsman to investigate a few particularily egregious cases regarding council's use and abuse of in camera meetings and boy did we hit a home run. I have said here before that Council liars love in camera meetings because there they can allow their imaginations/obfuscations to run wild. At an in camera meeting they can lie to their colleagues for improper purposes and their colleagues aren't legally allowed to tattletale on them. It's a liars paradise.
The other improper purpose of in camera meetings is to allow Council to practice dirty tricks and deeds outside the scrutiny of the public. For example Council wished to find a way around the embarassing situation of having only eight Applications by last November 30th, the new CPAC application deadline. Five CPAC members had reapplied, myself plus two more applicants allegedly unknown to Council (horse manure!). This was discussed improperly and illegally at the January 13/15 in camera meeting according to the Ombudsman's Report located on page 238-253 of the Council package for this Tuesday evening 6 pm.. Furthermore this in camera meeting allowed Mark and Sandy to state false allegations about myself and CPAC members to the rest of Council. Not only is the very early date of January 13 interesting but the Ombudsman has advised us that Council were discussing (false) "performance" issues which I suggest that the polluter (Chemtura) and their corrupt regulator(M.O.E.C.C.) were spewing forth to their fellow travellors.
Other nasty issues by Council include further backddor and backroom disparaging of Woolwich volunteers. This included the January 20/15 in camera meeting discussing volunteer recreation associations. Once again embarassing information to the Township Staff and or Council members can be hidden from the public including personal opinions aka gossip blaming volunteers for Staff and Council mistakes.
The Ombudsman has properly brought Council and senior Staff's (Clerk and CAO) ongoing multiple errors and illegalities (Ombudsman's word) to light. While yet again Council and Staff are using words such as "inadvertent" and "oversight" and the Ombudsman has not categorically dismissed their excuses; I can and do. They have a long history of not only breaking their own Procedural By-Laws, Committee Terms of Reference, Elections Act and Municipal Act procedures and processes but also of using in camera meetings for improper, devious purposes. This Council and Township are not behaving in the public interest but in their own.
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“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”
ReplyDelete― Henry Kissinger
I love that quote. It's similar to the one about it not being fair that 99% of lawyers make all the rest look bad.
ReplyDeleteHello Mr. Marshall; I am convinced that it is better (less painful) to be educated by someone that is wize man than to "learn" the hard way by making mistakes. Like you, I am highly motivated to hate corruption especially when it is evident all around us. What bothers me the most is that the majority put up with it nowadays. We are all in big trouble. here are a few more quotes from our peers.
ReplyDelete“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything” ― Albert Einstein
and
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King, Jr.
PS: When attacked, I always seek the truth and will never shut-up! Truth=Freedom
Article today in KW-Record states "Mayor Sandy Shantz acknowledged the contraventions, the latest in a series of Woolwich council controversies. Shantz said a group of citizens are trying to bring council down. and "There's a group of residents who are unhappy with certain decisions that we've made and so they're trying to tie our hands and they're looking at little things and making them into bigger things than they really need to be," and "Shantz said council has fulfilled its obligations to the public and is working to improve on any challenges. "I think it's been a very transparent council and I know that this council is very concerned with transparency," she said.
ReplyDeletePersonally I think it is time for our public servants to sit down, shut up and fix the problems they created and serve ALL the citizens of Woolwich and Waterloo Region. Being just a typical politician in Woolwich does NOT work, no matter who you are. We already have the tyrants at work in Ottawa and the deviants at work at the Ontario level so now it is critical that we do NOT allow our grassroots public servants to be corrupt.
Shantz has an amazing reality distortion field. After the Ombudsman finds that council held improper in-camera meetings, she says, "I think it's been a very transparent council and I know that this council is very concerned with transparency". So she THINKS it's been transparent, and the council is concerned with transparency (but not necessarily for it). Your mayor, ladies and gentlemen.
ReplyDeletePCL-R, a psychological assessment CHECKLIST for psychopathy lists the following as the first 17 factors;
ReplyDeleteglibness and superficial charm, grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, cunning/manipulative, lack of remorse, emotional shallowness, callousness and lack of empathy, unwillingness to accept responsibility for actions, a tendency to boredom, a parasitic lifestyle, a lack of realistic long-term goals, impulsivity, irresponsibility, lack of behavioural control...
Does this sound like a public SERVANT?