DR. DAN HOLT HAMMERS MURRAY MARTIN & ABUSIVE WOOLWICH COUNCIL

Thursday's Woolwich Observer carrys a Letter To The Editor with the title "Standing up for the environment shoiuldn't invite council's disdain". Dr. Holt is quick to thank all the players in this ongoing environmental saga. He refers to Councillor Murray Martin's comments at the April 5/16 Council meeting when he referred to "those people" and "that kind of people that council is dealing with". Now of course our very own "historical revisionist" on council and psuedo mayor Sandy Shantz may very well stand up at the next Council meeting this coming April 19 and deny it all. Sandy's greatest asset is her ability to weave factual fictions and turn manure into gold.

Murray Martin historically has been careful with his words in public. Something like Councillor Mark Bauman, the pair of them prefer to wield their influence in private although it is such a bother when they have to vote on issues in public. That said both of them have learned the politician's art of talking out of both sides of their mouth on any and all issues thus allowing themselves wiggle room if the winds of voter dissent start blowing in an unexpected direction.

Dr. Holt spoke at both the March 22 and April 5 Council meeting. At the March meeting he thanked Woolwich Council for stepping up and ordering that warning signs be placed along the Canagagigue Creek in three places. These signs were to advise fishermen that eating fish out of the creek is hazardous to their health. This is despite the M.O.E.'s refusal to do so and their latest outrage in which they claim that there is a negligible health risk for humans swimming or wading in the creek. How can they say that when the Ministry of Natural Resources has fish consumption advisories and when they the M.O.E. found both Dioxins and DDT concentrations in the creek sediments way above Human Health criteria?

At the April 5 Council meeting Dr. Holt advised mayor and council that his words and Delegation on March 22 were his and his alone, albeit as Chair of CPAC he was speaking on their behalf. How dare our disrespectful and ignorant mayor baldly state out loud that Dr. Holt was speaking for anyone else other than himself and CPAC. Dr. Holt also read the Editorial in the K-W Record which hammerred Woolwich Council for their extremely ignorant and disrespectful behaviour in banning all Delegations from citizens about Chemtura Canada.

Make no mistake this Council are firmly in bed with Chemtura Canada and their interests. Bauman, Martin and Shantz have been around long enough to know the score and to benefit from it. Councillors Shantz and Hahn are following them most probably on blind faith. I hope that they don't get burned albeit a minor singe could wake them up quickly. Thank you Dr. Dan Holt for once again standing up to the cowards, liars and bullies on Woolwich Council.