TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP MEETING THIS THURSDAY APRIL 14/16

An alternate title for today's posting could be: DISHONEST POLITICIANS ROUTINELY CORRUPT DEMOCRACY .
This is the history of our new Woolwich Council. As long as their accolytes were running CPAC they could afford to permit citizen delegations, comments from the public and operate in at least an ostensibly democratic fashion. Old CPAC's (Chemtura Public Advisory Committee) had a Delegation section at the beginning followed by a Public Forum section at the end. Everybody who attended the meeting could have their say. The last CPAC from 2011-2015, chaired by Dr. Dan Holt, also allowed questions and clarifications from the floor during the CPAC meeting. Yes all questions went through the Chair but if the CPAC members or other formal attendees asked a question it very well could be one of the better informed members of the public who could supply the answer. Also CPAC members were given first response to questions or questionable claims by Chemtura and the M.O.E. but then Dr. Dan opened it up to the public.

The public TAG meeting will be held in Woolwich Council Chambers this Thursday at 6:30 pm.. The Agenda items include the East Side Soil & Groundwater Investigation, the 2003 Site Specific Risk Assessment, Documents received since the last TAG meeting as well as the Creek contamination issue. Very importantly will be Recommendations to RAC. RAC is co-chaired by Sandy and Mark or in other words by Chemtura. Even jaded citizens in Cambridge operating under the mayor Craig regieme are appalled that two municipal Councillors are in total charge of a so called independent advisory committee to Woolwich Council. What a sham and a farce.

Councillor Mark Bauman was quoted in the Waterloo Region Record claiming that there was a power struggle underway between a number of citizens and Council. I found Mark's statements to be in line with his usual forked tongue, self-serving, factual fictions. Upon second thought I realized that there is a form of power struggle underway with Chemtura Canada and the local citizens. Chemtura wish to lie, misrepresent the truth and to look caring and responsible all the while avoiding their legal and moral responsibilities to clean up their toxic mess in Elmira. The Citizens Public Advisory Committee (CPAC), risen from the ashes of Council abuse of authority, are opposed to Chemtura's wishes. Chemtura's fellow travellors include the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (M.O.E.), certain members of Woolwich Council (Mark, Murray & Sandy) as well as a pair of co-opted citizens appointed to TAG by Sandy. Let us not forget the words of Councillor Merlihan a year ago when he was examining the makeup and protocols for RAC & TAG. He referred to them as "cringeworthy".

So in a nutshell the new CPAC oppose Chemtura's neverending deceit. The only way CPAC opposes Council are if and when Council abuse their authority in support of Chemtura Canada. Unfortunately as we have seen time and time again, this Council are all about illegal and improper abuse of their authority, mostly in support of Chemtura. Whether illegal in camera meetings, illegal campaign financing, illegal banning of Delegations and improper and untruthful attacks upon citizen volunteers; this Council are beyond the pale. Is citizen opposition to Council abuses a "power struggle"? Mark Bauman seems to think so.