I am going to keep the identities private of the persons who sent a very timely, strong, yet diplomatic letter to Woolwich Council back on April 6, 2016. You may recall that this was during the time of one of Woolwich Township's greatest public embarrassments. Mostly Mayor Shantz, aided and abetted by one of her least diplomatic, least politically correct council colleagues namely Murray Martin, took it upon themselves to be publicly rude and disrespectful to Dr. Dan Holt (CPAC Chair) and myself. Most of the rest of Woolwich Council followed their lead by attempting to censor Delegations to Council wishing to discuss Chemtura and the Elmira cleanup. Mayor Shantz of course was already smarting from the public embarrassment of messing up her Financial Statements mandated by the (Ontario) Municipal Elections Act.
The letter started as follows "I watched last night's meeting on Roger's channel 20 and was saddened by a lot of what I saw." The second last paragraph stated "As I reflect on the proceedings of several previous council meetings, as well as last night's, I find that council simply does not follow it's own procedural bylaws, especially when it comes to Section 10, which deal with behaviour at Council meetings."
"Comments both by Mayor Shantz and Councillor Martin last night could be interpreted as violating these following sections: " Three different sub-sections of Section 10 are then listed.
The final sentence in this citizens (non CPAC member) e-mail states "Council should be respected by the public, but it is difficult to do when Council doesn't play by it's own rules."
For current Council members I simply advise that many citizens have long memories, particularly if and when councillors are disrespectful or rude. Also I personally take great offense when politicians /councillors try to hide behind the dignity of their office. Canadians in general respect authority figures until or unless that respect is abused. This includes myself and when Woolwich Council led by Mayor Shantz and Mark Bauman took it upon themselves to personally lie and deceive by personally blaming honest volunteers (CPAC) for Chemtura and the Min. of Environment running and hiding from public meetings, I stepped up.
My mission was simple. O.K. Council if you want to dishonestly throw mud at us personally then just watch what is coming your way. I was on the lookout from that point forward to publicly broadcast the hypocrisy and lack of following rules by Woolwich Township. Between violations of the Municipal Act, Ombudsman reports condemning how Woolwich were holding in camera meetings, and of course the Council trying to censor Delegations by demanding that they go through township committees first before being allowed to speak as Delegates to Council, I succeeded.
I believe that the relationship has vastly improved. Let's keep it that way Woolwich.
Mark Bauman was the most open 2-faced flip-flopper EVER and he employed the "Cloward-Piven" strategy very deliberately and the people and the bureaucrats and his fellow travelers including the Mayor fell for it hook line and sinker! The good news is that Bauman's egregious hypocritical behavior taught all of us a lesson, of the worst case scenario for a politician. As they say in legal terminology, its called; Sucking & Blowing at the same time lol! This behavior is a perfect example of a complete lack of respect and the people will not fall for it again!
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