A family member set up my Elmira Advocate Blog for me in early May 2010. It continues generally six days per week less holidays. The focus is on Uniroyal Chemical/Lanxess Canada however municipal, regional and provincial corruption issues are also included.
Just a tiny little article in today's Waterloo Region Record titled "FORMER MAYOR FINED $10,000". Wow apparently the MECAC (Municipal Election Compliance Audit Committee) that handles Stouffville and area take their duties and responsibilities a little more seriously than Woolwich Township does. Can you believe that a sitting Mayor who lost the election decided not to file their election Financial Statements despite the Municipal Elections Act (MEA), a provincial piece of legislation, stating that it is mandatory, regardless? Yes there are some who view our beloved Woolwich Township as "Dogpatch" but that's not really fair. I guess it's mostly the calibre of our politicians as many of the MECAC folks were former Woolwich and area politicians who felt that political loyalties mattered more than the law. Or at least when it was one of their own who flagrantly broke the law.
This article doesn't go into a lot of detail but the violations of the MEA here back in 2015 including former councillor Mark Bauman failing to file Financial Statements for Two or Three elections really was egregious. What is even more concerning is our Waterloo Region judicial systems rallying around the admitted guilty parties who appeared to view the whole thing as some frivolous joke. I am including prosecutors as well as judges.
I guess some municipalities have stricter views on the law than others. Perhaps the rule of law applying to everybody depends on both who you are and where you are. Not a good picture.
Some good news locally. We lost two of the guilty councillors namely Scot Hahn and Mark Bauman. Also Clerk Val Hummel seemed to leave not long afterwards which considering her bad election Finance advice to councillor Bauman was probably appropriate.
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