WHAT DOES WOOLWICH TOWNSHIP HAVE IN COMMON WITH THE REGION OF WATERLOO?

 

That's actually pretty easy. Bad governance is the answer. One can look at how the Region appear to be violating a recent Court Decision ordering them not to dismantle the tent city sitting on Victoria St. near Weber. One can also look at the Region's mishandling of both the Victoria Park encampment and the Charles St. tents they bulldozed a few years back. Or heaven forbid simply look at where their so called control of groundwater has gotten us. Within a decade they will be pushing a Lake Erie pipeline down our throats.

None of these issues however were mentioned by Mike Farwell in his Opinion piece in todays' Waterloo Region Record. Mike was criticizing how our municipalities, school boards and Region of Waterloo have been denying us our democratic right to vote far too often. He lists numerous examples of Guelph, Kitchener, WRDSB and the Region of Waterloo filling vacancies caused by death or retirement by appointment versus by a democratic election.

Here's the thing. Mr. Farwell missed Woolwich Township which did the very same thing in 2021 only significantly worse. Now I'm also remiss here in that I assumed the naughty school board was the WRDSB when in fact it could have been the Separate  (Catholic) School Board. I'm really not sure which (or both?) Mr. Farwell was figuratively throwing stones at. Finally Mr. Farwell does applaud the City of Cambridge for holding a proper byelection in 2023.

Back to Woolwich. They not only held their own citizens in contempt by refusing them a byelection but they also rigged the appointment process.  Yes I said "rigged". I did not say "appeared to rig". I did not say "were alleged to have rigged". I said "rigged". Yes in this day and age especially with what passes for justice here in Waterloo Region I am taking a risk. Also I might add that while there was a time when I didn't have much use for the pre-arranged "winner" of the appointments process; that has changed. Since losing the following real election I have learned a number of positive things about Julie Ann Herteis from a couple of people I respect. I repeat ever since the rigged appointment process quite frankly I have only heard positive, good things about her character and intelligence. Yes I was surprised but I'm not too old to admit when I'm wrong. 

Hence if there is any fallout from this Blog posting I hope it falls solely on the Mayor and Council at the time for their incredibly petty, ignorant and who knows possibly illegal behaviour. Julie Ann may have been the recipient of Council's self-serving largesse but I don't have any knowledge that she was part of the conspiracy.