JUDICIAL BUNGLING OR NOT?

Today's K-W Record follows yesterday's story written by Kevin Swayze describing critics who have applied to Superior Court to have the Cambridge municipal election run again. Today's brief titled "Election appeal stalled" basically advise us that Debbie Vitez and Thomas Vann were allegedly supposed to send a fax confirming the court date that they had received. Odd but I don't recall my dentist, doctor or anyone else ever making such demands. If the courts are worried that you won't show or didn't receive the court date then why don't they follow up with a formal request for confirmation? Sheesh!

Lest we forget a big part of Debbie Vitez's interest in municipal politics has to do with the refusal by Cambridge Council to meaningfully assist their citizens who have suffered horribly due to trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination in the Bishop St. community. All levels of government are remiss from the provincial M.O.E. to Regional health to municipal. At some point in time the media will also come to realize that this contamination and resultant human suffering dwarfs most other similar situations in Canada.