LAST NIGHT'S STRAIGHTFORWARD, BLUNT DELEGATION TO COUNCIL REGARDING CPAC

Last evening at 6 pm. I was a Delegate to the Woolwich Committee of the Whole. I spoke to last Thursday evenings public CPAC meeting which was attended by five of the six Councillors. Details of that meeting are here in the Advocate last Friday and Saturday. I repeated both Councillor Bauman's quote at CPAC about them being a "talented group of people" as well as mentioning that their qualifications and credentials left mine and all of Councils' in the dust.

The last paragraph of my Delegation pulled no punches. Here it is in it's entirety:

"This Council and or your representatives (Mark & Sandy) have thrown CPAC under the bus. The wheels of the bus include Chemtura, the Ministry of Environment and others with equally self-interested motives (Pat & Susan). The distribution, on Township letterhead, of the April 9/15 "meeting minutes" directly and dishonestly blamed CPAC for thirteen different "Roadblocks to Progress". Five of you saw and heard CPAC's professional presentation on downstream DDT last Thursday evening yet your Township Minutes question CPAC's "qualifications and confidence to provide technical feedback to Chemtura and the MOE". Those Minutes include alleged solutions which will gut true, honest public consultation. They are the blueprint Chemtura requires in order to protect and insulate them from public scrutiny and accountability. You Woolwich Council have a simple decision. Support the CPAC that your predecessor Council appointed and supported for four years or jump in bed with Chemtura. It is that black and white despite the posturing and obfuscations in the April 9 minutes."