WOOLWICH COUNCIL SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL

It's a crisis at Council. After Mark & Sandy manufactured a crisis at CPAC through private discussions/negotiations with Chemtura and the M.O.E.; now we have the real thing occurring with themselves. It really is disheartening and yet I wonder if they've learned anything.

Yesterday the Waterloo Region Record carried two stories devastating to the credibility of Woolwich Council. The first was the front page, lead story in the Record titled "Banned pesticide found in creek". The second was on the front page of the Local section and was titled "Woolwich broke meeting rules, report says". You know I'm wondering at what point Chemtura are going to throw in the towel and wash their hands of this Council. Afterall what good is the support of local politicians whose credibility and confidence with the citizens is in the crapper?

The front page DDT story exposes the danger to both the public and the environment. Mayor Shantz's simplistic and patronizing comments are indicative of both her Council's and Chemtura's attitude regarding ongoing poisoning of our environment. She states "There's no need for people to panic about the creek". Well in fact a little bit of panic is long overdue. DDT at 2,900 times the Ministry of Environment standards is but one of the multitude of chemicals found in the creek. No one knows how toxic and damaging the interaction between DDT, Dioxins, endosulfan, PAHs, NDMA and so much more really is. Each one of those alone are grotesquely toxic yet our Mayor says there is no need to panic.

Then of course we have this same idiot and corrupt Council dissolving CPAC this past spring, effective three weeks from today on August 31. Now isn't that decision biting them in the butt currently. Go ahead Council and support Chemtura and their partner in pollution the M.O.E.. That really is making you look to be in bed with the corporate polluter and his friends. Meanwhile Mark and Sandy continue to lie to anyone who will listen regarding both Chemtura's leakage of contaminants and Council's replacement of CPAC with lapdogs (RAC/TAG) versus a watchdog as CPAC was for the last four and a half years.

In regards to the Ontario Ombudsman and closed meeting (in camera) sessions, once again our Mayor aptly demonstrates her "leadership" skills. Instead of acknowledging Council's and her failures she chooses to deflect blame onto "citizens". Rather bizarely if not showing signs of paranoia she states that "a group of citizens are trying to bring Council down." She further adds that "they're looking at little things and making them into bigger things than they really need to be". Really? The Ombudsman repeatedly uses the word "illegal". I guess for this Mayor and Council after half of them repeatedly broke the Elections Act what is a little illegality regarding the Municipal Act as well?

These illegal meetings and discussions were for improper and devious purposes as well as contravening the letter and spirit of the law. CPAC were smeared and defamed in these in camera sessions and as well the Mayor admits to discussing "errors" of other Woolwich citizens and volunteers working with rural recreation associations. She is not being forthright then and she is not being forthright now.