WOOLWICH TOWNSHIP DISHONESTY

Every single Woolwich Councillor should step up and listen carefully to the Minutes of the MECAC meeting of October 26, 2015. Then they should equally as carefully read these Minutes posted on the Township's website since December 7, 2015. At that point Woolwich staff responsible for them should be given 24 hours to remove them. If you think Councillors that this is too short a time period then relisten for a second time to those recorded Minutes and reread the written version on-line.

Senior staff including CAO have been in possesion of my e-mail listing a number of gross errors in the Minutes, since December 9/15. I and others were informed on December 7 that the Draft Minutes had been posted and would remain so awaiting public comment until December 14/15. They would then be sent to MECAC for their approval and the approved Minutes would be posted by Friday December 18/15. This has not occurred and the grossly inaccurate and misrepresentative Draft Minutes have been posted on the Township's website now for over three weeks.

I have reread them again this morning as well as my December 9/15 e-mail to the Township staff and politicos. As indicated in my December 9/15 e-mail there were many errors and inaccuracies in the Draft Minutes that I didn't explicitly refer to. That said let me acknowledge that there are some important, accurate statements captured sucessfully in the Minutes both from myself and from Richard Clausi. As bad as those Draft Minutes are there is enough truth in them to give pause to any unbiased and knowledgable readers who are familiar with the Municipal Elections Act (MEA) as well as with the responsibilities of a MECAC.

MECAC members have displayed their ignorance in the Minutes with their statements such as page four "...the changes were adequately explained by the candidate.". Further page five "...all issues had been addressed."and " ...that all concerns raised by Mr. Marshall had been fully explained by Shantz.". That last one is especially false. Yes some had been partially addressed and explained by the candidate but that specifically as per case law provided to MECAC, Council and the prosecuter is NOT an acceptable reason to avoid ordering a Compliance Audit. Also it is MY "reasonable concerns" that are the threshold for a Compliance Audit, not MECAC's. Finally mayor Shantz and MECAC did NOT respond at all to my specific concerns regarding mayor Shantz's twelve You Tube Videos produced by Councillor and cousin Larry Shantz.

Both MECAC and mayor Shantz behaved ignorantly, unprofessionally and hypocritically at this hearing on October 26/15. The mayor went on a personal rant about myself rather than address her election contraventions honestly. MECAC did receive a very strong, written, critical Application from myself on September 15/15. Clearly they were all acting like entitled children spoiling for a fight. I took the high road throughout the hearing and was polite and respectful throughout. Anyone who says otherwise is a damned liar. Woolwich Townships' full and complete tape recordings will prove my honesty and Woolwich's dishonesty and or incompetence. Obviously the cowards at Woolwich Township will never publicly play them.