NEW FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE COMING

That is six of them. Six brand, spanking new Financial Statements to pour over. Some might think that this would be six brand new opportunities to embarrass and humiliate this council all over again. They would be wrong. Sure I had some fun last time around. Putting Mark and Sandy through their paces was necessary. Scott was a little different. For him it wasn't personal at the beginning. His Financial Statement was just too incredibly buggered and wrong to be ignored hence Dr. Dan Holt didn't. That said at least Scott submitted the one Financial Statement required and on time unlike both Mark and Sandy. Mark's screw up was just laziness whereas Sandy's was the most deceptive of the three. She submitted her major Financial Statement on time but did not submit her mandatory Audit Report until months after the deadline and only when confronted about it.

Now we have Murray, Larry and Sandy all as acclaimed candidates. Anyone want to guess if any of those three are dumb enough to try what Mark got away with for at least two Acclamations before I dropped the hammer on him? There is lots of dumbness potential there but I'm equally sure that the Municipal Clerk will also step up this time and do her job.

Then we have Patrick, Scott McMillan and Fred Redekop. The last two are brand new and most susceptible to honest mistakes. That is not only because they are brand new but because I suspect they are also honest. Patrick knew better four years ago and I'm pretty confident he will do it right this time as well.

Finally we have the Financial Statements of the unsuccessful candidates. Yes they too must submit them. I've never seen a Financial Statement from Julie-Anne Herteis although she is some sort of book keeper apparently. But then so is Sandy allegedly. That didn't stop Sandy from using some illegal creativity four years ago so maybe there is hope yet for some rule bending and and ignoring this March when the Statements are required.

Citizens are learning and watching. Political oversight and transparency are generally pathetic but every now and again the old adage about not being able to fool all of the people all of the time comes true.