PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY - TAKE IT AWAY AND MAKE THEM FEEL VULNERABLE

Insulating themselves via a citizen public advisory committee is step one. This likely is one of the reasons Sandy Shantz and other ignorant Woolwich Councillors did their best to prohibit local citizens from speaking as delegations to Council about Chemtura/Lanxess back in 2016. As long as the alleged public meetings weren't covered by the media especially, then Chemtura/Lanxess supporting councillors could claim that they weren't in the know, that they had delegated to the TAG and RAC committees. In fact they delegated the work, the reading and the attending meetings to local citizens while at the same time delegating exactly zero authority to them. Afterall all the mayor had to do was ask Chemtura/Lanxess what they wanted and she could essentially and effectively ignore TAG and RAC if she wanted. ........................................................................................................ It was Pat McLean in 2000 with the support of Susan Bryant who put Woolwich Council in the driver's seat with some UPAC members "agreeing" to the change. Of course Pat lied to all the UPAC members and deceived them into thinking it was simply about clerical and chair duties being taken over by Council. In fact it was Woolwich Council wresting full control and authority away from UPAC. Henry Regier, Esther Thur and I all argued against the move but Pat and Susan had done their lobbying behind the scenes privately and had a majority. In fact it was a demand from Uniroyal Chemical that the public advisory committee had to be under Council control and authority before they Uniroyal would return to the table. That was one of the biggest sellouts by Pat and Susan to date. ..................................................................................................................... Well if the scheming, lying shi.s want the power then make sure they have the accountability as well. Keep them in the loop wherever and whenever possible. Don't let the public ever forget who pays for the Chair. Who appoints the Chair. Who fires the Chair. Who appoints all the members to TAG etc. Some Council members want it both ways. They prefer to be secretly in charge so that if there is good news they can grab the credit then and if there is bad news they can distance themselves. For example Lanxess can't make the decades long promised and mandated 2028 cleanup deadline. So sad says Woolwich Council. Yet it was Woolwich Council who specifically gave CPAC members the boot in 2015 with Sandy and Mark's lying and manipulation. So sad that the MOE/MECP's upcoming Control Order is going to remove the 2028 cleanup deadline. Woolwich will point the finger at both the MOE and likely at the very same CPAC citizen volunteers that they smeared and lied about. ...................................................................................................... Hang every cleanup failure on Council. Hang every broken promise on Council including false promises given by the MOE/MECP as well as those given by Chemtura/Lanxess/Crompton and Uniroyal Chemical. Afterall it was and always has been Woolwich Council enabling all the other stakeholders to lie, deny and avoid their responsibilities. Local councils are supposed to stand up for their citizens not sell them out to corporate polluters and health destroyers.