PUBLIC NOTICE TO ANY & ALL THOSE DISAPPOINTED/ANGRY/DISGUSTED WITH ANY WOOLWICH COUNCIL DECISIONS SINCE POSSIBLY AS EARLY AS DECEMBER 2014

Here is the bottom line: If you seriously want to challenge any decisions of Council (Woolwich) that you feel were illogical, inconsistent, perverse or even possibly corrupt then there is a way. I believe a fairly certain path in fact. Heck if you even feel that council simply made the wrong decision on an issue without any particular spite, malice or favourtism involved, then have at it. I am basing my opinion on the following. It is my belief that Mayor Sandy Shantz has been sitting as Mayor of Woolwich Township in direct contradiction to a ruling by Superior Court (Kitchener) Justice David Broad since at least July 2015. I stated in the title that decisions possibly as early as December 2014 may be vulnerable to reversal. Of course I am not a lawyer and perhaps if the courts were stimulated to do their judicial duty they might only reverse all council decisions prior to say late March 2015 when Sandy Shantz filed inaccurate, deceptive Financial Statements under the Municipal Elections Act (MEA). ......................................................................................................................... Both MECAC (Municipal Elections Compliance Audit Committee) and Ms. Shantz did admit errors in her Financial Statements which understated the extent of her legitimate election costs. On it's own those errors were significant enough to cause MECAC to ask for corrections. However there was a more significant problem and that was the undisputed fact that Ms. Shantz's multiple "errors" resulted in her total claimed expenses to be below the $10,000 threshold at which she was legally mandated (MEA) to provide an audit of her Financial Statements which she did not do by the March 2015 deadline. There are only a few serious enough miscues, omissions, failures to comply with the MEA that result in the very serious sanction of the sucessful candidate immediately having their councillor or in Ms. Shantz's case, mayoral seat, removed from her. .............................................................................................................................. This sanction by law (MEA) was the duty of the Municipal Clerk of the municipality to undertake. She unfortunately utterly failed to do so both at the March deadline for submission of the Financial Statements and after Ms. Shantz's failures became public knowledge. I believe that the Clerk was uninformed and incapable of properly understanding and following the mandates and requirements of the MEA as I, a citizen with very little training in accounting or the law was able to do. That may explain her first failure although her failure after the facts became known is less understandable. .................................................................................................................. Ms. Shantz embarked on a rather creative strategy in order to keep her new job as Mayor of Woolwich Township. At the first public MECAC meeting in Woolwich Council Chambers on a Monday morning she appeared with allegedly unreleased new Financial Statements plus an Audit written by her personal, albeit qualified accountant. She provided these allegedly less than ten minutes before the start of the meeting including to me and the other parties to the hearing. Rather awkwardly she then a couple of months later in a notarized document advised Justice David Broad that she had provided these documents to the parties on the Friday prior to the Monday morning MECAC meeting. I absolutely did not receive them prior to attending that meeting and all the other parties made it clear that they too had just received them after Ms. Shantz handed them out. I do not rule out the possibility of collusion regarding the provision of these incredibly late documents. .................................................................................................................... Even worse MECAC had absolutely zero legal grounds to accept the Audit now months after the deadline and pretend that all was made whole. It was not. The March deadline was a hard deadline with no either furtive or otherwise actions and behaviour of the candidate possible to negate the failure to so provide the Audit by the legally mandated deadline. MECAC's behaviour and excuses for the Mayor were both pathetic and outrageous. ....................................................................................................................... In July 2015, at what I view as a tawdry court hearing, in which I as the initial complainant, was refused party status and in fact barely allowed to speak until the last moment, Justice David Broad heard the case, such as it was. His eventual decision stated that Ms. Sandy Shantz was reinstated CONDITIONALLY to the Woolwich Mayor's seat. The CONDITIONS INCLUDED that she must file a new Financial Statement with ALL her proper and legitimate (under the MEA) expenses included. That should have been a fairly simple fix for the Mayor. Unfortunately I had kept finding new errors and expenses that the Mayor (Ms. Shantz) had not included in her various reincarnations of her Financial Statement right up until her court appearance. Lo and behold after her CONDITIONAL reinstatement I found yet another significant expense via newspaper photo which she inexplicably failed to include in her last Financial Statement ordered by Justice David Broad. This information I took to both a local Crown Prosecuter (Kitchener) as well finally to a special, out-of-town Prosecuter, Frasier Kelly who was brought in to give the appearance of nuetrality. These Prosecuters "investigated" my private citizen charges, appropriately filed via a Justice of the Peace. Mr. Kelly was a piece of work who at a private interview used himself and a Regional Police Officer in an attempt to intimidate me from continuing to press for charges. The intimidation involved suggesting that I had committed an offense in regards to taping a public MECAC meeting held in Woolwich Council Chambers. What a piece of shit. ................................................................................................................................. So the bottom line is that our authorities with full knowledge that Ms. Sandy Shantz after being given multiple opportunities to file ALL her election expenses, never has done so, nevertheless have not dealt with her according to law. It is possible/likely that Justice David Broad was not advised by the Prosecuters that his Decision was not complied with. This I do not know. It is also possible that yet again, the good mayor privately filed another in a series of late Financial Statements, to the courts and election authorities without providing the initial complainant (me) with either a copy or even a statement that she had included the final, quite clear and obvious election expense in her penultimate Financial Statement. This folks is what I would expect to happen in a third world judicial system, not in Canada.