I think that was what really set me off back in 2015 with Woolwich Township. They (Sandy & Mark) had just lied and manipulated as well as defamed volunteer CPAC members all to gain support from Uniroyal/Chemtura and the Ministry of Environment (MOE/MECP). They clearly were part of the multi agency (RMOW, GRCA, Woolwich Twn., Ontario-MOE) conspiracy to let Uniroyal/Chemtura off the hook with their relatively inexpensive and ineffective alleged cleanup of our ground and surface waters. Yes the decades of air pollution which likely made many sick and eventually killed others has been improved although it took decades of talk, lies and bulls**t before real action was taken.
Hence I have seen fit to make my contempt and disrespect for Woolwich Twn. very clear. They do not deserve my respect or for that matter anybody else's. Now of course here is where it gets tricky. Every four years we tend to get a new crop of councillors. Should they be automatically condemned for their audacity to run for political office? Should they be condemned for going into office possibly believing that public service is a noble and honourable profession? Obviously not especially if they are young and naive which they would have to be to believe that hooey.
So township councils get second and third and fourth chances and eventually you've lived long enough to understand how the system works. New members are quickly indoctrinated into an us versus them attitude. It's a lot like policemen who are trained to view the citizens they are sworn to protect as often dangerous thugs. Yes a very few likely are but the vast majority of citizens just want to mind their own business and get home at the end of the day without incident.
Woolwich Twn. continues to coddle dangerous polluters and skirt around the law. Just because every second rate politician at all levels (municipal, regional, provincial) and every second rate bureaucrat serving these second rate politicians, long ago decided that the easiest route for them was to go along to get along, doesn't make it right. No one has ever laid out the options, including the do nothing option, clearly for local citizens. No one in authority has ever explained what the environmental effects, much less the human health effects are for constantly permitting Uniroyal and successor corporations to make all the pollution decisions for the rest of us. No one has had the nerve or the honesty to spell out why so many citizens all around us are contracting cancers and suffering and passing on prematurely as a result.
Our authorities/politicians have long ago sold us out and if they had any brains they would realize that they've also sold out their own friends and families just to get themselves re-elected and remain on the gravy train. Is it status and ego or is it money? Hard to believe that Township councillors (other than the mayor) would sell out for the small money involved. Maybe some of them are true believers that those with the money and power should make all the decisions. Maybe on the other hand most of them have connections to the big money locally and are confident that they and theirs will be eventually rewarded if they stay the course.
succinct and bang on! you are so right ! I do not blame Shantz, I blame Bauman and his well connected cronies , what a piece of work. Bauman was Seiling's henchman/minion and Shantz got sucked into the scam. TRUTH IS elections do not make much difference when what has been foisted upon us is a growing army of bureaucratic "sunshine club" members who propagate socialist Marxist agenda's and whose positions/careers are sacrosanct BY DESIGN. This TRICK COMBINATION of elected & bureaucrats is exactly how everything is controlled by the less than 1 % and manipulated NOT FOR the taxpayer and citizen - the real stakeholders!
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