James O'Grady
I am the founder of Unpublished Media Inc., a company I started in 2012. I am also a communications professional and community activist, living in Nepean, Ontario. And, I am a hockey goaltender, political hack and most importantly, an advocate for grassroots, participatory democracy at all levels of government.
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Interesting letter, thanks for sharing. I know a little bit about this as it has happened in other rural municipalities in the Ottawa Valley. At the heart of the issue, which you may not realize, is the way in which integrity commissioner reports are created and then published. In the research I’ve done, I’ve found that the process is neither legitimate nor legal in my opinion. Like the strong mayors powers, it is being used to silence dissenting voices. Dissenting voices of whom? Of the city Administration.
So, what’s happening across the region is that you have Adminstrators who are using the integrity commissioner reporting system to attack elected councillors and a mayor in one instance, who are questioning how they are doing their job. VOICE is a response to these attacks. It may seem unusual bc. It is, but so is using a really questionable integrity commissioner system to attack and discredit elected officials. Ruining their careers, causing undue financial and psychological harm.
Keep in mind these small municipalities work very closely with local developers. Like hand-in-hand. If there’s corruption in your municipality, I’d start there…
If it doesn’t protect us from the US, what’s the point? Russia can’t get their ballistic missiles off the ground. Who else is going to threaten us with missiles? No one…
It’s a huge game, but if they can maintain their discipline as they did last week, they have a good chance.
Unless it’s not the same. Carney is really a Red Tory. But they don’t have a party any more and they will never vote for a rightwing extremist so now he’s running as a Liberal. But he’s not a politician and he’s not Trudeau, so it’s not the same. Not even close.