By Mark Vandermaas - www.VoiceofCanada.ca
IMPORTANT: Be advised that, as per Council’s vote last night, until further notice, any mail - electronic or post - sent to Mayor Trainer at her Haldimand County address is no longer private, and may be distributed to staff and/or other council members at the discretion of the Chief Administrative Officer.
Last night I, along with Gary McHale, Jeff Parkinson, Donna Pitcher, Merlyn Kinrade and many other residents of Haldimand, watched a farce worthy of a Monty Python production during which council put forth a last minute change to their repugnant resolution which Council approved by a vote of 5-1. Councillor Grice opposed.
The new resolution says that the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) will get copies of the mayor’s correspondence, not the entire council. He will also have the authority to distribute your mail as he sees fit. This means, of course, that you and your mayor now have no privacy.
Attack on mayor’s privacy was revenge for speaking out against McGuinty
In a delicious and, no doubt, inadvertent revelation, Grice defended council’s attack on the mayor’s privacy by confronting her about her decision to publicly speak about the fact that she disagreed with council’s decision not to blame the province in a county press release regarding the native occupation of the Douglas Creek Estates. There is now little doubt that council’s attack on the mayor was motivated by revenge, not by legitimate mail distribution concerns.
