Scanned, recopied or Internet copy, if there are errors, please e-mail me with corrections: Opening comments: More at the end. To the main Judicial Inquiry page - to the Hazel McCallion page. Mississauga News - Jul. 8, 2010 - By Louie Rosella - lrosella@mississauga.net Judge shoots down mayor's request Commissioner Douglas Cunningham has rejected Mayor Hazel McCallion's attempt to limit the scope of the judicial inquiry and said he will use a common sense approach in determining whether she is guilty of any misconduct. Comments by others - 11 - to this web-page at time of posting; ComeOn Jul 8, 2010 5:27 PM Muse Pep Talk Time on the Hazel McCallion Scandal Muse Mayor Hazel admits to attending her son's land deal meetings -- that is wrong. Until today we knew of at least two meetings now we know it was many many more and that people were pressured by her to make the deal happen for her son. Stay tuned more to come. Now as for her reading stuff -- look the deal with OMERS was for 10% of the City's largest asset Enersource worth hundreds of millions of dollars. If you were to read just one thing at the City which 20 pages would you read? You are being BSd! * Agree 1 ComeOn Jul 8, 2010 5:18 PM Muse Muse Muse First Innocent to proven guilty-- oh but wait-- she admitted to the meetings MUSE. Hazel McCallion admitted to some of the meetings. Today she had some help remembering a pile more of them---OOOOOPs. So let us stop beating the Innocent until proven guilty drum. You are right that this is not a criminal proceeding and I have never ever said it was. I have consistently called upon the Mayor to come clean and for the Inquiry to be allowed to drill down to the truth. I have my opinion on what the Mayor's future holds and what charges should apply but that is not necessarily where the Inquiry is going. Keep in mind this judge does not answer to you or I and might have his own take on what will happen later. I do not know. I do know that you are giving her too much slack. I will detail that in the next note. * Agree 1 The Mississauga Muse Jul 8, 2010 5:13 PM @ ComeOn If she is innocent why hundreds of thousands of tax dollars for lawyers?...Muse you are letting the Hazel sycophants get to you." No, ComeOn. This is about being Canadian! People are innocent until proven otherwise (and a reminder, these aren't criminal proceedings). Next. It's been my observation (and much of it on video) that the Mayor (and elected officials) are totally dependent on Staff. Totally! I know from many Audit Committees that the Mayor knew that policies were in place and had expected that they be followed. I have video of her being REASSURED by her own Staff that they were being followed. Staff lie even to her! And it's those times when I have huge sympathy for the Mayor. * Agree Think About It Jul 8, 2010 4:38 PM When it comes down to falsifying the books, it’s peculiar Ms McCallion would think of pulling the wool over the same eyes that assessed the damage from Walkerton municipal employees Stan and Frank Koebel * Agree ComeOn Jul 8, 2010 4:33 PM Sorry Muse I am not buying it If she is innocent why hundreds of thousands of tax dollars for lawyers? Why are we paying so that she can use a tax paid lawyer to ask the Inquiry to move the questioning until after the election? Then her team tries to limit the whole thing to whether or not she is in compliance with the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act which is a little like saying: I am off to rob a bank and all I want to be held accountable for is my driving to and back from the bank. As the Inquiry concluded something can be wrong without it having anyting to do with the MCIA. Muse you are letting the Hazel sycophants get to you. They are grasping at anything to stay relevant. The Mississauga Muse Jul 8, 2010 4:24 PM @ ComeOn there are plenty of innocent people who need lawyers too If only for protection from the lawyers trying to nail you. You know, like to prepare you for what you might be facing in way of questioning? The Mayor having a lawyer isn't about innocent or guilty. It's about fairness of process. I have to say that I'm disappointed that the Mayor's lawyer tried that tack. Remember, McCallion has a rep as longest-standing Mayor in Canada, an Exemplar-mayor who runs the tight "Trust, Quality Excellence" ship and as you pointed out. Commissioner Cunningham must know too that the Mayor has long-served as a Board of Director on Association of Municipalities of Ontario, played big in Canadian Federation of Municipalities and McCallion claiming she thought conflict of interest only applied to council meetings... sure, the Silent Majority Mississaugans will swallow that whole. But not Cunningham. * Agree ComeOn Jul 8, 2010 1:43 PM Time Has Come To Put The Friends Of Hazel On Suicide Watch Let me be clear I am not saying they would but we would all feel pretty guilty if something did happen and no one had checked in with them. Wow how sneeky trying to get the Inquiry to put blinders on so they would not consider such little thing like corruption. Just stick to the narrow definition created by councillors who are not lawyers or investigators just a group that voted to do the right thing on issues that were beyond a council to look into. Now I have to say if our Mayor has not done anything then why in the world have your lawyer(s) play this farse? Hey Snap time to tell me that I should let Hazel be above the law -- go for it! * Agree 1 The Mississauga Moose Jul 8, 2010 1:21 PM @ Spam Queen Nessuno se ne importa! Resa!!!!! * Agree The Mississauga Muse Jul 8, 2010 12:28 PM @ The Mississauga Moose Regarding the pic at "http://www.flickr.com/photos/43172810@N00/3549015999/ I agree. The photo does do me justice. Notice the message! "QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES?" In Mississauga? NO ONE. As the Inquiry is discovering with new revelation. Notice too that I'm wearing a Malton hockey sweater. I've been trying unsuccessfully since September 2007 for Mississauga to investigate the treatment of youth/minors (especially blacks) at Malton Community Centre. Also went up before Council to try and get a Peel Police officer inside Malton Community Centre as a mini-Community Station there. "QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES?" No one. * Agree The Mississauga Moose Jul 8, 2010 12:17 PM THE REAL MUSE "Marching to the beat of a different drummer since March 2007.... " posted by the spam queen herself, May 2009 http://www.flickr.com/photos/43172810@N00/3549015999/ BTW, the photo definetly does her justice. * Agree The Mississauga Muse Jul 8, 2010 12:01 PM Not Limit: What a reasonable person would have decided in the Commissioner's similar circumstances [cut-and-paste] "The Commissioner said this morning he will not be 'constrained' in making his decisions and potential recommendations. 'The terms of reference (for the inquiry) were made deliberately broad to allow me to investigate conflict of interest,' he said. 'There is no need to more precisely define conflict of interest.' The mayor took an oath to serve office "truthfully, faithfully and impartially,' Cunningham added. 'She didn't say simply she would abide by the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act,' he said. Cunningham will use a common sense approach and determine 'what a reasonable person should have done in similar circumstances.'" 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