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Comments by others to this web-page 
- 17 - to this web-page at time of posting.


Mississauga News - July 8, 2010 - By  Editorial.

Process can’t be muzzled

Mayor Hazel McCallion’s bid to limit the scope of the judicial inquiry on a legal technicality might have been a smart legal manoeuvre, but it will do little to inspire confidence among city residents.

When City councillors agreed to pay up to $400,000 on inquiry-related legal fees — $400,000 of taxpayers’ money — on behalf of McCallion, they likely assumed the mayor would participate fully and completely in the inquiry, a process intended to be transparent and open.

Hiding behind a narrow definition of conflict of interest, as contained in the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act, hardly seems like the action of somebody who has embraced the transparency required to clear the air at City Hall.

Inquiry commissioner Douglas Cunningham was absolutely right to deny Elizabeth McIntyre’s — McCallion’s lawyer — attempt to restrict the breadth of the inquiry and insist instead on maintaining broad terms of reference for the inquiry.

If Mississauga residents are to be satisfied their hard-earned tax dollars are being put to good use, both by City Hall and in the inquiry process, they must be privy to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.  Taxpayers will not be satisfied by partial truths or limited testimony.

Cunningham best described the mayor’s responsibility to residents when he said she had taken an oath to serve office, “truthfully, faithfully and impartially.  She didn’t say simply she would abide by the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act.

“Suffice it to say that members of Council are not to use their office to promote private interests, whether their own or those of relatives or friends.  That is not only the common law, but the common sense standard by which the conduct of municipal representatives ought to be judged.”

Makes sense to us.


Comments by others - 17 - to this web-page at time of posting;


ComeOn

Jul 12, 2010 6:36 PM

Hazel McCallion Scandal Will Be Her Undoing

The meetings with her sons partners, the I give you enersource you give Peter the land. Oh yeah this is headed to just a misunderstanding. Add in a settlement worth millions. How did Peter Mccallion get a deal wth OMERS anyway??? Why did the City rush to buy contaminated land that land when there were hundreds of other acres to choose??? She should try the Dallas defence and claim it was all a dream sequence to distact us -- or get use to the Nixon line -- "I am not a crook"


 

ConcernedResident

Jul 12, 2010 2:13 PM

@Tony Jackson

Let's take the opposite tack. Maybe 95% is too high a number for you. in 2006, 5% of the (almost 400K) eligible voters (of the close to 30% who bothered) did NOT vote for Hazel. That equates to 4,000 votes. 1%. That's right 1% of the eligible voting public did NOT vote for Hazel. So the rest are sheep, huh? I think Hazel's in the wrong line of work. Her Svengali like trance on all of us negates the need for any inquiry,. She can have whatever she wants.

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Mantis

Jul 12, 2010 1:16 PM

@Tony Jackson

Mississauga voters have given McCallion 90% of the vote for several elections in a row now and we will this time too. So far there is not even the slightest bit of evidence that the mayor did anything wrong and there is even less indication of the public turning against her in any way. You can dream all you wan but you'll wake up disappointed the day after election night.

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pacroust

Jul 12, 2010 12:33 PM

Tony, Tony, Tony

Didn't you know that the 95% of Mississauga (all non-tinfoil hat wearers) have appointed Mantis to speak for all of them? Yup, Mantis is the voice of the silent majority. He knows what everyone is thinking and he's not afraid to speak up for them. The problem is the lousy job he does representing them. Mantis, my honeybunch, here's a piece of advice: when your whole song and dance consists of name-calling and shrill (and getting shriller) unsupported assertions that you are right, it shows that you have nothing else. I think that's been said before ;) xxxoooxxx

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Tony Jackson

Jul 12, 2010 12:02 PM

@Mantis

95% passive voters supported Mother McCallion in the past election where there was no strong opponent. What made you think that the majority of tax payers will support Son McCallion's misuse of his mother's office and looting the public funds. Mantis, if you are an insider (Friend of Haze), tell us how much Peter made from that secret settlement?

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ComeOn

Jul 12, 2010 9:23 AM

Muse

If you see this Muse there is more to come. Just think about what you know and the details that are missing. We know Peter McCallion got a settlement when the City opted to buy the exact same parcel of land from OMERS. To sell it clear of lawsuit, OMERS had to buy off Peter's gang. The Inquiry has the ability to obtain the details of the secret settlement. Apply this to other areas and other pieces... now add in a few revelations to come and add it up. Do not assume that you have heard everything already there is considerably more to come. This is EASILY the largest political scandal of its kind in a long time. My apologies to the folks who worked so hard on the ehealth, HRDC and Quebec Referendum scandals.

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The Mississauga Muse

Jul 11, 2010 12:50 PM

@ Stephen Wahl Portion of email today "I live in [REDACTED]. A small fraction of the size of MYTHissauga, but from what I am seeing,

just as biased and corrupt in the way they deal with issues of the day. I want to start up a site like yours to expose the crap and corruption that goes on here." Today from Torstar "'The use of social media, it really does help to establish a public record, one that could contradict in very graphic and very concrete ways the official record, what is produced by the mainstream media,' says Forte. 'The use of social media is putting out other truths for people to understand.'” I reminded Commissioner Cunningham of George Orwell, "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’" Citizens MUST NOT trust Government as Keeper of Records.

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Stephen Wahl

Jul 11, 2010 10:12 AM

Process can’t be muzzled-but that doesn’t stop the City from trying

And often they have succeeded in shutting down opposition or inquiry; a few examples include; new ward redistribution, the Pothole Poet, Don Barber and public question period, the above mentioned Judicial Inquiry and in July 9 Mississauga News an article describing the City requesting that the Human Rights Tribunal dismiss the case filed by Alex Juani regarding the duct tape hazing.

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The Mississauga Muse

Jul 10, 2010 8:54 PM

@ The Spudder, the Inquiry's mandate, here you go

"WHEREAS under Section 274 of the Municipal Act 2001, a Council of a municipality may, by resolution, request a Judge of the Superior Court of Justice, to investigate and inquire into any supposed breach of trust or other misconduct of a Member of Council, an employee of the Municipality or a person having a contract with the Municipality in relation to the duties or obligations of that person to the Municipality and inquire into or concerning any matter connected with the good government of the municipality, or the conduct of any part of its public business;"

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The Spudder

Jul 10, 2010 1:56 PM

@Mantis

Get your head out of you know what and go read the terms of reference for the inquiry. The conflict of interest is a minor point. The whole premise of the inquiry is to make recommendations not only on who may have committed a misconduct or had a conflict but also on what should be included under the conflict of interest rules going forward. This is about good governance. I agree that you should be judged on the rules that were in play at the time of your actions when it comes to conflict, common law, fiduciary responsibility, etc. Stop trying to take attention away from really happened here.

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Uatu

Jul 9, 2010 2:13 PM

@Muse: No they aren't

Most Mississauga voters aren't like Mantis and ConcernedResident. They are neither corrupt nor sycophants, they just don't care. Obviously the resident Fiends of Hazel do care and as they've demonstrated, they'll stop at nothing including personal attacks, outright lies, and censorship to prevent any contrary opinion from being expressed. Ordinary Mississauga voters can't be bothered to do anything but vote. Anyone who votes for Hazel because she has run the City in the black and kept taxes down is an idiot, however. The legacy of Hazel (and this is already happening) will be huge tax increases, massive spending cuts, and enormous deficits. We're about to suffer the consequences of 30 years of planning that suited developers instead of the needs of citizens.

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The Mississauga Muse

Jul 9, 2010 1:23 PM

@ ComeOn, sorry but I can't accept what you wrote in your Jul 9, 2010 1:09 PM

It's like your making predictions. And you say that you "read months ago several documents that if any other politician had done it we would demand their resignation." Okay, I admit I've said for several years now that the Law doesn't apply to Hazel McCallion or MYTHissauga. I still believe that --especially the law applying to Staff who tap dance happily about violating provincial legislation and guidelines. But it's like either you have some unique fly-on-the-wall eyeballs at documents or?... Plus I'm on the record as saying that the Mayor could drop babies into a wood chipper and Mississaugans would still vote for her. (Now they might take less kindly if it were kittens and puppies but--) I'll wait for evidence to emerge. Or not emerge.


The Mississauga Muse

Jul 9, 2010 1:15 PM

@ Uatu, I agree. Mantis and ConcernedResident are representative of Mississauga voters

But come election time, it will prove to the world that Councillor Nando Iannicca was right! That when it comes time to put an X beside a name, Mississauga residents only care about keeping property values up and taxes down. Their WALLETS vote. On the bright side, it proves youth who've written me right, "the System is CORRUPT there is no way to fix it”. I concede that he's right.

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ComeOn

Jul 9, 2010 1:09 PM

Hazel McCallion Scandal -- More Disgraceful Revelations To Come

Uatu, I am saying who to vote for or why. I will leave it to the voters. I think Hazel's sun is setting. When the Inquiry produces a report and when a crown prosecutor is known to be reviewing for the purpose of laying charges -- then we will see what she does, what others say and do. Again, I am sick with this scandal and read months ago several documents that if any other politician had done it we would demand their resignation. Given that there is much more to come out before the end of all of this I think it will be hard for Hazel to put her name on a ballet. I am extremely disappointed after 30 years that she did not simply come clean and then step away from public life. This is a very sad day for politics in Canada as this tarnishes public service and adds to those who would smear all elected officials with the suggestion of corruption. Hazel should apologize first to the people of Mississauga and then to her colleagues on Council whom she has let be attacked without just cause by her supporter

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Uatu

Jul 9, 2010 1:00 PM

@ComeOn

I wish I could agree with you. I remain convinced that most voters in Mississauga do not care what happens at the Inquiry. There is no way they aren't voting for the Greatest Mayor Evair in the Bestest City in Canada and probably even the whole world! On this point, I think the Hazelbots are sickeningly right.

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ComeOn

Jul 9, 2010 12:35 PM

Hazel McCallion Scandal

Uatu when the people here how the Mayor has caused this multi million dollar mess and some details yet to see the light of day that will show a person more interested in her business than city business -- the facts will be far too ugly to deny. Remember, Hazel has never come clean and lets people put her on a pedestal so the national media will likely be unforgiving to both the deceit and holier than thou attitude when the time comes -- final report day or sooner.

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Uatu

Jul 9, 2010 11:49 AM

The problem

The Mississauga News is correct in almost every aspect here--except one. Most Mississauga residents aren't paying attention. When the election comes, most of them won't bother to vote. The majority of those who do will blindly support McCallion no matter what the Inquiry determines. They have either been brainwashed by the Fiends of Hazel with the complicity of the media (the Mississauga News is not blameless here) or they are part of the corruption and want to continue to benefit from it. The cult of personality will prevail.

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