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 - 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. 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. * Agree 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. * Agree 1 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 * Agree 5 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? * Agree 4 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. * Agree 2 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. * Agree 2 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. * Agree 2 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;" * Agree 4 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. * Agree 4 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. * Agree 5 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. * Agree 1 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 * Agree 3 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. * Agree 1 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. * Agree 3 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. * Agree 3
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