POLITICAL INTERFERENCE & PROTECTION OF THE GUILTY

Well the obvious example is Mike Duffy and other participants in the Senate expense scandal. It does however strike much closer to home for all of us. I am now to the point of realizing that a system set up for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many is inherently corrupt and simply can't help but remain so.

Here in Woolwich Township we have the Municipal Elections Compliance Audit Committee (MECAC). They allowed themselves to be guided into making a decision privately prior to the public meeting of July 2/15. They gave Mayor Sandy Shantz a pass on a Compliance Audit based upon a prior agreed upon plan in which she would submit a new Financial Statement combined with a months overdue Audit. MECAC did not have the authority or mandate to accept this over three months late documentation as a replacement or anything else from Mayor Shantz.

There is even the possibility based upon the mayor's under oath documents submitted to the Superior Court in Kitchener that MECAC misrepresented and lied to myself and the public regarding when they received these last minute documents.

On Friday August 27 MECAC will meet again to decide whether Councillor Scott Hahn's Compliance Audit requires a trip to court for Mr. Hahn. Any honest, above board body will have a very simple decision as the Compliance Audit has not made either Scott or his family look like choirboys. MECAC must send him to court for election act charges at the minimum. If they do not they are simply cementing their position as already indicated with mayor Shantz that they are corrupt and simply going through the motions.