CAN THIS BE DEFINED AS CORRUPTION?

Last winter and spring we had two Woolwich Township members sitting illegally on council. Two out of six were absolutely illegally occupying council chairs and a third who had blatantly violated the Municipal Elections Act (MEA) was sitting legally although in great jeopardy for his contraventions of the MEA.

Both Councilor Bauman and Mayor Shantz were finally turfed although it took threats from me regarding having gone to both the Regional Police and the O.P.P. before the Municipal Clerk finally issued a Notice of Default to Mayor Shantz. Every appearance was given that Woolwich Township were willing to brazen out having their mayor sitting illegally . Both Bauman and Shantz got reinstated by Superior Court although both of them gilded the lily fairly impressively in order to do so. In the mayor's case it may not stick however.

It turns out that she was reinstated conditionally. The conditions included filing "full and complete" Amended and Supplementary Financial Statements which she allegedly did last August 20/15. Well since just prior to Christmas I found further undeclared expenses by the Mayor. These took some research in order to get all the details which didn't occur until this last Monday. Those details were appropriately sent to the prosecuter who was in charge of the case at the time. Currently an out of town prosecuter has been contacted and he will be determining whether the Crown will pick up the MEA charges.

So long story short the question for me is whether or not mayor Shantz really is the mayor. Is she a "pretend" mayor? Is she simply mayor until the courts catch up to her? What exactly is her status based upon the current circumstances?