DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK IN WOOLWICH TOWNSHIP

Clearly the inmates are running the asylum up here in Woolwich Township (Elmira & more). Councillors have blatantly lied to citizens in ordering them not to attend Council as Delegates. The lie put to myself as well as the Chairman of the Citizens Public Advisory Committee (CPAC), Dr. Dan Holt, was that they Council have banned any Delegations in regards to Chemtura Canada, groundwater contamination and or the Canagagigue Creek. Since their initial verbal lies and intimidation last February 2/16 they have stickhandled their way around that obviously undemocratic and improper position by using excuses such as Delegates should go to the appropriate committees first and then only after that to Council. Of course what they didn't say is that they appointed the two Committees and their processes to receive Delegations, if at all, are totally bogus.

Last night in Woolwich Council Chambers they all backed down. Input from the Woolwich Observer, Waterloo Region Record and 570 Newstalk Radio was just too much for them. They were seriously looking like they should be called Dogpatch and not Woolwich.

The majority of this Council are securely comfortable in bed with Chemtura Canada. Council as a whole, less one Councillor, are doing their utmost to remove honest, informed citizens who are far more knowledgable than they, from having any input into the issues. Public consultation has always been a sham but it is far worse than ever due to Council's inappropriate and improper support of Chemtura Canada's goals. Those goals include removal of all accurate criticism of their dispicable environmental behaviour and actions.