The Right Decision Can Still Be Made.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Some Things Bear Repeating":

Petition is ' to revoke By-law to indemnify a member of council against damages and legal procedures

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The petition should read;

 A request to Rescind the Bylaw.

The Number of the Bylaw must be cited.

It must be understood every municipality indemnifies elected officials against legal action  for making decisions within their duty and responsibility.

What isn't  provided is funding for them to undertake litigation against someone . 

There's no law to prevent them from doing it. They just have to pony up  for it themselves. 

That's why Council had to pass a Bylaw to allow town funds to be used for the Mayor to launch an action against John Maclean. Aurora Council didn't even do that.

A Bylaw is a separate piece of municipal legislation.

That's what needs to be rescinded.

Nobody  with any sense of balance or fairness needs a lawyer to tell them it's not right.

Canadians have rights,guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, signed into law by the  Late, Honorable  Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the Year of Our Lord,1981

Every Canadian home should have a framed copy hanging on the living room wall.

Municipalities can  not  pass Bylaws that contravene  laws of  senior levels of government. Dammit..you'd think they'd know that.

The  petition is to reverse the previous decision which Council was probably advised, possibly by a lawyer, was appropriate.

Give them the chance to exercise their own judgement and make the right decision.

If they haven't already done that after the Special Meeting on Thursday.