We Are Not Talking Genius Here

You will note that Georgina’s press release regarding the Grossi lawsuit. They say that this was not a private lawsuit and that Mayor Grossi was effectively a front man for the town’s initiative.

Council appears to be admitting the it’s trying to circumvent the law because government’s can’t legally sue. The town needs to clarify why it used public funds in order to fund a private lawsuit in light of the fact that it’s illegal for governments to sue for defamation.

Apparently it’s not just the weather this winter that is creating thin ice.

Aurora and Halton Hills made the same mistake, but who’s counting ?

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Doesn't matter how they spin it, Georgina discovered they can't put it over . So they rescinded it.

They still have questions to answer. 

The Municipal Act is specific about which items can be discussed behind closed doors.

It's a limited list.

It can't be expanded to allow Councillors to  plot revenge against  a citizen  using public resources to  that end. To distract attention from the real controversy.

That is not the litigation  anticipated in the Act that requires "confidentiality",so that peoplewon't find out what they're up to. .

Or in the case of a Council colleague, instruct a lawyer to suggest the target of the vendetta should not attend  the  closed door meeting  because it might be to his/her financial advantage, to hear how the rest of  council is plotting to even up the political score with hundreds of thousands of dollars of public resources.

I kid you not. It has been done..

When I did the  tally last week of  how much was spent in Aurora , I forgot the $24,000 paid to the  First Integrity Commissioner.

$6,000 for six months before the contract was signed and $18,000  for after .

It was a  two year contract. It wasn't signed until June. On August 5th ,when he ruled on the complaint that they paid a lawyer $70,000 to prepare for them, they "stripped him (the director)of his authority".

A day too late to say he didn't have  authority to make the decision.

It reminds me of a court case I sat in on once.

Two ne'er-do-wells were paid to set a building on fire by its owner. They took a couple of gallon cans of gasoline into the basement and splashed it about liberally

Then they struck a match.

The trial  had to be delayed for months until they were released from hospital.

It was actually quite remarkable they were still alive to tell the tale.