Opening comments: More at the end.

Ah - the Right Wingers (pun intended), are coming together are coming together!
Here is Phil Green's E-mail to his E-mail list, usually regarding his holiday newsletters to the community he sends out to remind us he is still around and what he thinks about that. His web-site is noted and the same text can be found there on the home page.

To the main Judicial Inquiry page - to the Hazel McCallion page.

Comments by others to this web-page - 4 - to this web-page at time of posting.

Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:02:38 -0500
From: Phil Green <phil@philgreen.ca>
To: mississauga-south@philgreen.ca
Subject: Special Bulletin—Cancel The Mississauga Judicial Inquiry

Special Bulletin—Cancel The Mississauga Judicial Inquiry.

Greetings.

For the last couple of years of I have sent you greetings and local news at long weekends. I am making an exception now because of the Mississauga Judicial Inquiry.

I urge you to sign my petition to cancel The Mississauga Judicial Inquiry on-line here. You can also find it on my web site here. The goal is to convince enough councillors to change their minds and vote to cancel the inquiry.

This inquiry is a low point in our city’s history. The allegations are minor, and no Member of Council, including the Mayor, is alleged to have personally benefited. The inquiry will poison the atmosphere at City Hall. City staff, instead of serving you, the residents and rate payers of Mississauga, will be distracted serving lawyers. The inquiry is initially budgeted at $2.5 million and is a colossal waste of tax payers’ money. But it could easily balloon into a much higher figure. There are much simpler, less expensive and more appropriate ways to address allegations of misconduct by members of Council.

Now is the time for us to look forward, to build our city, to build and repair our infrastructure, to attract business and investment, to protect our air and water, and especially to keep expenses and taxes down during these challenging economic times. Instead, with this inquiry, City Hall will become a mud fest.

I have started the petition with the backing of Councillors Pat Mullin (Ward 2), Maja Prentice (Ward 3) and Katie Mahoney (Ward 8). Councillor Pat Saito (Ward 9) voted against the inquiry but I have been unable to reach her this weekend. The text of the petition is below.

Regards,

Phil

P.S. Please forward this email to your friends and contacts.

Sign on-line here

To Members of Council of the Corporation of the City of Mississauga

We, the undersigned petitioners, request Council to cancel immediately the Judicial Inquiry into alleged conflicts of interest regarding land purchases in the City Centre and Her Worship Mayor Hazel McCallion.

We respectfully submit that:

It is wasteful to spend millions of dollars of ratepayers’ money on a Judicial Inquiry when the Corporation of the City of Mississauga has many pressing financial challenges; and
The alleged transgressions are minor in nature and no Member of Council is alleged to have benefitted; and
The Mayor has a long track record of selfless service to this City and to its residents and the allegations are not consistent with this record; and
The Mayor had declared on several occasions that she had a conflict of interest on matters related to the alleged events and transactions and had recused herself from Council proceedings relating to them; and
There are simpler, less costly and more appropriate methods for inquiring into alleged misconduct by Members of Council.

Voted for the Inquiry
Ward 1. Carmen Corbasson. carmen.corbasson@mississauga.ca
Ward 4: Frank Dale. frank.dale@mississauga.ca
Ward 5: Eve Adams. eve.adams@mississauga.ca
Ward 6: Carolyn Parrish. carolyn.parrish@mississauga.ca
Ward 7: Nando Iannicca. nando.iannicca@mississauga.ca
Ward 10: Sue McFadden. sue.mcfadden@mississauga.ca
Ward 11: George Carlson. george.carlson@mississauga.ca

Voted Against the Inquiry
Ward 2: Pat Mullin. pat.mullin@mississauga.ca
Ward 3: Maja L.A. Prentice. maja.prentice@mississauga.ca
Ward 8: Katie Mahoney. katie.mahoney@mississauga.ca
Ward 9: Pat Saito. pat.saito@mississauga.ca

Sign on-line here

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Phil Green
http://www.philgreen.ca
phil@philgreen.ca

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