White Knight's Comment

Last night, I decided I had made my final observation about the Petch House .

On Monday, I contemplated getting out of my car , clapping my hands in it's direction, in hope the vibration would push it over.

I considered making like the Big, Bad Wolf in the Three Little Piggies, and Huffing and Puffing until I blew the house down.

Then I gave myself a shake and thought ; get a grip.

I don't believe the other side is obsessed with saving everything ancient. Their attitude towards myself proves the opposite.

If we cast our minds back to controversial issues in this term , a pattern is clear.

The Inner Circle have a strategy. It is simple and time worn. Cater to all special interest groups, no matter how small. They will rally when the time comes.

Remember the three lights from Canadian Tire Parking lot connected to the town's street lights, so that residents of the Mosaic could walk down a dark lane after the store closed, in preference to walking down Murray Drive and enjoying the safety and security of a lit public thoroughfare.

The traffic calming boon- doggle in the north-west quadrant that cost $211k, creates extreme inconvenience for people who live there and made us the laughing stock of all who have seen it,

An appointment was made to fill a vacancy from the slate of the Inner Circle , versus a by-election, the community's stated preference.

The Mayor's persists in the claim to be saving the tax-payers' money when refusing to spend development charge dollars for the purpose they were collected (a baseball diamond) while contemplating $400ks tax dollars on restoring a rotten,crumbling relic for a contrived and questionable purpose.

Half a dozen cheques at Christmas to select home-owners on Knowles Crescent were paid out over and above the million dollars we spent re-constructing the road.

There's no shortage of examples of irrational spending which can only be seen as a means to garner pockets of support here,there and everywhere in the next election.

Remember the hydro issue, the train whistle, toxins in Tannery Creek, Oak Ridges Moraine.

The spending for legal costs that must be secret. Administrative support to foil the right to know.

It is not a fail-safe strategy. But it's theirs. In the next election, we will know how effective it has been.

The Mayor and Council are regularly urged to start doing what they were elected to do.

I believe, they believe that's exactly what they are doing.

It's how they got elected before. Why should they believe it won't work a second time.

It's not about the Petch House and respect for the town's history.

Anything but.