Two C words...Complicity and Corruption.

I've read what the Toronto Star has on offer about the Mayor's trial over  use of  a  word.
Nowhere did I find what  was sought.
When the lease in question was being decided, details were sparse.  
Why was  there a  twenty-year lease?
Why is it being  extended twenty years.
That's not a lease.  That's "in perpetuity" 
Controversy was abroad  when the first  twenty year lease was signed. 
I  had assumed the city owned the property. 
I'm familar with the boardwalk
When  we took the streetcar and spent  summer  days  at Kew Beach,  ice cream, snacks and drinks were available at a wooden  hut  by the boardwalk.
We brought  frozen lemonade and  snacks and didn't have ice cream.
I couldn't visualise a  City-owned pub on the boardwalk. 
Now it's established the pub is privately owned.
The lease  gives the owner a monopoly to  provide victuals.
Further, the city has provided  another twenty year  lease without opening  the competition to others.
I would call that questionable. I  likely would not use the word corruption. But my meaning would be clear.
I have challenged  a similar circumstance.  
If discussion is behind closed doors,no rational is offered for preferential  treatment, what other conclusion  is there? 
Generous donations to a Councillor's campaign make the question  more relevant. 
Mayor Ford appears to be pin-pointing the Ward Councillor. 
Municipal Councillors are required to publish campaign donations ?
To make the connection between donations and decisions ? 
Having a monopoly, courtesy of the City, for provision  of victuals in the board walk area  is likely a valuable prize. 
Reports do not reveal  extent of the territory.
A twenty-year extension of a twenty year lease  for sole source provision must be worth a dollar-or-two.
What does the City receive?
How far would a business owner be prepared to go to tie that up? 
How does a City find itself in that situation?
The word " corruption" is common parlance in municipal circles.
"Graft and corruption" is probably a phrase in Roger's Thesaurus
Toronto has a couple of  highly paid, non-elected officials complete with entourage, with authority from elected officials, to make judgements  about conduct of elected officials. 
How pure! How virtuous!  What utter nincompoopery 
Aurora Council  found  itself  a target  for opening  to competition, town-owned facilities for a single summer week-end  of musical entertainment. 
Province-wide disapprobation in festival circles  is  said to be our just dessert for attempts to be clean and above board. 
Go figger! 
           
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