It's a Long Road That Doesn't Have a Turn

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "The Gauntlet is Down.":

Wouldn't it be ironic if Tim the Enchanter is one of the Morrisites ......

Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at 4 June 2014 13:36*

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Not only ironic. Highly unlikely any Morrisite would consistently  echo  the 
 facts I offer for consideration. 

I am a politician first and at the same time a blog writer .

Few  nuances  pass  unnoticed. 

If the blog is being used , it serves my purpose.  

I would take issue with Tim on  fastening responsibility entirely on Council.

When Mr. Albino had his blinding  flash of enlightenment about turning  three lots on Yonge Street
into a fantasy theme park, he didn't come to Council first.

He solicited support from people  of standing in the community. He persuaded the Mayor as to the brilliance of his scheme. The President of the Historical Society leaped on to the  band wagon..Brock Weir, editor of the  newspaper everyone reads gave his support.

A petition at the Home Show was signed  by numerous residents. They knew less about it than Councillors but they signed it.

With so many people on side how could  the scheme  possibly not be valid?

Yet it  wasn't.

Who shouted "bloody murder"

Who  used  every extravagant hyperbolic phrase available to draw public attention to the  proposal.

It was a Councillor. It was this Councillor. This part of the whole Council.

If part of the whole blows the whistle is it not the whole that pulls on the brakes.

It took $25,000. for a consultant. Hundreds of  high- priced man-hours went in to the exploration.

A sunshine list employee earns in excess of $100,000 a year.  More than $8000 a month.  $2,000 a week.

 Subtract vacation time, sick time, statutory holidays, golf tournaments and times spent  on sundry
collateral activities and the hourly cost of work accomplished is steep.

Statutory holidays mean thirteen four day weeks in the public service.

More than one staff person was involved.

Whatever  it took, that's what it took . The holus-bolus sweep  towards spending $11 million  on three pieces of real estate was reversed.

When the community learned what was afoot, the community took the matter in hand and let Councillors know what they thought. Council paid attention. They could do no less.

The deal was stopped in its tracks.

From start to finish, everybody had a hand in it.

I tell people what's going on.

I don't tell them what to think about it.

I tell them what I think about it and they take it from there.

I'm a member of Council.

Council makes the decision . The whole Council.