The Letter to the editor of NiagaraThisWeek.com Thursday, November 5, 2020 raises some very serious questions.
First of which is why is this explosive expose` coming to us from a concerned citizen and not from our award winning journalists?
Surely our in-house journalistic award winners are above giving corruption a pass predicated on political preference!
Yet there it is hanging out there like a sore thumb ignoring political abuse of Niagara's Citizens.
Rob Janssen's letter says it all!
Taxpayers’ hope was that with the current Regional Council the problems of mismanagement at the Region would have been cleaned up.
Nothing is further from the truth. The question should be asked who is really in charge of the Niagara Region, council or the unaccountable bureaucrats? Niagara citizens have tried to get answers on different issues without result. Transparency is suppressed with this socialist government.
Undemocratic policies have been implemented to make it difficult for citizens to ask council questions and hold them accountable as we saw with E.S. Fox Ltd. president Spencer Fox's presentation.
Senior bureaucrats are hiding important information from council as was the case with the Biosolid contract costing taxpayers almost a million dollars extra. Councillors who did ask questions about this issue were silenced.
There are ongoing problems with the newly constructed and heavily over-budgeted wastewater plant in Niagara-on-the-Lake at a high cost to taxpayers.
Questions to councillors about these problems were never answered. Wasting tax dollars on lawsuits because of bureaucratic incompetency is a costly problem at the region. Questionable is Chair Jim Bradly's ability to maintain a transparent, proper and democratic decorum at the region and to restrain these rogue bureaucrats.
Rob Janssen, Lincoln
The Second question raised by Mr. Janssen's expose` is why no response from our feckless and pedantic Regional Councilors?
'News Alert Niagara' alerted these councilors of the risk involved with electing a Kathleen Wynne operative to Chair of the already corrupt regional regime. Now they sit in silence while our Niagara Region suffers.
By way of the following emails 'News Alert Niagara' will endeavor to get answers to Mr. Janssen's expose` as to why the regime's Councilors are not forthcoming with information regarding the conduct of the regime's bureaucrats.
sandie.bellows@niagararegion.ca; jim.bradley@niagararegion.ca; barbara.butters@niagararegion.ca; dave.bylsma@niagararegion.ca; frank.campion@niagararegion.ca; pat.chiocchio@niagararegion.ca; george.darte@niagararegion.ca; jim.diodati@niagararegion.ca; betty.disero@niagararegion.ca; sandra.easton@niagararegion.ca; kelly.edgar@niagararegion.ca; wayne.fertich@niagararegion.ca; robert.foster@niagararegion.ca; bob.gale@niagararegion.ca; kevin.gibson@niagararegion.ca; barbara.greenwood@niagararegion.ca; brian.heit@niagararegion.ca; diana.huson@niagararegion.ca; tom.insinna@niagararegion.ca; laura.ip@niagararegion.ca; jeff.jordan@niagararegion.ca; marvin.junkin@niagararegion.ca; peter.nicholson@niagararegion.ca; wayne.redekop@niagararegion.ca; tim.rigby@niagararegion.ca; walter.sendzik@niagararegion.ca; bill.steele@niagararegion.ca; terry.ugulini@niagararegion.ca; leanna.villella@niagararegion.ca; tim.whalen@niagararegion.ca; albert.witteveen@niagararegion.ca; gary.zalepa@niagararegion.ca; group-councillors2018@niagararegion.ca; Group-Councillors2018@niagararegion.ca; clerk@niagararegion.ca; sean.obrady@niagararegion.ca; communication@niagararegion.ca
Wait till the bill for the Canada summer games Build comes in..it's already 10 million over budget and growing!
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