Democracy Experiment That Showed Councillor Was As Useful As Chicken Nipples – We Want Our $50,000 Back Please!

As many of you know, WFP has been fighting to get missing signage

replaced on Victoria Street. The signs were taken down

during the Big Dig since traffic was re-routed down

Veterans/Diagaonal Road. Over 1/2 a dozen requests were made

to councillor Bernie Bailey to have the signs replaced. Each

time it was mentioned to Mr. Bailey, he would say he would try to

remember this time and take action. This continuing failure of

Mr. Bailey led to the WFP increasing scrutiny and rhetoric, in an

attempt to get Bailey to act on this Public safety issue. It

also took repeated badgering to get Mr. Bailey to request financial

data regarding the Howson Dam fund. When he finally did

capitualte, all it took was for him to spend a couple seconds

emailing town hall. Even the simplest of tasks seemed over

burdensome to this man, even though was paid about $1,000 a month to

Represent the People. Getting the North Huron calendar updated

also turned out to be a futile task, as monthly requests/demands

were required to achieve this tiny baby step toward transparency.

These signs were our Democracy Experiment”