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| Blog Name: | Oshawa Speaks |
| Url: | http://www.oshawaspeaks.ca |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | politics, oshawa, ward vote |
| Description: | Oshawa city council has voted to implement the general vote for future city elections. This is a system not used in any large city in Canada and requires municipal political parties to work. These are illegal in Ontario Municipal Law. Oshawa's system will rob neighbourhoods of their guaranteed representation on city council, will make city council less democratic, inclusive, representative, and responsive and eventually all political power will reside in only the richer areas of the city leaving vast parts unrepresented and forgotten. The only beneficiaries of the new system will be the incumbent politicians who will be guaranteed higher salaries and re-election until their death or resignation providing an aging, less energetic council devoid of new faces and new ideas. The city and its people will not be better served by the general vote. If it was better, wouldn't it be used everywhere? City voters have to remove self-serving politicians Mayor Gray and Councillors Pidwerbecki, Kolodzie, Parkes, Henry, Sholdra, and Marimpietri all who voted to serve themselves rather than the people they are supposed to serve. |
| Popularity: | 3 Followers |
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Letter to Minister regarding Review of Ontario Municipal Election Law
Hon. J. Watson, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing cc. Hon. D. McGuinty Premier of Ontario Mayor and Council, c/o Oshawa City Clerk Dear Sir: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION PLEASE I write to you once again regarding the general vote that Oshawa City Politicians have implemented for the election of our next municipal council. This change was made following a convoluted plebescite question on the 2006 ballot in which the public were poorly informed. In point of fact, the Mayor publicly acknowledged at a Council Meeting tha
Hon. J. Watson, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing cc. Hon. D. McGuinty Premier of Ontario Mayor and Council, c/o Oshawa City Clerk Dear Sir: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION PLEASE I write to you once again regarding the general vote that Oshawa City Politicians have implemented for the election of our next municipal council. This change was made following a convoluted plebescite question on the 2006 ballot in which the public were poorly informed. In point of fact, the Mayor publicly acknowledged at a Council Meeting tha
Position of Local Councillor should be wiped out!
The following story has been reprinted from Oshawa This Week Oct 08, 2009 - 04:30 AM By David Conway Former Oshawa Regional Councillor As an Oshawa taxpayer and presumably a municipal voter, you may recall the referendum in the 2006 municipal election regarding the choice to continue with the ward system or change to the general vote system in electing our councillors. It was worded in such a way that if you wanted to retain the ward system you had to vote "no" to the question. It was clever on the part of councillors who wanted the general vote system and it worke
The following story has been reprinted from Oshawa This Week Oct 08, 2009 - 04:30 AM By David Conway Former Oshawa Regional Councillor As an Oshawa taxpayer and presumably a municipal voter, you may recall the referendum in the 2006 municipal election regarding the choice to continue with the ward system or change to the general vote system in electing our councillors. It was worded in such a way that if you wanted to retain the ward system you had to vote "no" to the question. It was clever on the part of councillors who wanted the general vote system and it worke
Gross Mismanagement of our City Business, Conflicts of Interest, and Adoption of the "At Large&
The following is a citizen letter sent to the mayor and council which appears on a recent Finance and Administration Committee Agenda. You can read the original copy of this letter by clicking the title above and see the news articles the writer refers to.Sent: Wednesday, August 12,2009 12:30 PMTo : clerksCc: Mayor@Oshawa.caSubject: Fw: Tax InformationAttachments: Tax lnformationAttached is a recently published article that should be forwarded to everyone on Council.With respect to property taxes on a residential property assessed at $350,000, you will note that taxes in Vaughan, Markham an
The following is a citizen letter sent to the mayor and council which appears on a recent Finance and Administration Committee Agenda. You can read the original copy of this letter by clicking the title above and see the news articles the writer refers to.Sent: Wednesday, August 12,2009 12:30 PMTo : clerksCc: Mayor@Oshawa.caSubject: Fw: Tax InformationAttachments: Tax lnformationAttached is a recently published article that should be forwarded to everyone on Council.With respect to property taxes on a residential property assessed at $350,000, you will note that taxes in Vaughan, Markham an
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