We didn’t succeed in getting Mayor Morrison replaced, but the overall goal has been achieved.

Almost 30% of Wentworth voted for our policies and our agenda. Thanks a ton for all of you who gave us a listen and your vote of confidence.

My goal from the beginning was to bring awareness to various issues, and I thought running for mayor was the best way to do that. I didn’t want the job, and luckily Councillor Jay Brothers was willing to run for Mayor. He gave a good try, but it was too difficult to defeat the incumbent.

No matter, it’s clear there are now 30% of us that believe in those goals, and we aren’t going anywhere. Unless Morrison takes our desires seriously, our numbers will grow. It’s clear that my agenda items aren’t the thoughts of one lone resident, but there’s a lot of us that feel the same way. Not only that, our contingent felt strongly enough to take the trouble of voting. That’s proof that lots of Wentworth citizens feel strongly about the agenda. 

Morrison has no right to ignore the desires of 30% of the electorate.

SO HERE’S THE PLAN GOING FORWARD

1. If you feel you’ve been unfairly treated by anyone in the Wentworth administration, send an email to editor@WentworthGazette (dot) com. You have my personal guarantee (the word of Tom Paskal) that your information will be kept exactly as confidential as you want. I already know of some complaints, and my plan is to keep a record until the right time comes. If there’s something needing urgent attention, I’ll try. Consider me your ombudsman.
2. If you feel someone, or some group, has benefitted from special favours by the Wentworth administration, email me under the same confidentiality promise. These favours could be things like derogations or contracts given to friends, donations only to certain kinds of groups, unfair sector taxation, maintenance projects given preferential scheduling, or any other special treatment that wouldn’t be given to others. Please let me know. We want equal treatment for everyone.
3. You new councillors on Team Morrison may not have known what you were getting into with the WILD project. The WILD project is designed for us Wentworth citizens to pay to buy, build, and maintain, a significant chunk of our land, for tourists from anywhere to come and use. The tourists aren’t bad people, but they haven’t paid into the resources they use, and we don’t want excess people in our quiet land & lakes. It’s not what we signed up for when buying our properties. Hopefully, you councillors will not agree with this project. Even better, hopefully Mayor Morrison lets the idea fade away.
4. If anyone finds out that Mayor Morrison is funneling our money into the Philanthropie Laurentides fund (see previous article), please let me know immediately. That would be an emergency issue.
5. To Mayor Morrison, please re-institute transparency at Council Meetings. It costs nothing to livestream them, so that any of us interested, can see what’s going on. We’re a small community, and there’s no reason for us not to see in real time how the issues we care about are being handled. This is an essential good faith issue.
6. To the entire Morrison administration, please reduce the budget & reduce the number of by-laws.

These aren’t crazy demands. A lot of us feel this way, and there’s probably a lot more we didn’t succeed in contacting. In fact, probably a lot of the Morrison Team voters also feel the same way.

We’re a small community, and there’s no reason for you not to represent ALL of us.