Amnesia Pandemic Alert To Be Issued

I have it on good authority that a medical alert about a possible amnesia pandemic is to be issued shortly by the Health Department to cover a very specific area in the City of Windsor. That area is around Windsor City Hall.

I have warned in the past that fumes from the Tunnel Ventilation Building where Tunnel exhaust is spread seem to concentrate in one particular area and cause dramatic changes to the memories of those who breathe in the Tunnel exhaust fumes. That is why DRIC would have needed to do intense investigation into the many Schwunnels of Greenlink if it was to move forward as an alternative. Thank goodness it is not!

As an obvious example, our Mayor and Councillors cannot seem to agree as to whether or not full information about the Tunnel deal has been shared completely. Somebody has forgotten what has been disclosed to date it seems.

Actually, given the fact that the Detroit Council seems to want nothing to do with the Tunnel deal at all anymore, perhaps someone has forgotten to call off the team of outside lawyers who are working so much on this file so that taxpayers do not have to spend any more money on a transaction that appears dead. We have spent a million taxpayer dollars PLUS already in case our Council members forgot.

But I digress. I'm certain by now that you have read about or heard about the brouhaha involving Eddie Francis and the Deputy Mayor of La Salle, Bill Varga. Mind you, if you get your news from the CKLW webpage, you will have no idea what I am talking about because when you read their News Headlines it appears that Bill and Eddie are the best of friends.

In any event, at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon during his Greenlink presentation, the Mayor again went after the Laurier Parkway issue

• "Francis was befuddled as to what caused the controversy Wednesday, saying he was just stating the facts.
  
  "I indicated that in comparing 2007 to 2008, it now provided for a future connection to Laurier Parkway," Francis said of the DRIC process. "I even gave LaSalle credit for being able to convince DRIC that it was important."

Do you see what I mean? Even the Star noticed and commented on the fact in the news story!

Eddie was "befuddled" so quickly, in a matter of a few minutes now! The poor man forgot that this Star story said the following:

• "Two Windsor councillors suggested Monday night the province held a secret meeting with some county politicians and, by promising funding for other projects, bought their support for last week's long-awaited border-access proposal...
  
  He was asked if that means DRIC support from some in the county was bought with related road projects.
  
  "It would certainly give that appearance," Valentinis said.
  
  Coun. Ken Lewenza said the deals that may have been negotiated with county politicians in exchange for DRIC support are the Manning Road expansion in Tecumseh and a project for Laurier Drive in LaSalle."

Those remarks are truly inflammatory! How could anyone forget them since they are so serious a charge. They are verging on alleging an illegality.

It is very, very scary what is going on from a health perspective. I do not would wish to minimize the impact of the possible serious disease. Now you know, dear reader, why I rarely attend at Council sessions when I used to go there before so often. Now that I do not go there on Monday nights, I am remembering things so much better like my wife's birthday or our anniversary.

In case you think that I am joking around, I am not. Here is an excerpt I transcribed from the A-Channel News video from the luncheon in which the Mayor said:

• "For a strange reason unbeknownst to any of us...they now provide a direct connection to a future Laurier Parkway."

Oh my goodness, the Mayor's memory has failed completely! There was a letter dated May 20 that was sent to him by the Province explaining everything. If only the City Website had been working so that it could have been posted as a Communications item for everyone to see but unfortunately as you know now I was told that there were IT problems with the website most of last week.

The majority of the people then would have given up and would therefore have never seen the letter. You see, if other people had been to the City website and saw the letter they could have reminded the Mayor at the luncheon about it because they saw it already.

Here is the letter that the Mayor forgot about:

What is even sadder is that the MTO rep at the Council meeting said the same thing to the Mayor, something that seems that he forgot about in only a few days between the date of the Council meeting and the luncheon. What is even more troubling is that it looks like the Councillors forgot about the letter also so those that attended the luncheon could have corrected him on the spot!

I'm telling you... stay away from City Hall. The pandemic is spreading rapidly. You have been warned!