It made the very first paragraph so was apparently considered important to want to dispel as the first and worst 'falsehood'!

I quote: 'Some residents believe that the Township has decided that no Rate Payers Association Board members can sit on the PLC for the water & wastewater servicing project.'

The Wainfleet Residents appointed by the Township Council were announced this past week.

Surprise! Surprise! Not one single 'Rate Payers Association Board member' was appointed.

There were a total of 13 Applicants. At least four applicants were Rate Payer Association Board members.

The Wainfleet Rate Payer Association has well over 200 members, the vast majority of them Wainfleet residents and voters, many of them Lakeshore property owners, those directly affected by this proposed Lakeshore Servicing Project.

The Wainfleet Rate Payers Association has received the support of at least 200 Wainfleet Residents at their Public Meetings.

Wainfleet Township Council has never called any Public Meeting on the Lakeshore Servicing Project where they have been able to show any such support for the project. At Council Meetings our elected representatives can't even come up with as many as five between them to support their cause.

The Meeting to choose the successful applicants was held behind closed doors - an in-camera meeting - whilst the Township Council decided who they should appoint based on the applicant's 'qualifications'. Without disparaging any of those who the Township Council did appoint it is impossible not to ask what was so wrong with the qualifications of:

Betty Konc. A Wainfleet Resident with a wider understanding of the Lakeshore Servicing Project than all our own Councilors put together and a recognized representative of a large number of Wainfleet Residents.

Helen Hoskin. Over and above her knowledge of the water/sewer issue she has, for years, been tireless in her community work for the benefit of Wainfleet, particularly protecting Wainfleet's Lakeshore environment.

To ignore those with such credentials has to call into question the motives of a Township Council who appear only interested in subverting the very idea of democracy.

We have a mayor and four Councilors, all who were elected to represent all Wainfleet Residents, not just those who agreed with them. Each decision they make only emphasizes how much they have chosen to ignore this fact.

Andrew Watts

Wainfleet