The Town Hall
November 14, 2024
Takeaways from the City’s town hall meeting held in Grantham Ward:
1. Two goons from Mississauga met me at the door on the way in and two more were standing guard in the meeting hall, a show of force indicating how well Mat Siscoe, who occupies the office of mayor, tolerates dissent to his authoritarian rule. Policing and security should be in place to protect us from them, not the other way around.
2. When I walked in, a city staffer asked me if I would like to register. I replied “no” and went about my business.
3. I had expected the place to be packed with politicians, yet aside from Siscoe and the two ward councilors, Mark Stevens was the only other councilor in attendance.
4. By my count, there were 29 of us lowly peons who showed up, two of whom were little kids parents had brought along. Those kids weren’t happy about being there and made sure to let the rest of us know it.
5. Upon entering the room, Siscoe made sure to shake hands with the security guards, but not with the rest of us.
6. It was noteworthy that Siscoe was toting a Tim Davinder Hortons cup with him, openly showing support for an organization which forced children to take gene-altering poison in order to be able to attend their camps.
7. Dear Mat Siscoe: This is what I think of the prepared land acknowledgment you read:
8. Following a question about the trails around Sunset Sewage Beach, a resident of Niagara Ina Grafton Gage Village stood up and read a long prepared speech praising council for having declared a climate emergency and urged them to recommit to that declaration. Naturally, Siscoe, a devout follower of the climate cult, one of the biggest scams of our generation, replied that the recommitment is overdue.
I felt somewhat sorry for the guy. The man has clearly been irreparably brainwashed and, in all probability, has been shot up with as many injections of gene-altering poison as the government will give him. I hope his affairs are in order.
9. In his reply to a question about an uptick in crime and how Crown prosecutors are often declining to pursue charges against vagrants after police pick them up, Siscoe replied that it doesn’t matter who you are – if you’re committing crimes, you need to be arrested. Too bad that doesn’t apply to politicians.
10. A guy who was promoting his food waste recovery program said he was leaving early so he could go and serve some Mexican tacos. As opposed to Russian tacos?
11. The next speaker babbled on about how we should work together for homelessness and addictions. It’s so easy to turn a blind eye to the needy, she said. Imagine feeling you don’t matter to anyone. Every person matters. How can we deny human beings basic human rights? Where was she during the war, I wondered, when our right to bodily autonomy, earn a living, travel and move about freely were being trampled on by our governments? In his response, Siscoe candidly admitted that even though he spends 50% of his time on it and has allocated all kinds of funding to the problem, homelessness is getting worse. So naturally, the solution, in his eyes, is more taxes and more government. As I’ve heard it said online, if you think the answer to failed government policies is more government, you’re like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober.
12. Next up was a Two Ton Annie who put down her Diet Coke and waddled up to the mic, where she bragged about being on ODSP. As she spoke about Happy Rolph’s, I wondered what her “disability” was that made it necessary for taxpayers to put all that food on her table. Despite her excessive weight, she seemed mobile and looked to be a reasonably high-functioning person. Certainly well enough to earn a living. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, she noted the eroded breakwall at Happy Rolph’s, which, in her ever so humble opinion, was the result of climate change.
13. Later came the mother of the two rambunctious youngsters. With her daughter at her side, she said she wanted to see crosswalks on Scott and Carlton where those streets meet the Grantham Rail Trail. She also asked for two lines to be painted on a street as a guide for when her kids cross it on their way to school. If those kids need painted lines to cross a street, they shouldn’t be left out on their own without parental supervision.
14. When answering a question on the budget, Siscoe said he expects an increase in migrants as a result of the recent U.S. presidential election and was comfortable with the federal government increasing the number of “refugee” claimants. I still scratch my head wondering how that guy ever managed to pass himself off as a “conservative.”
15. All night long, I kept hearing Siscoe and both councilors moan and groan ad nauseam about not having enough funding for this and that, yet Siscoe admitted that the City had “donated” the Geneva Street property, which had been on the market for over $2 million, to the Region for bridge housing. In addition, at the last budget meeting I attended, Councilor Carlos Garcia told us that the City had spent $1 million over the last four years on DEI. In the understatement of the year, methinks that $3 million could and should have been put to much better uses.
16. Apparently there’s a rule at regional homeless shelters that anyone using drugs should leave their door open so staff can check on their well-being. Such nauseating compassion™ from the nanny state.
17. In response to a question about whether the City has a plan to deal with an influx of climate refugees, Siscoe admitted that they didn’t, but that it’s something they need to prepare for. In reality, however, the only kind of “climate refugees” would be those fleeing governments who buy into the climate scam.
18. In her closing remarks, Dawn Dodge told the audience how much they’re trying to help the homeless. Especially over the last four-plus years, I think they’ve had more than enough of their “help.”
19. In his closing remarks, Bill Phillips put in a plug for our sagging downtown. It’s not a jungle, he said. Clearly, he was not speaking from a great deal of experience.
20. I’ll give myself a round of applause for managing to stand listening to Siscoe for two hours. As I’ve said before, the more of him I see, the less I like.
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