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Essex town councillor continues defiance on 'Chinese flu' tweets

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The Town of Essex councillor who downplayed COVID-19 and called it the “Chinese flu” in tweets claims he’s been made the target of “cancel culture.”
“It is legal to utter the words ‘Chinese flu’ and people do so thousands of times per day, all over the world,” said a defiant Chris Vander Doelen during a town council meeting on Monday night.
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“There was nothing racist or remotely hateful or even vaguely insulting about my tweets, and it is slanderous to suggest that.”

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Essex councillors side with integrity commissioner over controversial tweet

Essex councillors side with integrity commissioner over controversial tweet
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Essex councillor rebukes integrity commissioner's report, calls outcry over tweets 'organized hit job'

Essex councillor rebukes integrity commissioner's report, calls outcry over tweets 'organized hit job'
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Integrity commissioner says councillor's tweets 'racist' and calls for apology

The integrity commissioner's report is contained within the agenda for the upcoming May 17 meeting of Essex Town Council. Members are expected to vote on whether they will adopt the integrity commissioner's recommendations.
Swayze said he received around 80 complaints from local residents and beyond in wake of Vander Doelen's tweets last month, including from many people with Asian backgrounds.
"I have served as integrity commissioner for multiple municipalities over the past 13 years and have never experienced an outpouring of such emotion over the behaviour of a member of Council. In that time my voice mailbox has never been filled until now," Swayze wrote.

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Reader letter: Outrage over councillor's remarks seems bit much

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Re: Town of Essex councillor under fire for COVID comment, by Dave Battagello, April 11
The recent eruption of outrage focused on Essex Coun. Chris Vander Doelen following his use of the expression “Chinese flu” was quite astonishing to me.
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What has he done? Apparently, he has insulted the billion plus of Chinese people, so he is xenophobic, racist.
So what’s to be done with him? Present him before the integrity commissioner and perhaps cast him out of the realms of Essex town council into outer darkness.

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Reader letter: Essex councillor should consider resigning following remarks

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Re: Town of Essex councillor under fire for COVID comment, by Dave Battagello, April 11
To Chris Vander Doelen, let me first hope you have a speedy recovery from your COVID-19 infection.
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But I was disappointed and outraged by what I believe was a racist tweet using the term “the Chinese Flu.”
Have you not read how many American-Asian and Canadian-Asian people have already been beaten, bullied, spat on and told to go back to China as a result of racist remarks by other politicians? A few have been killed in Atlanta and San Francisco.

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Town of Essex approves additional, stricter rules for proxy voting

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In the past, the forms could be obtained on the Internet or from candidates.
“No exceptions,” Auger stressed. “It has to be issued and stamped with that distinctive serial number from the clerk’s office.”
The person appointing the proxy will then provide the completed, stamped form and identification to the proxy, who will take that to the clerk’s office for certification. Only the clerk’s office can certify the application. In the past, applications could be certified at polling stations.
Coun. Chris Vander Doelen expressed concern that the “CIA-style” rules would make it more difficult for people who need a proxy to get one.

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Despite point of order, Essex council moves ahead with tightened proxy vote measures

A new set of rules will be adopted in Essex, Ont., that will see tightened proxy voting measures in the town's upcoming elections.

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New proxy vote process in Essex

Council voted in favour of the changes during Monday’s council meeting.
Proxy forms will now be issued to voters directly from town hall.
The new guidelines include:
The clerk’s office will only issue the required Form 3 directly to qualified electors who make a request (directly to the Clerk s Office) that they wish to appoint another person to vote on their behalf;
Only Proxy Application Forms that have been issued directly with serial number stamp by the Clerk s Office will be accepted for certification;
The person appointed as a Proxy will additionally be required to bring with them when they apply for certification, proof of identification of the elector who appointed them.

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Essex residents offer 'visible hug' to community following anti-Asian tweets from town councillor

Essex residents offer 'visible hug' to community following anti-Asian tweets from town councillor
Essex resident Laura Soutar-Hasulo and a group of her neighbours are distributing "hate has no home here" lawn signs after a town councillor came under fire for anti-Asian tweets.
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'Hate has no home here' signs have been handed out across Windsor-Essex and some are even being requested across the province, including Ottawa, North Bay and Parry Sound.(Submitted by Laura Soutar-Hasulo)

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