Cornwall letters to the editor, March 2, 2023 | Belleville Intelligencer
Phones, Bob Turner, and health care in the Standard-Freeholder's March 2, 2023, letters to the editor.
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Phones, Bob Turner, and health care in the Standard-Freeholder's March 2, 2023, letters to the editor.
Phones, Bob Turner, and health care in the Standard-Freeholder's March 2, 2023, letters to the editor.
I would like to thank Cornwall city councillor Eric Bergeron for requesting a detailed review of the 2021 municipal budget this week. Bergeron summed up council’s primary responsibility when he said “…it is our job as councillors to represent the taxpayer during budget times.” In 2020, council passed the budget without undertaking these deliberations. They failed to fulfill their mandate. Bergeron tried to speak for the taxpayer again this week and was narrowly defeated in his request for transparency when the mayor cast the deciding vote against his motion. If council and the mayor a...