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With Hamilton city council wrapping up their final meeting this evening ahead of the municipal election, rivals on council are clearly in full campaign mode.
It was a longer than normal meeting with some news breaking earlier in the day regarding Ward 9 councillor Brad Clark. Earlier this month, Clark had put in a Freedom of Information request regarding Light Rail Transit. Three weeks later he obtained documents dating back to 2010 involving former Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger that included pertinent information that never saw the light of day at council — information that may have changed the voting process on the LRT.
Mayoral candidate Brad Clark: “The facts are the facts. It was a memo directed to him and he chose not to share that information with this council. And that breaks a sacrosanct trust with the city. No mayor should ever be put in a position where they are not sharing what they are being told by a senior level of government. Because all of us interact with Ministers, MP’s and MPP’s. And if we are sending a different signal than the mayor is sending, then we all look like idiots. The mayor received an email to that affect — took the information to the clerk, and then decided he was going to share it with me because it was going to take too long. Under access by design, he’s allowed to do that.”
Fred Eisenberger told us the media and the public should be allowed to read that document line by line. He feels that Brad Clark’s team is misleading the public on that.
