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RSS FeedsCollingwood public inquiry examining $12 million sole-source deal involving mayor´s brother
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19 august 2018 18:28:50

 
Collingwood public inquiry examining $12 million sole-source deal involving mayor´s brother
(The Star Movies)
 


COLLINGWOOD, ONT. — A judicial inquiry into the sale of half of this town’s electrical utility — and how council spent some of the proceeds — has begun six years after the deal went through.While there is fierce disagreement on whether an inquiry is needed, many hope the public airing will lift the cloud of scandal — exacerbated by an ongoing Ontario Provincial Police investigation — hovering over this booming vacation-retirement community on the southern shore of Georgian Bay.At an introductory session last week, Frank Marrocco, the Ontario Superior Court associate chief justice who is presiding, told residents packed into a Collingwood library room that the inquiry, which will include sworn testimony, is not a trial.“No one is charged with criminal activity. No one is being sued,” Marrocco reiterated the next day at a hearing to consider requests from people to participate and, in some cases, to receive funding for legal representation. After public hearings, Marrocco will prepare a report that will be turned over to the Town of Collingwood. Janet Leiper, Toronto’s former integrity commissioner, is lead counsel tasked with running the proceedings. Supporters of the inquiry, including Deputy Mayor Brian Saunderson, insist it is “absolutely a necessity. We owe it to our residents to understand what happened.” He pushed for and voted last February to ask the province to convene the probe.A lawyer running for the Collingwood mayor’s job in this fall’s election, he was not on council when it decided to sell a 50-per-cent stake in the power utility for $8 million. Nor was he on council when it voted to use some of the proceeds to award a sole-source, $12.4 million contract to a construction company that installed a “tension fabric membrane,” on top of an ice rink and community pool, which resulted in a $756,740.42 payday for former Liberal MP Paul Bonwick, brother of current Ma ...


 
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