Editor's note: Mr. Walpole is referencing the BayToday story City councillor under fire 'will not step down'
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To the editor:
The recent Acting Ethics Commissioner’s Report, as it relates to North Bay City Councillor Inch, is quite illuminating.
This whole affair amounts to a $36,000 (and probably more) tempest in a teacup at taxpayer expense. You cannot tell me this could not have been settled internally by reasonable adults.
The report’s conclusion, it seems to me, sets a pretty low bar for what is to be considered harassment. Upon reading the Acting Commissioner’s report, I fully expected to see Participation ribbons awarded to all involved, to help soothe the hurt.
With a bar this low, who would even dare disagree publicly with another person? A slippery slope indeed.
See: the full Report from the Acting Integrity Commissioner
On a related note, what is happening with the more serious investigation into the multiple harassment charges against a ranking individual at Canadore College? The sound of silence is deafening.
Robert John Walpole
North Bay
