Interesting Commentary Read at Wark Times Website from Barb and Louis

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Barb Smith says:

September 12, 2018 at 9:54 pm

"It sounds to me like our Director of Corporate affairs is running this town while the mayor and councilors sit back and let this happen. I was employee of the town for sixteen years as a seasonal employee working twenty five hours a week. At the early part of last falls season i was forced to work three hours every Sunday. I was a union employee making fifty four cents over minimum wage,.Our Director of Corporate.Affairs told me I would be replaced if I would not work the three hours every Sunday I was replaced with a worker from Kelly Services and they are doing my job and getting paid fourteen dollars an hour but for every hour a Kelly Services person is working for the town Kellys are being paid twenty five dollars an hour. The Director of Corporate Affairs told Council it was cheaper to hire through Kellys than pay our benefit package however part time employees have no benefits, only four percent vacation pay which everyone has to pay. I sent a letter to all of Town Council, the Mayor and my boss Ron Kelly Spurles and The Director of Corporate Affairs however i have not heard back from anyone other than Mr Burke. By the way i was replaced with a lady from New Zealand and a lady from Amherst who does not even know where the covered bridge is. I am a senior citizen who has lived in Sackville all my life and have traveled the Maritime Provinces many times over. Who would you sooner have representing your town? I am also a taxpayer in this town and feel these jobs should go to townspeople first."

and as well ...

Louis says:

September 12, 2018 at 3:24 pm

The truth is, Sackville runs like an autocratic regime or a monarchy, and not a benevolent one.

You may think that you’re citizens and voters. Some Soviet citizens also thought that.
We knew better and also thought that *we* were better. I’m not so sure about the latter part of this last sentence.

In truth, you are subjects. Sure, you can vote. I don’t even think that the ballot boxes are stuffed. But the thing is, it doesn’t really matter who gets elected. With very few exceptions (I can think of ONE on the current Council), once they sit on those Council chairs, they basically become a part of the problem. Why? That’s a good question, to which I don’t fully know the answer. Is it ego-driven, by feeling important? Is it because they don’t really know what’s going on and are afraid to rock the boat? Are they subject to pressure tactics like “The lawyers/accountants/engineers/insurers say that we must do X”? Are they just stupid and over their heads? Is it a lack of time? Are they climbers who feel that if they don’t rock the boat, they’ll have a chance at something more important? Do they seek the benefits of being lobbied by special interest groups? Is it even more nefarious?

Whatever it is, the real calculus seems to include the fact that most people don’t care enough to seriously revolt as long as the garbage gets picked up and the snow cleared. People get the government that they’re willing to tolerate, broadly.

So when you see rude behaviour directed at you by Town Staff, remember: YOU work for THEM, not the other way around. Everything else is just for show. Once you realise that, everything else just falls into place, including getting treated rudely, etc.

You are subjects, not citizens!
If you pretend otherwise, it’s only yourselves that you are fooling.
Town Staff know very well what your place is…"

Found the two individuals' commentary noteworthy on Bruce Wark's website.
I no longer comment at his website because of his ongoing censorship of me.

Sackville's [former] Director of Corporate Affairs is Jamie Burke.. and I think, like a lot of people around here, that Jamie doesn't work for us.. he does work well for the technocrats as a tool in their global agenda - UN Agenda 2030.

Sorry to see Barb was replaced after sixteen years of service.. and sorry to see the vicious attack/witch hunt that took place against Louis...  https://warktimes.com/2017/03/17/legal-battle-continues-in-aftermath-of-sackville-united-church-demolition/

All weird... All very odd.  Definitely these actions are abuses of power.

Here's where I found their interesting comments:
https://warktimes.com/2018/09/12/former-deputy-mayor-seeks-apology-for-town-managers-rude-behaviour/

Is Bruce Wark related to Wesley Wark?  He doesn't answer this question.

Biography

"Visiting Professor, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa.

Wesley Wark is a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He recently retired from the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, where he had taught since 1988. He served for two terms on the Prime Minister of Canada’s Advisory Council on National Security (2005-2009) and on the Advisory Committee to the President of the Canada Border Services Agency from 2006 to 2010. His most recent book is an edited volume: Secret Intelligence: A Reader (2009). He authored a classified history of the Canadian intelligence community in the Cold War and has published extensively in the field of intelligence and security studies over the past 30 years. He is currently completing a book on Spy Power—a history of intelligence and international relations from 1900 to the present. His essay on “Cyber-Aggression and its Discontents,” appeared in the journal Global Brief in its Fall 2012 edition (online at www.globalbrief.ca). Professor Wark writes and comments extensively for the Canadian and international media on issues relating to intelligence, national security and terrorism."

Bruce Wark on the right next to Stephen Garvey in red cap of National Citizens Alliance party met up in Amherst Nova Scotia - October 2019 [youtube screen grab from a National Citizens Alliance youtube channel video]

https://sackville.com/town-hall/municipal-departments/
Do you attend town hall council meetings?  I don't.  You could watch them on youtube. 

I do not respect the current 'management' since they blocked me from asking questions on their Facebook page [Ron Kelly Spurles/Matt Pryde/Phil Handrahan] in 2015.

Censorship is why this blog exists.. I believe free speech matters.

I am sure others have also experienced this sort of censorship.. just know this is unacceptable behaviour from people purportedly paid WELL to work for us.

No one asked for this expensive town hall complex that cost in the many millions.. but they got it anyway.
Meanwhile, the Tantramar Skate Park Project STILL continues to be ignored by the 'management' here. Sad.

List of grant recipients noted as at 9 March 2020:
1st TANTRAMAR SCOUTS GROUP $700.00
681 AIR CADET SQUADRON $700.00
BOB EDGETT BOXING CLUB $3,100.00
FOOD FOR THOUGHT $2,000.00 
LIVE BAIT THEATRE $6,000.00
OWEN’S ART GALLERY $800.00 
PERFORMER’S COMPANY $1,500.00
RR RURAL RIDES LTD. $1,500.00
SACKVILLE BASKETBALL BOOSTERS $800.00
SACKVILLE CITIZEN’S BAND $500.00 SACKVILLE COMMONS $700.00
SACKVILLE FARMER’S MARKET $1,000.00
SACKVILLE MINOR BASEBALL $800.00
SACKVILLE MINOR FOOTBALL $2,000.00
SACKVILLE MINOR HOCKEY $ 8,000.00 SACKVILLE SKATING CLUB $ 6,000.00 SACKVILLE SWIM CLUB $ 5,000.00
SACKVILLE YOUTH SOCCER $1,200.00
STRUTS AND FAUCETT GALLERY $1,500.00
TANTRAMAR HERITAGE TRUST $5,500.00 TANTRAMAR LADIES TITANS $1,000.00 TANTRAMAR MARSH LACROSSE $1,400.00 TANTRAMAR OUTDOOR CLUB $2,000.00 TANTRAMAR SENIORS’ COLLEGE $4,600.00 TRHS BOYS HOCKEY $ 1,000.00
CENTRE FOR ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT $3,300.00
OPEN SKY CO-OPERATIVE $500.00
PLAYWRIGHTS ATLANTIC $600.00
SACKVILLE CURLING CLUB $1,000.00
SACKVILLE GOLF CLUB $500.00
SACKVILLE MUSIC FESTIVAL $1,500.00
SAPPYFEST INC $4,000.00
BOB EDGETT BOXING CLUB $3,000.00
[ROYAL] CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 26 $3,500.00
SACKVILLE CEMETARY CO. $1,500.00
SACKVILLE GOLF CLUB $2,500.00
SACKVILLE MINOR HOCKEY $1,000.00
TANTRAMAR HERITAGE TRUST $1,300.00
TANTRAMAR MARSH LACROSSE $400.00
REMEMBERING CANADA’S HEROES $100.00
JIMMY RANKIN CONCERT $15,000

Jamie Burke is also playing favourites with the free money being given away at the Town Hall.. including $4000 to the Thunder & Lightning Pub in December.
http://tantramarlandownersassociation.blogspot.com/2020/01/local-government-gives-4000-to-local.html

New CAO Jamie Burke is an alumni of Mount Allison University in Sackville New Brunswick and his wife works for the University ... its interesting to note that many people in town believe the University runs our local government.. they're not wrong... millions of dollars flow to the University and they believe they are God-like. Many of our town councillors have ties to the University, degrees from there.

Meanwhile staff are being 'cut from the payroll' in the 'covid19' psyop - no one has died in New Brunswick from the virus but this is a convenient way to get rid of employees who are not part of the big plans and agenda.. am I right?
https://www.saltwire.com/news/provincial/oxford-cuts-two-full-time-one-part-time-and-seasonal-staff-person-as-it-deals-with-covid-19-437520/

"Councillor Bruce Phinney, the only member to vote against the appointment, said it’s the wrong time to appoint a new CAO.

“The reason I’m voting against it is I feel that the other candidates that we had were much more qualified. Mr. Burke has a lot more to learn yet and he needs much more mentoring before he’s able to fill such a position,”  Phinney said.

He added that Burke was responsible for a mistake that cost taxpayers more than half a million dollars — a reference to the discovery of contaminated soil on land that the town acquired from CN Rail for the Lorne Street flood control project.

Phinney also said he had been on previous CAO hiring committees that had not been very successful." [ warktimes.com ]

The internet is the only one celebrating Jamie Burke:
https://www.municipalworld.com/career-announcements/jamie-burke/