Why the secrecy?

It appears that Whitby Mayor Pat Perkins and entourage (including possibly Roger Anderson) have been attending a real estate convention in lovely Cannes France during the past week. All expenses paid by us taxpayers. The biggest question in everyone’s minds is: why all the secrecy? Is it because certain people knew that this mystery trip would cause us all to pause? Not to mention that we need to be careful during the current economic climate (in spite of which we already got hit with yet another household tax increase)! The only real consistencies that Mayor Perkins has demonstrated during the 5 years that she has occupied the town’s politicalleadership seat is raising our property taxes every single year and her pro-development stance. Mayor Perkins campaigned on the promise of “transparency”. How does sneaking off to France demonstrate transparency? Mayor Perkins appears to thumb her nose at taxpayers in other matters as well. For example, she continues on a quest to create a performing arts centre and also a completely unnecessary new municipal town hall, both of which taxpayers have objected to time and time again. We already have a town hall and additional office space is available within our implausibly empty downtown fire hall. We presently cannot sustain a performing arts centre. Unbelievably, under Mayor Perkins leadership, $94K of federal infrastructure funding was diverted toward a study of this performing arts centre which the masses clearly don’t want (at least in this day and age). This unnecessary expense on the consultant study came back listing the same concerns that taxpayers have been raising. Among other issues…that primarily there are future ongoing costs of such endeavours that will inevitably fall back on the taxpayer. But that’s not stopping Mayor Perkins…she seems to believe that it’s perfectly okay to keep raising our taxes every single year and so if she envisions creating something that will become a burden to the taxpayer, this doesn’t worry her.

More examples of wasted taxpayer’s hard earned dollars and demonstrating what appears to be a total lack of concern for the masses she pledged to serve.

Concerned Citizen Kane