BY-LAW

BY-LAW By Joe Ingino Editor/Publisher ACCOMPLISHED WRITER/AUTHOR OF OVER 800,000 Published Columns in Canada and The United States “I live a dream in a nightmare world” Always Remember That The cosmic blueprint of your life was written in code across the sky at the moment you were born. Decode Your Life By Living It Without Regret or Sorrow. By now most people that read this newspaper will note that In my efforts to contribute back to the community. I have at my expense and my time made available for all candidates incumbents and newbies the opportunity to meet constituents at the local Oshawa flea market every weekend. I have found that voters in many cases have given up on voting. This is reflective on the turn outs at election time. For this reason, I have made it a public forum where taxpayers can come out to a centralized place ask questions and bring concerns right to the participating candidates running. So far in my opinion the program has been a great success. People come out and ask all kinds of questions and express all kind of concerns. Nothing is more important in society than to have proper and adequate representation by community leaders selected based on credentials and accomplishments and not on name recognition. Personally one of the biggest complaints by taxpayers is the obvious deteriorating situation of the homeless. It has hit a fever pitch. Secondly, safety and quality of life in Oshawa. Followed by lack of representation by the current council and Mayor. Many also complain at the way By-law is a run away train that ideally was establish to settle dispute between citizens. By-laws are normally set to give taxpayers direction on things that can and can’t be done in a municipality in the best interest of the population at large. Oshawa, is known for having by-laws on the books that are antiquated, restrictive, outdated and wrongly filed to protect the city and not it’s citizens. By-law has gone from being a tool to settle disputes to a semi-para-military group that lack understanding and knowledge of the by-laws they enforce. Even the department heads lack the intellect to carefully read by-laws and only push them down the ranks based on interpretation without analysis. This leaving taxpayers frustrated and feeling oppressed. This under our new administration will come to an end. I will assure you that I will personally review the many city by-laws and assist in the re-writing. I will also assure you that I will turn by-law from a semi-para-military group to one of service to the community. No more threats, No more strong arming taxpayers. Let’s bring common sense to by-law. Let’s bring common sense to enforcement. Letter of the by-law as written now has many challenges with no real recourse to be taken by taxpayers. No way to fight so called bogus ‘ORDERS’. No real legal entitlement other than that by-law gives itself. No real municipal court to fight outdated by-laws. We nee to bring government back to people. By-laws are there to help us not hinder us. Taxpayers pay municipal wages and they need to be treated with dignity and respect.