Cornwall Standard Freeholder

12 September 2007

Posted By McIntosh, Claude

Just when you think you've seen and heard it all at the Cornwall Public Inquisition, along comes Cornwall lawyer Frank Horn with the startling revelation - a bombshell - that God commanded the inquisition (a.k.a. Cornwall Public Inquiry) be held. Horn informed ringmaster Normand Glaude Monday that God told his client, Carson Chisholm, to get this inquiry up and running . . . ASAP.

So typical of the McGuinty Liberals, eh.

Here they've been trying to grab credit for the multi-million dollar inquiry.

Shame on them.

Listen up, you guys. It was God's idea.

You stole God's idea.

Have you no shame?

You guys are messing with lightning and brimstone.

If I'm Attorney General Michael Bryant or Fibber McGuinty, I'd stay out of thunderstorms for fear of being blindsided by a bolt of lightning heaved from the heavens.

Horn, who as a part-time fundamentalist preacher and thus knows a thing or two about such things, described Chisholm, brother-in-law of Perry Dunlop, as a devout Christian and Catholic (always thought the two went together) who keeps in touch with God by attending daily morning masses at St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church in beautiful downtown St. Andrew's.

Horn didn't say whether God spoke to his client during daily mass, but gave us some insight into a "conversation."

Revealed Horn: "God saw something that was wrong, and he (Chisholm) is a religious person, and he believes that the reason why this inquiry was set up was because it had to be corrected.

"There were things that were not right.

"He (Chisholm) just felt that it was God (who) wanted him to do (it), and that's why he did what he did."

Horn went on: "There has to be the spiritual aspect. This is one of the things that Mr. Chisholm is a very, very strong believer in, that he was doing this because it was what God wanted to be done . . . he knew that it was because who his Maker was and what his Maker thought that he should do. (sic)"

Shouldn't we at least be taking a collection?

The inquisition won't sit Thursday and Friday.

Apparently everyone is tuckered out from three straight days (after a three-week break) and needs some time off.

Actually, we should be encouraged with city council starting the budget process with a two per cent tax hike.

Dumb idea (but hey, what's new): We have a capable well-paid finance manager, we have capable well-paid department heads, we have support staff, we have a mayor and 10 councillors elected to make decisions . . . so why do we want a citizens committee to help with the budget?

Crime may be on the decline in Cornwall, and that's good, but that doesn't make the guy who just got his house broken into, ripped apart and family keepsakes stolen feel any better.

The skinny on the Kilger-Rivette showdown.

At a closed-door meeting Friday morning, a tough-talking Mayor Bob Kilger read the riot act to Coun. Andre Rivette: if he didn't apologize for comments made at the Aug. 13 council meeting vis-a-vis finance manager David Dick, he would be thrown out of Monday's meeting.

Later that day Kilger got an email from Rivette notifying him that the manager of municipal affairs in Toronto said retroactive expulsions are not legal.

A "ceasefire" was negotiated that had Rivette not apologizing but instead withdrawing his comments.

Score this round for Rivette.

Talk about inflation.

Eight years ago the cost of putting a washroom in Lamoureux Park was pegged at $250,000.

Now we're talking about $500,000.

Talk about your Royal flush.

Look, nobody wants to see a single-seat clapboard outhouse being built on a prime piece of public property, but $500,000!

You can build three decent bungalows for that kind of loot.

An Ottawa father who sexually abused his daughter over a number of years was given a nine-year jail term.

The judge said the sentence would have been much harsher if the abuser hadn't pleaded guilty.

How much harsher?

It would have been a 10-year sentence.

Wow. Now that's one tough judge!