Unedited Audio of Toronto Hydro's January 20th Community Meeting

by John Laforet
posted on January 23rd, 2009 at 06:25:45 am

Three Toronto Hydro executives walk into a bar auditorium… While points of this meeting did result in the simultaneous outburst in laughter of over 700 Guildwood Villagers, unfortunately this is all too serious to be considered a joke. Residents do take this extremely seriously, but some of the statements Joyce McLean and Jack Simpson relied on were closer to punch lines than facts. Listen for yourself.

The link below will allow you to download the unedited tape of the question and answer portion of the Toronto Hydro Energy Services meeting in Guildwood on January 20th 2009.

I won’t say too much except the meeting did not comply with the City of Toronto act, nor did it comply with the requirements of a Class B Environmental Assessment. Unfortunately for Toronto Hydro – this meeting isn’t the only reason their application is bogus.

Joyce McLean, Jack Simpson and Chris Tyrrell all lied at this meeting. Each made statements they knew (based on Toronto Hydro’s own materials) was simply untrue. None of these individuals has any credibility as so much of what they said can and has been (in many cases) disproved. They should all be ashamed of themselves, and if they had any integrity, they would resign from their positions with Toronto’s public utility, before they do anymore damage to this entity. Joyce McLean should lead the way as her actions have been by far the most irresponsible of the bunch.

Feel free to take a listen, and to share with me the most ridiculous whopper or laugh line any of these folks threw out for public consumption during the meeting. I will post the best on my blog.

http://www.laforet.ca/media/hydro_meeting.mp3 (right click and select ‘save link as’ to save the .mp3)

Personally, my favourite part was when Jack Simpson twice said no public money was being used to finance the research (how this is even possible considering they are entirely publicly owned I don’t know) and then McLean later admitted to recieving public funds from outside Toronto Hydro’s profits, then got confused regarding sources and amounts and Jack Simpson (who had previously lied about this) stepped up and provided her clarification on the details of outside public funding.

As always, I welcome Toronto Hydro Energy Services to refute any claim I’ve made here. As we all know, unanswered claims become a matter of fact to the public with time. Toronto Hydro’s refusual to refute any of the claims I’ve made in past demonstrates a willingness to accept what I’ve said to be true. While I appreciate their agreement of facts, it is frankly unusual for these folks to not offer at least a misleading weasel word laden statement in their defense.

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