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LETTER: GCS won't receive anymore of my money

'The continuing push - shove point to which we have come, is a big fish-little pond playground dispute,' writes reader
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StratfordToday received the following letter regarding a dispute between Stratford city hall and Get Concerned Stratford (GCS).

I have supported GCS financially and made that support clear as I picketed during the glass factory issue. Though my objections were political (China's work force Trojan horse, China's influence in the Winnipeg medical facility, China's obvious meddling in our elections), GCS operates from a more environmental pulpit but both positions unearthed a wrongful way of doing business by the city by using in camera procedures and urging the province to employ ministerial power against the wishes of the Stratford electorate.

However, it is the conclusion of this writer that the continuing push - shove point to which we have come, is a big fish-little pond playground dispute.

There is little in the details to convince me that this is no more than ego at play; on both sides. If polled, the citizens of this gem of a city would agree that banishing some tax payers from attendance at various city venues was an egregiously ridiculous move. And, if polled, most of the same group would agree that the GCS principals can be hyperbolic, overly euphemistic, and given to the dramatic when in the spotlight.

I have yet to inform GCS of this (so here it is) but I will not continue to give money (not that it amounted to much) to involve expensive lawyers in a tempest in a Timmies double-double level fisty. The city really doesn't have to worry about getting a thin skinned rash and GCS probably wasn't going to be using the splash pads any time ever. So, how about they both say "my bad" and get my roads paved.

Larry Baswick
Stratford