Should Pickering, ON Mayor Ashe and Councillor Brenner be Fired？
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Summary
The Mayor of Pickering has been accused of sexual harassment and abuse of power by his own staff. Councillors have voted to remove him from office and he has been charged with sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and sexual assault.
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this is how violent brenner can be when he thinks no one is listening
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who is he referring to in the conversation hint could he be referring to pickering strong mayor
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kevin ash they looked at it through the lens of diversity i'm not able to tell is that
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mannequin caucasian or non-caucasian i would have to through you marriage i would have to verify with
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museum staff however i do believe it is a caucasian mannequin did they look at the
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but you're not sure and i'm not sure so i guess what i'm saying is i don't have a problem
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supporting the report tonight with the exclusion of that mannequin is counselor brenner suggesting
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that if a mannequin is determined to be a caucasian mannequin that it has no relevance to the history
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of pickering and should be discarded you and i had a conversation in your chambers and you were the
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one who directly told me that counselor brenner was having a very busy weekend running around
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gathering signatures i don't i i don't recall that conversation of course you don't he doesn't recall
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the conversation wow is he experiencing memory loss again but i'm also not surprised by the fact that
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this is being hosted by two community associations from north one why is that important because that's
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what i believe in ladies and gentlemen i believe in community building our city is beautiful we've got
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so much potential but we've got unfortunately a lot of challenges ahead of us i'm just figuring out
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how i can sharpen my sword and decapitate the mother i will also be speaking about
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sexual harassment and about violations of harassment in the workplace
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to the human rights and i mean i just want to reiterate something that i said at a council meeting
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a while ago is that you know counselor brenner had threatened me earlier last year that he would
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that he would stick a knife in my back and slowly twist it and i would never know until he was
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pulling it out now sir okay so in my opinion then um i would just like to say that this is just another
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one of those twists of that knife in my back thank you okay thank you i don't think that's an appropriate
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ending to your debate uh counselor brenner thank you very much mr mayor um i can understand why the
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counselor feels it's about her but i can tell you i wish i could take credit for this but i can't
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um the matter that is before us is correspondence that is consistent with the positions taken by this
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council as well as the region of durham in support of the need for the province of ontario to change
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the legislation for greater accountability for all elected officials i've just figured out how i can
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sharpen my sword and decapitate them and that's covered up in the mandate of the ontario human rights
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commission to be really clear this is not an investigation into the conduct of counselor
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robinson that's already been done by an integrity commissioner notice how strong mayor
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kevin ash did not address counselor robinson's allegation about a threat of possible serious injury from a knife
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slowly twisted into her back or about any investigations also counselor brenner did not
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deny the accusation or defend himself is anyone paying close attention to this does the city paid
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integrity commissioner have a great track record of conducting fair and unbiased investigations
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are you in favor of the extension of quote strong mayor powers in pickering kevin no
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kevin ash lied is this an observable pattern with kevin how many other times has he lied to the people
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if you are elected man would you ask queen's part for these powers to be extended to you
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and what would you use them for thanks for the question uh if i have the privilege of being
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pickering's fifth mayor on october 24th you will have a strong mayor you won't need the power being
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granted uh from queen's part i would not support the extension of strong power uh responsibilities
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are asked to the city of pickering he does it again wow
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well you say it's not in the report but it's not in the report the director of city please don't
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raise your voice at me mr mayor i don't deserve to have my voice raised to a moment director of
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personal privilege please please stop raising your voice at me i am not raising my voice at you
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please continue you're just raising your voice at me everyone will be able to hear it
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this is the concept no i'm not going down the rabbit hole this is not a rabbit hole
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it's on the federal government's website please mr mayor on the crazy street
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you should be very proud lisa very proud not cases you bring in here
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yeah unbelievable you're you're you're you should be ashamed of yourself
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is this a pattern where mayor kevin ash speaks down and name calls his constituents
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i'm sorry i need a moment of personal privilege
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while you're talking i have the mayor telling me you want to know what a conspiracy or right-wing
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theory is they're talking about you like that up here right now i've got mumbles here mumbles here
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and i have the mayor talking about how poorly this is i appreciate your delegation sir
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can i ask if they're not secret meanings why don't we have the minutes for them because they're in
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camera and there's okay semantics again so but but then so they're they're in camera so for the
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record in camera secret they're just semantics they don't they don't publish the exactly so
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agenda and they're orderly done just just so we get that um so they are secret because we don't have
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an agenda for them actually true well but when there's public when there's things that have to
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be announced in public they're done if there's legal advice given that's not yes but the whole
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meeting didn't have to be in camera just well we have we we have four specific exemptions on the
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municipal act i know that and we do them uh in accordance with that and the city clerk is
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independent of council in regards to that you were you were deputy mayor at one point and what did
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you do you you broke the rules is that the way to run a city how so what are you what are you
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kevin went on a trip when it was covid so i'm just saying you you don't always go oh i have
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experience and and no it's it's if you're going to play by the rules you have to play by the rules
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and you know what sometimes we need fresh look at it we you bring bad habits with you when you've
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been there for a long time rules for thee but not for me according to kevin ash
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mayor kevin ash thinks it would be nice if councillor lisa robinson followed the lead of
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durham district school board trustee linda stone who recently resigned from her position
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is mayor ash afraid of councillor lisa robinson speaking the truth
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no we're voting against all of the capital projects all of the current uh current budget and
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expenditures that's correct that's correct thank you and uh i um recorded vote um requested by
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i'm just following the hockey game and the leafs just won in overtime so
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they won in overtime yes um my apologies i know the budget is important but uh some some of the
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some other things the budget is very important hundreds of millions of dollars i repeat hundreds
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i'm just figuring out how i can sharpen my sword and decapitate the