Juno News - Chestermere responds ＂We definitely like Mayor Colvin＂

00:00:00.000 hey everyone welcome back to the Alberta Roundup I'm your host Rachel Emanuel today we are going

00:00:16.040 to a town hall on the situation in Chestermere last week I interviewed former Chestermere mayor

00:00:21.080 Jeff Colvin as well as former city councillor Stephen Hanley they were dismissed along with

00:00:26.560 two other city councillors and three CAOs by municipal affairs minister Rick McIvor and they're

00:00:32.760 saying that they were dismissed after looking into allegations of corruption in the city of

00:00:37.760 Chestermere and now they're trying to get their jobs back I went to this town hall in which they

00:00:42.540 were speaking about the situation to see what some of you guys think and whether or not you support

00:00:47.840 Mayor Colvin let's take a look hey everyone it's Rachel Emanuel of Trudorth I'm here in Calgary

00:00:52.600 where the former mayor of Chestermere who was dismissed by Alberta municipal affairs minister

00:00:58.860 Rick McIvor is here for a town hall with some of his councillors to explain why they were dismissed

00:01:03.520 and why they think it's wrong I interviewed them last week on my show we'll play a couple clips for

00:01:08.400 you guys you can also go back and watch that episode but I did get the chance to talk to some

00:01:12.240 people about why they're here tonight let's go check it out come on what do you think of the

00:01:16.720 situation with the mayor three CAOs and the city councillors being dismissed by municipal affairs

00:01:21.300 minister Rick McIvor well I think Rick McIvor completely misunderstood what the Chestermere people

00:01:28.140 like and want and we definitely like Mayor Colvin and what he's been doing for us and we really think

00:01:36.240 that Rick McIvor overstepped his bounds I think it's unlawful there's never been any evidence

00:01:42.840 provided by Rick McIvor to remove them and and when you look at the ACERT investigation that was

00:01:50.180 requested by the mayor there's multiple stories inside that ACERT delineating a lot of criminal

00:01:55.980 activity and so for the minister to come in and remove the mayor and then for that ACERT investigation

00:02:02.100 to disappear I mean when you look at criminal code 1392 it sure looks like a criminal offense to me

00:02:08.420 have you heard about the fact that the mayor and the councillors have been dismissed by the municipal

00:02:12.320 affairs minister yeah that's right I heard that too yeah it's too bad because you know everything's

00:02:18.300 on hold did you think they were doing a good job before they were dismissed I think so I think they

00:02:24.220 were doing a good job we had talked to him before he was elected and we told him what we needed done

00:02:30.440 getting rid of COI and and all the waste and and corruption that was going on there and just doing

00:02:37.060 something about those things and he stepped up and he did everything that we expected some of the

00:02:43.940 people that we told him to let go he didn't let go but you know that's he's he's the boss sort of

00:02:50.260 thing and you know that's that's up to him but yeah I I found that he was doing everything that we

00:02:57.600 asked him to do and I was happy we weren't really in on what was going on and suddenly we have no mayor

00:03:05.080 and council and we're trying to get things done we're trying to build houses we're trying to to live

00:03:10.260 our lives and how do you do that without a mayor and council and they just essentially did it without

00:03:15.840 asking us what do you think needs to happen next I think we need an election now and let's get our

00:03:25.840 council back because we're going to vote them all back in anyway I've been following this event for

00:03:32.400 months and I find that there's really something missing when you find when you try to get to the

00:03:40.620 detail the Alberta government really is disappointing to me you know I think Smith is good but when it

00:03:49.680 comes down to trying to deal with this kind of stuff it's like there is no one to talk to my MLA

00:03:56.820 I talked to her twice now she says no can't talk about this why because it's in the courts what I

00:04:05.340 want to talk about is nothing that's in the courts it's what's out in public it's the cuff report you

00:04:11.400 know I've read that thing twice maybe three times you think I can't understand it put it in in terms of

00:04:18.580 of what common people can understand and I just really think some disservice has been done to the

00:04:26.500 people in Chastamere so you felt that the mayor was doing a good job rooting out corruption why then

00:04:31.180 do you think that minister McIver dismissed him corruption you think the minister is corrupt yes

00:04:36.660 his brother-in-law is a previous mayor and he wants his brother-in-law back in and when I came into my

00:04:41.900 office my office was completely clean so what I mean by that is not a piece of paper not a pen not a paper

00:04:48.480 clip not a notepad not some files in the drawers that that what was the past projects the mayor was

00:04:54.060 working on there was nothing not a thing I looked in the computer not an electronic file not an email

00:05:00.440 everything had been deleted everything had been erased so that kind of gets your spidey senses a little

00:05:06.540 bit we were willing to actually look behind the curtain it got a lot of um retribution I think the

00:05:14.260 mainstream media has done a good a good job of covering up the story um and so a lot of people

00:05:19.700 are not aware of what's going on that's for sure how would you like to see this situation resolved

00:05:23.360 uh McIver should resign and Jeff and the other councillors they have to be reinstated because

00:05:29.980 they were deprived of their right to do process I'd like to see coven and the councillors reinstated

00:05:37.060 but I think we need to even wind it back further because I'd like to know what's going on with the

00:05:43.480 province and why they kicked out coven I'd like to know the detail behind the report in a more

00:05:51.760 understanding method I'd like them to explain it to us and explain what were the reasons they got

00:05:57.640 rid of the councillors and and Jeff I would like to see Daniel Smith get involved personally and clean

00:06:04.340 this mess up because it really is a mess there's there's a lot of corruption going on and there's

00:06:08.480 nothing being done about it what do you think Danielle needs to do specifically fire Rick McIver 1.00

00:06:14.760 for not for starters um and then we need a full encompassing uh independent third party criminal

00:06:22.360 investigation into these matters okay everyone that's all we have time for today thank you so

00:06:26.520 much for tuning in I will be back on Saturday with my regular programming but until then I hope that

00:06:31.200 you all have a very blessed good Friday I'll see you on Saturday God bless

Juno News - March 27, 2024

Chestermere responds ＂We definitely like Mayor Colvin＂

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