The Alberta Roundup with Isaac Lamoureux - 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

00:00:16.080 to a town hall on the situation in Chestermere last week I interviewed former Chestermere mayor

00:00:21.120 Jeff Colvin as well as former city councillor Stephen Hanley they were dismissed along with

00:00:26.600 two other city councillors and three CAOs by municipal affairs minister Rick McIvor and they're

00:00:32.800 saying that they were dismissed after looking into allegations of corruption in the city of

00:00:37.800 Chestermere and now they're trying to get their jobs back I went to this town hall in which they

00:00:42.580 were speaking about the situation to see what some of you guys think and whether or not you support

00:00:47.880 Mayor Colvin let's take a look hey everyone it's Rachel Emanuel of Trudorth I'm here in Calgary

00:00:52.640 where the former mayor of Chestermere who was dismissed by Alberta municipal affairs minister

00:00:58.900 Rick McIvor is here for a town hall with some of his councillors to explain why they were dismissed

00:01:03.560 and why they think it's wrong I interviewed them last week on my show we'll play a couple clips for

00:01:08.440 you guys you can also go back and watch that episode but I did get the chance to talk to some

00:01:12.280 people about why they're here tonight let's go check it out come on what do you think of the

00:01:16.780 situation with the mayor three CAOs and the city councillors being dismissed by municipal affairs

00:01:21.340 minister Rick McIvor well I think Rick McIvor completely misunderstood what the Chestermere people

00:01:28.180 like and want and we definitely like Mayor Colvin and what he's been doing for us and we really think

00:01:36.280 that Rick McIvor overstepped his bounds I think it's unlawful there's never been any evidence

00:01:42.880 provided by Rick McIvor to remove them and and when you look at the ACERT investigation that was

00:01:50.220 requested by the mayor there's multiple stories inside that ACERT delineating a lot of criminal

00:01:56.020 activity and so for the minister to come in and remove the mayor and then for that ACERT investigation

00:02:02.140 to disappear I mean when you look at criminal code 1392 it sure looks like a criminal offense to me

00:02:08.460 have you heard about the fact that the mayor and the councillors have been dismissed by the municipal

00:02:12.360 affairs minister yeah that's right I heard that too yeah it's too bad because you know everything's

00:02:18.340 on hold did you think they were doing a good job before they were dismissed I think so I think they

00:02:24.260 were doing a good job we had talked to him before he was elected and we told him what we needed done

00:02:30.480 getting rid of COI and and all the waste and and corruption that was going on there and just doing

00:02:37.100 something about those things and he stepped up and he did everything that we expected some of the

00:02:43.980 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

00:02:50.300 thing and you know that's that's up to him but yeah I I found that he was doing everything that we

00:02:57.640 asked him to do and I was happy we weren't really in on what was going on and suddenly we have no mayor

00:03:05.120 and council and we're trying to get things done we're trying to build houses we're trying to to live

00:03:10.300 our lives and how do you do that without a mayor and council and they just essentially did it without

00:03:15.880 asking us what do you think needs to happen next I think we need an election now and let's get our

00:03:25.880 council back because we're going to vote them all back in anyway I've been following this event for

00:03:32.440 months and I find that there's really something missing when you find when you try to get to the

00:03:40.660 detail the Alberta government really is disappointing to me you know I think Smith is good but when it

00:03:49.720 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

00:04:05.400 want to talk about is nothing that's in the courts it's what's out in public it's the cuff report you

00:04:11.460 know I've read that thing twice maybe three times you think I can't understand it put it in in terms of

00:04:18.620 of what common people can understand and I just really think some disservice has been done to the

00:04:26.540 people in Chastamere so you felt that the mayor was doing a good job rooting out corruption why then

00:04:31.220 do you think that Minister McIver dismissed him corruption you think the minister is corrupt yes

00:04:36.700 his brother-in-law is a previous mayor and he wants his brother-in-law back in and when I came into my

00:04:41.940 office my office was completely clean so what I mean by that is not a piece of paper not a pen not a paper

00:04:48.520 clip not a notepad not some files in the drawers that that what was the past projects the mayor was

00:04:54.100 working on there was nothing not a thing I looked in the computer not an electronic file not an email

00:05:00.480 everything had been deleted everything had been erased so that kind of gets your spidey senses a little

00:05:06.580 bit we were willing to actually look behind the curtain it got a lot of retribution I think the

00:05:14.300 mainstream media has done a good a good job of covering up the story and so a lot of people are

00:05:19.880 not aware of what's going on that's for sure how would you like to see this situation resolved

00:05:23.420 McIver should resign and Jeff and the other councillors they have to be reinstated because

00:05:30.020 they were deprived of their ITD process I'd like to see Coven and the councillors reinstated

00:05:37.100 but I think we need to even wind it back further because I'd like to know what's going on with the

00:05:43.520 province and why they kicked out Coven I'd like to know the detail behind the report in a more

00:05:51.800 understanding method I'd like them to explain it to us and explain what were the reasons they got

00:05:57.680 rid of the councillors and and Jeff I would like to see Daniel Smith get involved personally and clean

00:06:04.380 this mess up because it really is a mess there's there's a lot of corruption going on and there's

00:06:08.520 nothing being done about it what do you think Danielle needs to do specifically fire Rick McIver 1.00

00:06:14.800 for not for starters and then we need a full encompassing independent third-party criminal

00:06:22.420 investigation into these matters okay everyone that's all we have time for today thank you so much

00:06:26.700 for tuning in I will be back on Saturday with my regular programming but until then I hope that you

00:06:31.380 all have a very blessed good Friday I'll see you on Saturday God bless

The Alberta Roundup with Isaac Lamoureux - March 27, 2024

Chestermere responds ＂We definitely like Mayor Colvin＂

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