{"id":25308,"date":"2017-01-01T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T23:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=25308"},"modified":"2017-01-01T19:05:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T00:05:57","slug":"listen-up-criticism-is-an-important-part-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/listen-up-criticism-is-an-important-part-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Up! Criticism is an important part of democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5890\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5890\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5890\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/HM-0020-2-Profile-picture-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hugh Mackenzie Huntsville Doppler\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/HM-0020-2-Profile-picture-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/HM-0020-2-Profile-picture.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugh Mackenzie<br \/>Huntsville Doppler<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It seems that Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison is &#8220;disgusted&#8221; with public reaction, especially on social media, to Council\u2019s decision to virtually ignore much of its own bylaw related to the heritage designation of Hart House. How sad.<\/p>\n<p>For those who may not know, Hart House is a Huntsville treasure. It was built 120 years ago and its unique Queen Anne style, its majesty and its dominance are an important part of our local history. It holds the stories of many families, including a murderer, and it served effectively as Huntsville\u2019s first hospital. Consequently, Hart House has been designated as a heritage site for many years.<\/p>\n<p>In very recent years, a new owner purchased the property and applied to Council for some variations to its heritage designation. After considerable debate, these were granted. As I understand it, however, as these approved changes proceeded, substantive additional renovations occurred which were not approved and which many felt changed the historic nature of Hart House. There was a public outcry and Council was faced with deciding whether they should enforce their bylaw and order the unauthorized renovations removed, or to approve them retroactively. Council decided to allow them to stand. Now I will not take Council to task for this decision, even though I do not agree with it. It was a tough call that had to be made one way or the other and Council made it. That is what we elected them to do.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>What I do object to, however, is the rampage the Mayor indulged in when Council approved these unauthorized renovations because he was \u201cdisgusted\u201d by public comments from people who disagreed with Council on the Hart House issue. In part, he was defending staff, which I understand. They do not make policy. They follow it.  Most municipal staff recognize that splash from decisions and actions by elected officials sometimes lands on them. Indeed, sometimes it makes life difficult.  It\u2019s unfortunate, but it happens. What is fortunate is that we have many strong and effective public servants on our municipal staff.<\/p>\n<p>What annoyed me however, was the Mayor\u2019s lack of understanding of the right of taxpayers to vocally disagree with decisions that he and his Council make. Instead of recognizing that the Hart House decision would make a lot of people unhappy, he almost boasted about it. He lashed out at the critics and heaped praise on the owners of Hart House even thanking them for the previously unauthorized renovations to the building. He patronized the public by saying they didn\u2019t understand the Heritage Act but ignored his responsibility to have communicated that to them. He was at his best from his bully seat.<\/p>\n<p>The public has every right to hold the Mayor and Council accountable. The Mayor and Council have no right to criticize them for doing so. It is an important and fundamental democratic right and being held accountable and subject to criticism goes with the territory. So suck it up.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Scott Aitchison has entered the third year of his four year term of office. In many ways, it is a pivotal year, when people will take a hard look at what he has done and how he has exercised the leadership that has been entrusted to him. I am sure he is very confident. In fact, word on the street is that he plans to run again and is confident that no one would dare to run against him. He may be right and, for the record, certainly it will not be me. I have learned that lesson! But, in my view, he is showing early signs of becoming too comfortable in his own seat.<\/p>\n<p>To many, Scott Aitchison is a hail fellow well met. He is very good on his feet and, when he wants to be, he is an excellent people person. But those who know him well and many of his colleagues know that he can also be arrogant, sarcastic, mean-spirited and unforgiving. It is a brave person who has the courage to stand in his way. He has been pretty good at keeping much of this from public view but the cracks are beginning to show as illustrated at Council last week.<\/p>\n<p>In my view, during the next year, people will begin to hold the Mayor more accountable. When they see the 2017 tax increase, they will ask why the past three annual tax increases have been well above increases in income for most people in Huntsville. They will also want to know where the money went. As well, as the realities of hospital care in Muskoka become more clear, they may challenge him on this flip flop related to a full-service hospital for Huntsville. He could even be asked why he does not reside in the municipality he serves, although he does own rental property here.<\/p>\n<p>How Mayor Aitchison addresses these or other controversial issues as the election cycle winds down will directly affect his ability to successfully seek another term of office. He has the potential to be a good Mayor and, in fact, he and his Council have accomplished some good things. But he is not there yet and arrogance, self-satisfaction and disdain for those who disagree with him or question him can trump any of these accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Aitchison knows how to be an effective communicator. To date, in my view, we haven\u2019t seen enough of it. It is time that we did.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Mackenzie<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler! Sign up for our free, twice-weekly newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u>.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison is &#8220;disgusted&#8221; with public reaction, especially on social media, to Council\u2019s decision to virtually ignore much of its own bylaw related to the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,442,829],"class_list":["post-25308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","tag-breaking","tag-hugh-mackenzie","tag-listen-up"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Listen Up! 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