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Pipe Man, the industrial art installation in the image of Tom Thomson which floats in the Muskoka River and was donated to the community by local business owner Jan Nyquist for his company\u2019s 35th<\/sup> anniversary, was back before Council Monday night.<\/p>\n

Neither the future of our hospitals, nor taxes, not even the state of our roads has received the attention Pipe Man has. For some, that in itself speaks to Pipe Man\u2019s resounding success, but for others, it has become symbolic of the type of arrogance that assumed such an installation had a rightful place in such a prominent part of the river without public consultation in the first place.<\/p>\n

Then there is Nyquist, a successful businessman, community employer and philanthropist who gifted Pipe Man to the community at a personal cost of $50,000 and with the best of intentions. He has found himself caught in the middle of the vortex of, at times, downright nasty and abusive public comments.<\/p>\n

“I have to wonder,” said Nyquist, “and ask my critics who have been so openly rude and disrespectful towards the artist Beverly Hawksley and my staff on social media and other places, how much do they give to the community annually? Do they give to the community or do they take from it?”
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I am well aware that you councillors have received many complaints and that social media bullying has been relentless. Anyone who ever does anything new is going to come under criticism. This does not mean we stop inventing new things, trying new things and doing new things. The question for you today is whether you\u2019re going to have vision and show leadership or are you going to let negativity hinder the progress of our community?Jan Nyquist, Donor<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Council unanimously accepted the gift last year. When Pipe Man was installed in the river last November, it almost instantaneously resulted in calls for its removal, which were met with council eventually instructing staff to conduct a survey in order to get input from the community on an alternative location for the art. Unfortunately, very few respondents gave viable alternatives, choosing instead to express their opinion on the art itself, according to Huntsville Manager of Arts, Culture and Heritage, Teri Souter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a lot of complaints in the comments about the survey process itself because they wanted to be able to say whether they liked it, not whether or not they liked the location,\u201d she explained. Souter also noted that there were lessons learned as a result of the survey, like granting people anonymity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt that it would give people the opportunity to be honest and we put out a limit of two returns per IP address. I think that it backfired in the way that some people may have gone over the top in their comments due to their anonymity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Souter said some of the more constructive criticism received included consulting with the community in advance before accepting or installing public art in a specific location as well as including a clause to remove the installation at the donor\u2019s expense as a condition of acceptance. Other suggestions included implementing a working group to advise council on such donations. \u201cSo that\u2019s all nice information moving forward, but it doesn\u2019t really help the issue at hand,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Teri Souter, Manager of Arts, Culture and Heritage for the Town, holds up a double page spread in the Globe and Mail about the Pipe Man controversy.<\/p><\/div>\n

The survey ran for 41 days between June 29 and August 8, 2017. There were 1,392 responses and 952 comments. Seven per cent of those who responded said they liked the location, 90 per cent said they disliked the location and three per cent indicated they did not care.<\/p>\n

Councillor Bob Stone, seconded by Councillor Brian Thompson, put a motion on the floor on Monday to return the art installation to Nyquist and have it removed from the river by next summer at his expense.<\/p>\n

Stone said he voted in favour of the art installation at the beginning but \u201cthe people yelled and screamed. I believe that we\u2019re now saying we made a mistake, we have real information from the survey to say yes, a whole lot of people really don\u2019t want it or at least in that location.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison took issue with that comment, noting, \u201cI don\u2019t think you speak for all of us sir.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stone agreed that he was not speaking for all of council but said the mistake was not consulting with the public in the first place.<\/p>\n

Others had a slightly different take.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always liked Pipe Man in that position and I hope that the other 16,000 people in Huntsville that didn\u2019t fill out the survey, [that] half of them agree with me. Councillor Jason FitzGerald. <\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Councillor Det Schumacher called Pipe Man a great conversation piece, which has given Huntsville national exposure. Schumacher was referring to an article published in the Globe and Mail<\/a><\/span> about the controversy by Roy MacGregor. \u201cAnd you know what? Two hundred years from now it\u2019s going to be an icon and then all of this will have been forgotten\u2026 and good for you Jan Nyquist,\u201d added Schumacher.<\/p>\n

Councillor Dan Armour said like seven per cent of those who responded, \u201cI like the Pipe Man where it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deputy Mayor Karin Terziano reminded councillors that it was them who had asked for a survey in the first place.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need to start doing surveys and asking for people\u2019s opinions if we\u2019re not going to listen to them. So all I want to say going forward is if doing a survey like that isn\u2019t something that we\u2019re going to take seriously, then we shouldn\u2019t be electing to do them.Deputy Mayor Karin Terziano<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Councillor Brian Thompson argued that while 1,392 respondents may not seem like a lot, \u201chaving ten per cent of our population respond to the survey, which basically this is, is really, really a significant number.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish that the people that like it had responded to the survey. I feel that it doesn\u2019t do the process a lot of justice if we turn around and just ignore what we\u2019ve been told,\u201d said Councillor Nancy Alcock, who,along with councillors Det Schumacher, Jason FitzGerald and Dan Armour, in the end voted against the motion on the table to have Pipe Man removed at the donor\u2019s expense.<\/p>\n

Those who voted in favour of its removal were councillors Karin Terziano, Bob Stone, Brian Thompson and Jonathan Wiebe, which split council in half with four in favour and four against.<\/p>\n

Last but not least, Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison tipped the scales by saying he could not support the motion to remove the installation. \u201cTo me, this resolution is remarkably insulting and so I can\u2019t help but wonder if there isn\u2019t a better way to proceed than to insult Mr. Nyquist and his entire team by saying take it back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aitchison said he will be meeting with Nyquist to discuss the issue. \u201cI sat down with Mr. Nyquist and he told me about his anniversary, he wanted to do something nice for the town and I told him we don\u2019t need another dock, why not a piece of public art, so that\u2019s how this all began. So I will meet with Mr. Nyquist to talk about what just transpired here. We\u2019ve got a divided council obviously and a lot of people in the community are upset about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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