Saturday, August 13, 2022

A lawyer's boondoggle: the RHVP Inquiry.

Vincent J. Curtis

13 Aug 22

RE: City hall shenanigans continue.  Spectator editorial 13 Aug 22.

It’s double rich of the Spectator to think it’s rich of Mayor Fred to regret voting for the RHVP judicial inquiry.  Back in 2019 the Spectator was agitating for an inquiry into the allegedly astonishing number of accidents and fatal accidents along the RHVP, an opinion itself the Spec manufactured.  And this was a continuation of the campaign of harassment by the political Left against the construction of the RHVE.

An inexpensive engineering inquiry wasn’t good enough.  The Spec wanted scalps, which only a judicial inquiry could provide.  Well, the Spec got its judicial inquiry, and it’s costing the city multiple factors more than the initial estimate, breathtaking to start with, making it a lawyer’s boondoggle.  (i.e. from $2 - 7 million to now $28 million)  You could tell what was going to happen as far away as Alberta.  Pointing the fingers at other people is a way of avoiding a manly admission of one’s own involvement.

I have no faith in the engineering skills of the lawyers, but if you want to understand what you could blame for going wrong, if there is a wrong, check out my email of 18 Feb 2019.  It’s entitled, “I blame the wackos.”

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