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Kate 09:45 on 2020-04-08 Permalink Reply  

• John B 10:13 on 2020-04-08 Permalink

  That article appears to name the two harassed employees. If their names are now public, is there any reason to keep the report secret?

• walkerp 10:35 on 2020-04-08 Permalink

  Why is the city coming down so aggressively on her?

• Kate 10:41 on 2020-04-08 Permalink

  We don’t know, walkerp. Either journalists don’t know, or they’ve heard rumours they can’t substantiate. I suspect it’s the latter.

• Ian 11:03 on 2020-04-08 Permalink

  In the past, the kind of suppression tactics we are seeing here were used because somebody in power wanted to keep somebody quiet, usually to hide corruption.

  What little has been openly shared definitely hints at corruption in the tradition of the former mayor of CDN.

  It seems patently obvious to me, really, and the aggressive silencing tactics from the city do nothing to persuade me otherwise.

  WE CAN’T TALK ABOUT IT NOBODY TALK ABOUT IT
  Um it’s already been talked about
  WE CAN’T TALK ABOUT THAT EITHER

• Alison Cummins 13:18 on 2020-04-08 Permalink

  So the theory is that Montgomery is corrupt and that the city is trying to get rid of her quietly so we don’t think about corruption?

  Wouldn’t it be easier to prosecute her openly?

• walkerp 13:38 on 2020-04-08 Permalink

  No, the theory is that the bureaucrats at the NDG borough office are corrupt or at least inefficient to the point of negligence and when she started poking at them, they cried harrassment.
  The question is why Valerie Plante is coming down so hard on her. That is where the corruption angle becomes so worrisome. Is there some pressure on her to shut Sue Montgomery up?

• Ian Rogers 15:15 on 2020-04-08 Permalink

  Well for example, there are people that had been working at the borough under Applebaum, who we know was directly connected with property development related corruption. A senior bureaucrat tried to railroad Montgomery into letting a condo group take over the Empress theatre property, claiming they already had a contract to do the work…

  “After touring the building, I realized it could not be saved. I asked for a professional audit of the building and the senior bureaucrat told my chief of staff we should have the result of the audit in August and that there was a contract.
  It turned out there was no contract, and there was no audit. He tried to blame an underling, and I said, ‘No, it’s your responsibility’,” Montgomery recalls.

  This is of course one of the “anonymous” people being protected that complained about Montgomery… in an audit of the workplace that Montgomery herself ordered… it’s all very fishy.

  Strangely most of the mainstream media has been avoiding getting into anything but the Senior Times of all places has been very forthcoming:

  Projet Montréal disappoints in failing to support Sue Montgomery

• walkerp 15:35 on 2020-04-08 Permalink

  Thanks, Ian, for summarizing that so nicely. It all makes so much sense up until the point where Plante’s administration is coming down so hard behind this bureaucrat.

• Tim 20:04 on 2020-04-08 Permalink

  Who published that quote from Montgomery, Ian? I didn’t see it in either of the links in this thread.

• GC 20:40 on 2020-04-08 Permalink

  Thanks for that link, Ian. I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but… Just the fact that the person was supposedly guilty of harassment but still offered another job by PM…

• Ian 20:47 on 2020-04-08 Permalink

  My bad, Tim – I was referencing Senior Times again : http://www.theseniortimes.com/abandoned-by-her-party-determined-n-d-g-c-d-n-mayor-montgomery-seeks-justice/

• Tim 10:24 on 2020-04-10 Permalink

  Thanks for the link. The following quote is telling: “I meet with the director general every week, I say these are the files, where are we on this? Then there is a follow-up email, which they are not used to.”