BLOGExclusive: Is There Another Windsor Protocol

You remember the disaster and near-riot with the first Back-to-Work Protocol with CUPE.

Is there a secret Protocol signed between the Government of Canada and Eddie Francis that no one outside of Government has been let in on? Does Council know?

If there is another one, I sure hope it works out better!

Serious questions are now being raised as a result of the Three Amigos Session!

Was this Protocol the reason why it seemed that Transport Minister Baird and Conservative MP Jeff Watson were prepared to do handstands to get the City canal money even though it is clear that the canal would not meet the Infrastructure Program criteria:

• "City of Windsor engineer Mario Sonego said road jobs like those underway in the county can usually be tendered quickly, but that the projects for which the city secured approval are more complex and require significant engineering and planning.
  
  He said the term "shovel ready" didn't mean projects had to be signed and sealed and sitting in blueprint form on a shelf, only that projects needed to have cleared certain environmental hurdles.
  
  The costs involved in the engineering phases of projects mean design work generally isn't undertaken until projects are greenlighted, he added."

Was this Protocol the reason why the Feds overpaid for Brighton Beach so that the City could pay for the Estin bills and for its share of the Government programs?

All these mysterious trips for the Mayor supposedly for Children's Games and job creation. Does the Protocol now explain the reason he was overseas? In reality, was he in Europe for several weeks during the CUPE strike, something that seems inconceivable, for national security reasons ie to check out security arrangments for meetings of world leaders. Who is the unnamed, mysterious woman he was with for part of the trip and why did he pay out his own money if a good part of it was for City business?

Why would he want to do that?

From the JOINT STATEMENT BY NORTH AMERICAN LEADERS
Guadalajara, August 2009:

• "President Calderón and President Obama welcome Prime Minister Harper’s offer to host the next North American Leaders´ Summit in 2010. We will continue to work through this North American Leaders’ Summit process, in an inclusive and transparent manner, for the common benefit of the people of Mexico, Canada, and the United States."

If Eddie runs for the Conservatives, expect the Summit to be held in WINDSOR! After all, Muskoka got the G8 meeting. So far anyway.

I can hardly wait to see what else is in the Protocol!