Our Mayor of Caledon is nothing if not consistent. Consistently misleading, misinforming, and misdirecting.
Consider the public promise to hold a vote on the controversial 12 zoning by-laws at a certain date, and then moving the date back without a warning to her constituents,
Consider the controversial 0 Shaw’s Creek infill by-law motion, where she changed the times of the public meeting three time over three days, cancelling any delegations and shortening time for questions by the hundreds of concerned citizens.
Consider the admission, along with Premier Ford, that “developer influenced” decisions just make “common sense” to them.
Consider this report in the Caledon Enterprise, Friday, September 12, 2025 regarding the mayor’s controversial “Destroy Swan lake” motion: “According to the mayor, the motion was to grant the developer a bylaw ‘exception’ so a more-than-usual limit of 10,000 cubic metres fill could be brought to the site. This procedural step must be approved by council because staff do not have the authority to amend a bylaw, she explained.”
‘It was just to authorize an exception to the fill bylaw not to approve the permit,’ she said. ‘A month before, Councillor Early tabled a motion to amend the fill bylaw to allow them to be able to bring fill over in that Alloa-Mayfield West area, so it’s not unusual.’ Groves also said that she was not approached by the developer and had not been part of initial discussions. She agreed to present the motion, when asked by town staff, as part of normal procedure. This just starts the process for the proposal to be considered, she said.”
Whoa! Back that one up Mayor Groves! First, the motion by Councillor Early to ask for an exception to the fill by-law was to allow excavation fill from a residential site in an Alloa Mayfield West project to be moved across the street to the adjacent commercial property so that it could be infilled and graded to safely complete the approved projects. Yes, not unusual at all.
What is unusual is for a motion to be tabled for a yet unapproved project that would allow a developer to bring tons of GTA construction waste soil and dump it in a freshwater lake in the middle of a fully rehabilitated greenspace. That is really unusual.
Secondly, with whom did the developer have his initial discussions? Who on the Town staff asked the Mayor to present the motion?
Misleading, misinforming and misdirecting. And yet, oh so photogenic, You spin things so well, I get dizzy just reading your media releases. It’s beginning to remind me of a line in a speech by Juliet in Shakespeare’s classic teenage love tragedy. Are you the “Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical. Dove-feathered raven, Wolfish devouring lamb. Despised substance of divinest show, Just opposite of what thou justly seem’st?”
All that glisters is not gold, the way I see it.
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*Image from Covenant Caswell, Substack