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I asked Peat the cost of such a legal review, considering there’s no doubt the city solicitors will need to consult with pricey outside experts. He said the staff didn’t provide a costing. Of course not.

Of course, most on council would not see the irony of the time spent, or their behaviour in the council chamber both last Friday and Monday afternoon to protest the proposed legislation or of the mayor’s attempts to run out the clock to keep everything status quo (and the left happy) before Oct. 22.

It didn’t take long for the self-preservationists to go off the rails when council began its session Monday. It happened right after Stephen Holyday put forward a motion that expressed support for the province’s plan.

It was as if he unleashed the hounds.

NDPer Fletcher kept trying to gang up on him, (retiring) Janet Davis berated him and Anthony Perruzza, who with any hope will become obsolete under the new plan, repeated more than once in a highly professional and mature manner that Holyday was egged on by his “daddy” (the very capable Doug Holyday, former deputy mayor and MPP) to support the move.

“This action is distasteful to me … this is a decision council gets to make (and) not because Stephen and his ‘daddy’ wrote a letter to the premier,” Perruzza hissed, insisting with a smaller council no one will be around to take care of barking dogs or to fix curbs.

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His comment was absurd because he and his colleagues don’t take care of barking dogs and curbs now.