{"id":134,"date":"2004-06-16T23:11:02","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T03:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e4be0b0c-1eca-4ebb-8c84-1e45b5359c19"},"modified":"2018-02-03T18:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T23:09:42","slug":"tremblay%e2%80%99s-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Tremblay\u2019s outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>An edited version of this letter to the editor of the Montreal Gazette appeared in the 2004-6-18 edition under the heading \u201cLavish lunches exemplify abuses\u201d.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So Mayor Tremblay is outraged that members of his political party were reimbursed for lunches and vintage wines out of our taxes? Nothing to compare to our outrage! But the whole business exemplifies what\u2019s wrong with the megacity: things go on that those at the top don\u2019t know about, and too many people feel that they can get away with morally or ethically questionable practices or even outright graft, corruption, or union featherbedding.<br \/>\nWith any luck, and in spite of the best efforts of the \u201cno\u201d forces to frighten people, we hope to regain our cities in Sunday\u2019s referendum. With a return to municipal structures of workable size, we can count on an increase in accountability to the taxpayers, something sadly lacking in the megacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An edited version of this letter to the editor of the Montreal Gazette appeared in the 2004-6-18 edition under the heading \u201cLavish lunches exemplify abuses\u201d. So Mayor Tremblay is outraged that members of his political party were reimbursed for lunches and vintage wines out of our taxes? Nothing to compare&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[132,124],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-municipal-mergers","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}