A DEBATE BETWEEN IDIOTS

Last nights debate at the Masonic Temple was pitiful: It was a landmark in how dysfunctional our political system has become.

There was not one candidate for mayor, at that debate, that deserves to be elected. If any of the medias handpicked candidates for mayor (5) are elected, this city will become mired in gridlock and social turmoil.

I speak to you now as a voter not a candidate for mayor, "Please vote for one of the other 32 candidates; a candidate who has no "strings" attached to their plans for this great city; a candidate that will represent your views and not the one who will pursue his/her own agenda ignoring the people who elected him/her.

I entered this race because I wanted to at least once have the opportunity to tell the voter how city councils, in the past, have been under the influence of racketeers. I do not mean that every past mayor or councillor was criminal in their actions; I mean that the majority of those voting on vital issues concerning the future of Toronto, sitting on city council, were under the influence of outside forces (racketeers). The center of this influence stems from Cassel Brock Law Firm i.e. Mr. Ralph Lean, Q.C. . Mr. Lean was appointed (by Mayor Miller) to the Waterfront Revitalization board and to the board concerning the Film Industry in Toronto. He was appointed to these prestigious positions in payment for his financing of the elections of various candidates for council and for mayor. Mr. Lean holds the strings. He was Mayor Millers puppeteer.
Mr. Lean is now fiscally supporting Mr. Smitherman and others in this civic election. "Around and around we go!!!!!!"

Please vote and vote well. This is your city! Elect the best candidates for Mayor and City Council!



Barry Goodhead

City in Turmoil and Gridlock

Not one of the supposed, media hyped, top candidates for Mayor of Toronto are fit to represent this city. We do not need someone to be "the Face of the city"; what we do need is a new mayor that will manage and develop this city in a manner that will please and excite the voter as to the city's future.

I am that man.

The development of the waterfront of this city is of premier importance to its fiscal and social development.
The waterfront will be the terminus of any mass transportation system i.e. the TTC, etc. Without a plan for the development of our waterfront any extension of or new transit route construction will create a nightmare for future transit users. Not one political candidate has so much as mentioned the waterfront of Toronto. If you have read my previous "posts" you will know that the new real estate capital and tax base  generated by the development of the Toronto Waterfront is the key to reversing our city debt and financing a new central rapid transit system for Toronto. This development will help support ethnic minority housing sites and employment for 1000,s of people from professional to unskilled laborers. Our tax base will double and our prestige throughout Canada and the World will soar.

If elected I promise the people of Toronto a new, profitable and exciting waterfront extending into our daily lives; I promise fiscal responsibility in all aspects of the operations of our city. I promise not to be the "Face of the City"but only to work for the people of Toronto, to the best of my ability, with your help and your   guidance.

Respectfully

Barry Goodhead

WATERFRONT OF TOMORROW

To remove the Gardiner Expressway, to free up new land for development and to modernize the Toronto waterfront, I propose that a Gardiner Expressway Extension be constructed extending out into Lake Ontario enclosing the Toronto Waterfront from Humber Bay Shore Park, across Humber Bay, south of or part of the Toronto Islands and connecting to the Don Valley Parkway at its eastern terminus. At least two bridges would be required for access into and out of Humber Bay and Toronto Harbor.

This would enclose a large area of Lake Ontario to be partially filled and used for development by the City of Toronto as it pleases, adding a vast amount of real estate capital to the City of Toronto.  University and Yonge Street could be extended into the new developing waterfront area The elevated portion of the Gardiner Expressway would be removed. Surface rapid transit could be included in the design of the Highway to connect with the Yonge and University transit system.

The engineering required has already been done by the Dutch and Japanese. The expertise is there; its simply a matter of political will and commitment to develop our waterfront. The financial cost to the city would not only be offset by the value of the real estate created and could finance all future subway extensions needed by the city.

This is a simple concept of what could be accomplished by men and women with a view to the future of Toronto. This is fiscally possible and would create world attention.

FREE PRESS (MEDIA) or PROPAGANDA WING

The newspapers and the media censor the news and very rarely print anything said against incumbent politicians or "status quo" political candidates. This is supposed to be a Democracy; however, the media is in bed with the politicians and the police. This is not "status quo"; this is racketeering. A free press (media) does not exist in Toronto

This whole city council, media and police are one big MOB of racketeers who shear the sheep (you and me) day after day, year after year. If you complain you are ignored, harassed and then defamed by the press and could be imprisoned. All of the above are under the protection of the Metropolitan Police Force led by a Chief (Blair) who is appointed by these same politicians. They back Blair's actions, right or wrong. We should rename this city Chicago and change the date to 1930.

We will never rid ourselves of these parasites until the public, you and me, band together at the polls and "throw them out on their fat asses". You can always tell a good candidate for Mayor. He/she will be the one that you know nothing about; the one who has received no media coverage.

 In a rigged election it will become obvious to the voter that something is wrong when you say to yourselves, "I guess I'll vote for candidate X as he/she is the lesser evil" or "better the devil I know". In most cases we shamefully do not even bother to vote

IN THE NAME OF DECENCY MR/MS VOTER  PLEASE VOTE THESE BASTARDS OUT OF OFFICE!!! WE MUST PROTECT OUR RIGHTS AND OUR FREEDOMS.

People have fought and died to preserve these rights and that freedom to choose our leaders in a free election.

Barry Goodhead

My Platform Restated

In all my posts I have tried to explain to you, the voter, how politics in the City of Toronto has been and is a quasi corrupt organization. From the Police Department to the Mayors' Office your money (taxes) is wasted by politicians who owe favors to their political backers, by deliberate theft (kick-backs), by deliberately inflated budgets and by politicians who simply have no idea what they are doing. I am not the first to say "the City is corrupt"; but I bet I'm the first person who can prove it in a court of law.

If elected I will:

1. have a complete forensic audit done showing "value for dollar" across the board on all city expenditures.
2. hire a new city auditor, completely independent of political influence to assure an honest accounting.
3. freeze all new/replacement hiring city wide
4. immediately cut 10% from the Toronto Police budget and 5% from all other city departments
5. refuse to pay contract cost over runs and penalize contractors for work not finished as contracted.
6. stop all outside consulting firm hiring as the city has excellent staff to serve our needs.
7. stop all media (T.V., radio, newspaper) advertising by the city and rely on the Web
8. have city lawyers draw up a standard city contract for all designated work supplied by out side firms.
9. stop all expense accounts across the board (transportation expenses will be allowed). This will include removing office expenses for City Councillors.

No money will be spent on TTC expansion until I am assured and shown that the existing system has been fiscally trimmed to its top operating efficiency.
The Police Department needs a new Chief of Police (after the G8 and G20 disaster). The new chief should be outside of the rank and file and preferably a business manager with a proven record of excellence (To be elected in the future. Not appointed by City Council). Internally the force should be evaluated as to their operational and investigative methods regarding "gun" crimes in the city.

If all the above changes prove successful the Toronto taxpayer should enjoy a reduction in property tax and the removal of frivolous additional taxes imposed by the last City Council and an increase in the efficiency of all civic operations. If we take some of the existing tax burden off the taxpayer and increase civic services, I will have done my part.

Respectfully,

BC Goodhead
 

Where your tax money goes!

Norm Goodhead (my father) owned the Stouffville Landfill that leaked heavy metals into the Stouffville water supply in the late 1970's. Norm also owned the land that the Toronto Zoo is situated on today. He had asked Metro Toronto for a license to put a landfill on the site but was refused. Metro in turn expropriated the property and put a landfill and the zoo on the site. Norm was furious. He also owned Superior Crawford Sand and Gravel in Vaughan and the Honey Pot Ski Lodge. These properties encompassed the block bordered by Dufferin, Major MacKenzie, Keele up to Tenson Road. In the late 1970's early 1980's Metro Toronto (with Paul Godfrey as Metro Chairman) bought a small part of this property for $70 million plus. This property could have been expropriated for $1.2 million (purchase price) and would have included all the property as outlined above. Metro Toronto wanted this gravel pit to dump garbage and it became known as the Keele Valley Landfill site, This left Norm some industrial zoned land and the ski lodge which is now the Eagles Nest Golf Club. Great deal for Norm Goodhead; but, a bad deal for Metro taxpayers

Norm Goodhead from 1959 to 1963 was the Mayor (Reeve) of North York. He passed away in October of 2009 at 92 years of age. The son of my fathers campaign manager at the time was Paul Godfrey. Norm became Paul's mentor and confidant; Norm paid Paul's political bills. When Paul was running for Metro Chairman my father told me that he had just paid $25,000 for a party at the old Inn on the Park that he was not even allowed to attend. It was a party thrown by Paul Godfrey for Toronto Council members only. This was to sway the council into electing Paul, Metro Chairman. Paul became the next Metro Toronto Chairman and hence the purchase of Superior Crawford Sand and Gravel and not its expropriation.

At the time of the above purchase I asked my father if this was enough. He grinned and explained to me how he had just bought the inheritance of two boys up in St Thomas. Apparently their father hated Norm and would not sell his property to him. My father in turn bought out the boys inheritance on speculation. This property was just purchased by Metro Toronto for the new Toronto Landfill Site for $273 million. This was good for Norm;  but, bad for Toronto taxpayers.

I told this to Toronto Council and Mayor Miller and explained to them that the land around the Keele Valley landfill was also dotted in illegal toxic dump sites. I received no answer or questions about this from Mayor Miller.

Anyway I could go on and on as to scams, thefts, etc concerning public property and money.  Norm Goodhead paid off Metropolitan police; he became the "bagman" for the Conservative Party of Ontario and a very high ranking member of the Freemasons. His most often used remark "If they only knew what they have just elected"

Toronto $3 billion in debt; Ontario $120 billion in debt. I decided to run for Mayor because I thought it would give me a voice. A voice that would reach the people of Toronto and yet, the media ignores me. Anyway I'm here and I will continue to speak even if no one listens. I am in no way a politician; I hate politicians.

To The Voters of Toronto

I was asked by Richard Boehnke (416-621-5089) of the Markland Homes Association/Islington Ratepayers and Residents' Association to speak at an "All Candidates Meeting" to be held at Silverthorn Collegiate on Sept. 20th.

I received an email yesterday stating what I could or could not say when I address the meeting.  "Only say what is wrong with the City and how you would make changes if given the chance." However, do not name any other candidate, nor make accusations of any kind etc. If you say something that we don't like we will cut-off your mike." Democracy and Freedom are wonderful objectives yet, the concept hasn't reached Mr. Boehnke as of today.

The problem with the city is racketeering by some of the elected, appointed and public officials at City Hall. The answer is to remove those responsible from public office and to elect some person who will rectify the problem.

If I look at the Toronto taxpayer on the average I see someone who wishes to have his/her taxes lowered and his/her services increased. The average taxpayer knows there has been criminal mismanagement of their tax dollars and yet refuses to admit or act on this knowledge. I feel that some how we expect this theft to occur in city government and we feel powerless to prevent it. As a result we simply vote for anyone who promises to lower our taxes and increase our services, even when we know his/her promises will never happen. This is the main reason for the low voter turn out at the polls.

If you want truth; if you want change; if you want a decrease in taxes and an increase in services please vote wisely,

I have refused to attend the September 20th "All Candidates Meeting"