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.