Walking in Waterloo Region

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Jump to conclusions much?  Jaworsky just passed the third month of his term and I'm sure that he's been hit with a fire hose of data from staff, fellow councilors and citizens.  I'll think I'll make my next choice for Mayor based on four years of work rather than just one comment on the subject of sidewalk clearing.

Actually when it comes to things like this, usually a very small sample suffices. Let's give him three chances. Comments from  Jaworsky so far:

1. "softening global economy"
   
2. "one person wants the sidewalk cleared by 6:30am" so no we can't do it.
   
3. "it will cost untold amounts of dollars" (false)
   
4. "we need to spend 4.5 million in equipment" (false we can rent, and even if we purchase this is a fleet of 45 bobcats, or 5 times the size of the one in London)
   
5. "all emails came from a single group" (false)
   
6. "we cannot do this and LRT" (huh?)
   

You might want to withhold your judgment, but you can't seriously expect every one else to look the other way at the collection of pearls above. He had plenty of chances to show clear thinking and failed each time around. Let's hope he has the flu and will do better next time around, but experience tells us that barring that, a clear pattern has been established.

Also contrast his response with that of Kitchener Major Berry Vrbanovic: "we'll study the issue". It really isn't that hard.