Talk To The Animals

Do you remember the movie Dr. Dolittle? I thought about that recently in relation to the border.

Oh you are a cynic aren't you. For heaven sakes, I didn't mean to suggest that the Mayor has done little on the border file. Although the name seems appropriate.

No, I read an interesting quote from our Mayor dealing with pet shops that triggered the memory. Mayor Eddie Francis said:

• "I would be the first to admit that if council passed a law banning pet stores from selling cats and dogs there may be an issue, because that's what pet stores are in the business of selling," Francis said."

There may be an issue on the border. Didn't Council passed a bylaw that prevented the Bridge Company from tearing down their empty homes on Indian Road and partnering with the Green Corridor from the University to green the area. Maintaining their bridge is what the Bridge Company is in business to do is it not, just like pet stores are in business to sell cats and dogs.

The problem is that Eddie and the Bridge Company people aren't talking to each other. Perhaps that's because the Mayor is afraid to do so without his lawyer. Councillors aren't allowed to talk to them either since the Mayor has made it clear that he is the Leader on the border file. Accordingly no one is talking to anyone.

It seems to me that Dr. Dolittle may be around and if he can talk to animals then he could talk to everybody involved in this file. Perhaps the Mayor could retain him as well....heck we have paid millions to Schwartz and Estrin so far. What's a few dollars more for Windsor taxpayers?

Finally, Eddie could be known as Mayor Dosomethingalready.