Leaks are defamatory?

RE: D’ANGELO WANTS $1.15 MILLION FROM REGION, FEB. 5

Thanks to reporter Grant LaFleche and the rest of the Niagara dailies staff for bringing the truth to the surface over the past few years.

We now have a person, former Niagara Region CAO Carmen D’Angelo, whose hiring has raised questions. The Ontario Ombudsman’s report will show what happened, but what gets me is suing the Region.

Leaks are defamatory? As a taxpayer it is confusing to say the least. Most things are known and do get let out of the bag, so to say, but keeping things from the people who are responsible for them is another thing.

As the man that was supposed to run the region, did D’Angelo not understand that making a backroom deal that the full council was not aware of kind of makes it moot to sue the taxpayers? The media helped to keep the doors of information open to the public, as it should be. Blank forms from the human resources department? Doubt that would happen in the private sector.

Maybe he should sue the person who signed this not-so-normal contract.

Look in a mirror and ask your questions, then look in the HR manual to see how a hiring is to be done. Then ask the questions again.

The taxpayers are tired of this type of continued action.

John Hunt

Niagara Falls