Personal Attacks by Toronto Columnists or Journalist Against Candidates Are UN Canadian

March 20, 2010 - PRLog -- The recent negative attacks and name calling against Rob Ford by James, Royson of the Toronto Star have no place in our Toronto politics.

If a Toronto columnist wishes to run for office based on their views then do so, otherwise leave their personal opinions out of their reporting. When a person not seeking elected office has solely negative views and nothing positive to say about fellow Canadian who is seeking and elected office then they should at least keep it to themselves.

In my humble opinion our Canadian set of values for politicians, reporters, journalists or columnist should be one of not resorting to a media arsenal of resorting to personal attacks in their efforts to keep their fellow NDP and special interest groups in control of our city’s council.

Negative campaigning is hardly new, but when it is started and done by supposedly neutral Canadian columnist or journalist to protect their own personal socialist view and ideologies is at worst unethical.

So let’s stop this American style of one sided journalism of hitting the people’s candidates below the belt, who do not share their personal views before it gets completely out of hand here in Toronto.

Rob Ford is the one incumbent councillor who has attempted to be constructive in controlling councillors spending of twice the annual rate of inflation. To refer to him as destructive is completely out of touch with reality pertaining to his personal efforts at cutting costs.

Peter Clarke is of the opinion that the majority of taxpayers would welcome the honesty of transparency by posting all the expenses of city bureaucrats on the web, along with those of councillors. According to Rob there are 1,254 MasterCard’s "floating around city hall, and you can't even get a list of what they're spending on. They have a limit of $30,000 and spending $9 million a year and we can't examine them. That'll change. Guaranteed."

Peter Clarke, as yet an unofficial candidate for council in one of the North York wards, wishes Ford along with all the mayoralty candidates good health and the best in their efforts for change and getting elected on Monday October 25, 2010.

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Peter is the CEO, Chairman and founder of Ellis Clarke one of the largest privately held strategy facilitation firms in the world and a leading global strategy consulting facilitator.