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Alberta Politics
Government Corruption, Cover-up, Lies, Fraud, Scams, Family Relations,
Kickbacks, Plots & Conflict of Interest
- All in a small City with 30,000 people - Chestermere, Alberta-
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Premier Smith, Minister Ric McIver, Ethics Commissioner, MLA Dejong, Minister Amery & Minister Elis.
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Alleged Bribery of Staff by Municipal Affairs - Legislative person was offered an increase in salary up to $50k/yr plus a Director of Corporate Services position. Met with staff to convince them to join her. This person was caught disclosing the fraudulent Mar 15, 2022 minutes to a staff member. Bribing a government staff is a criminal offence.
Unfair Government oversight should be questioned by the citizens of Chestermere.
Minister McIver removed our duly elected Mayor and three council members on Dec 4, 2023, while at the same time protecting the three other Councilors that were caught misleading and colluding with Municipal Affairs and the RCMP. These Councillors began orchestrating for the removal of the Mayor and councilors days after the election in Oct 18, 2021.
Minister McIver breached code of conduct by not disclosing his relationship with previous Chalmers .He should have recused himself from dealings with the City of Chestermere.
Within this site you will find evidence of alleged corruption, conflict of interest, collusion, schemes planned and acted upon by Minister McIver, Municipal Affairs staff, ex Councilors and the RCMP detachment in Chestermere.
Our Mayor and Council should not have been removed.
The majority of our Council ran on reducing taxes, stopping wasteful spending, respecting taxpayers dollars, building a commercial tax base, transparency and cleaning up corruption.
The Mayor and Council were elected Oct 18, 2021 by the residents of Chestermere. Mayor Jeff Colvin was elected by a 2 to 1 margin. He won 63% of the vote.
Our Council has gained experience over the first half of their term , and they have seen how our and other municipalities grossly over tax residents and waste tax payers funds. Change is badly needed in Chestermere. Municipal Affairs should leave Chestermere alone , and allow it to function under our duly elected Mayor and Council . As a result of the Municipal Affairs action in removing our Mayor and three Council members , Chestermere is now being governed by unelected officials .
The Province of Alberta passed recall legislation for residents for a reason. To give residents a choice to have their council investigated if they felt they were not performing properly. However, it was not the residents of Chestermere who chose to call for an investigation . There was no petition ,by the residents. The investigation was initiated on the basis of only a few (undisclosed by MLA McIver ) letters by unhappy residents , staff and previous council members . The letters have not been verified as legitimate .Mayor Colvin and Council found and reported numerous instances of possible corruption to Minister McIver, including some that implicated McIver's brother in law, ex Mayor Chalmers. McIver acted on none of the allegations and instead sought avenues to remove Mayor Colvin and Council. We have evidence that shows McIver was caught planning removal of councilors days after election of Mayor and council, Nov 8, 2021.
Our Mayor and Council saved millions of dollars each year for our city. They have cut taxes by 25%. and were in the process of adding a record $4 billion to the commercial tax base. In short, our Mayor and Council were in the process, for the first time, of seriously changing the course of our City.
You will discover a lot of information in this website. Evidence of findings, proof of schemes and kickbacks. McIver is offside, constantly leaking lies to the press, misleading the public with false information and is in breach of ethics and has repeatedly demonstrated a conflict of interest - which is not permitted in his position.
Our Mayor and three Councillors have undertaken court actions against McIver and Municipal Affairs and have further court actions pending. It seems our judicial system is the only way for the truth to be revealed. We must get the government officials under oath and prove to our residents how McIver and other Government officials were wrong to fire our Mayor and Council.
To date, in court, McIver has avoided being under oath, sending others in his place. At this point McIver and Municipal Affairs are in breach of a Judges order to produce the record of evidence, similar to an affidavit of evidence. The record of evidence should justify why Municipal Affairs chose to inspect and fire our Mayor and Council. The fact they have avoided doing so, speaks volumes.
We are anxiously awaiting the opportunity to review and have McIver cross examined. We believe our Mayor and Council will be able to prove in Court that this entire situation has been a hoax, and is an orchestrated plan to protect alleged corruption.
Below are the links that show what our Mayor and Council achieved or were working on. You can also view the information via the website menu. Each page shows the wrongful actions by Minister McIver, Municipal Affairs and all the other characters involved in this charade.
We are open to any questions you may have. We are prepared to go through each and every false statement by McIver and prove with evidence why it is false. Please send us a question and we will get back to you as quickly as possible.
Weekly Focus
We Are OWNERS.
We believe our as residents of Chestermere, our City Hall are in need of a paradigm shift in thinking.
Do you, our neighbor, feel abused, or bullied as a taxpayer, that your not being heard , or the provincial government is in a world of its own and they are spiraling out of control? Are you frustrated that our taxes are being raised, and our tax dollars are not being spent wisely?
Taxpayers should be considered owners, like shareholders of a company. The City works for the taxpayers and needs to work accordingly. We need to take control of our destiny. It is our City. We decide how Chestermere should grow and feel. We do not let others, with outside interest decide.
Our Mayor, Council, and City Hall staff are in the position to create a return to its owners. While we may not get money returned, we should get services and facilities, of our parks, streets and facilities should be well cared for. Our City Hall must perform for us, and not allow them to have their own agenda any longer.
As residents, we have wanted to maintain our small town feel and grow our commercial tax base for 20 years. Yet, past councils have never achieved this goal. In fact even blocked the realization of this. We as residents should stand up and say that is not acceptable.
We have a voice, we need to use it. If we want large lots, then we have large lots. If we want more parks, better policing and more recreation then it must be accomplished by the people we elect to get the job done. And if they don't get the job done, we don't elect them again. The government doesn't get to step in and decide to cancel all the great work our Mayor and Council have done.
We are the owners of Chestermere and we want the best people working for us. These people manage our money, our most valuable assets. Our City budget is over $50M a year. If this was a $50M corporation, you would expect serious experts to get serious results.
Municipal Affairs does not dictate how our City should grow or feel. They have no business making policy decisions like they are now. It's time to take a stand, stop this madness. Stand up for your rights.
Summary of McIver, ex-Councilors, staff Conflicts of interest, bias and irregularities.
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SH Summary v2.pdfYou will see how
Municipal Affairs forced to admit past Council, Minister McIver Brother in law ex Mayor Chalmers ran a deficit every year for their 4 yr term and in 2020 lost $7M and hid from residents.
Municipal Affairs forced to disclose hidden losses by Chalmers Council in lawsuit with City, that were never disclosed to residents, during 2017-2020.
City used government grants to fund operations, which is not allowed. Government Grants are meant for infrastructure projects. Previous councils used grants to operate the city. Complete mismanagement. Our New Mayor and Council did the right thing in trying clean up and restructured City Hall. In their first two budgets, the saved millions in surplus, and provided tax reductions two years in a row. The last year they provided residents with a 25% decrease in taxes - McIver needs to be removed
2023 11 sandberg affidavit financial performance.pdfMunicipal Affairs admits past councils financial performances were dismal - $7M Deficit in 2020. Mayor Chalmers 2017-2020
"Deficits are shown for all four years, consistent negative trend" Municipal Affairs
"Deficit increased 56% from 2017 to 2020" Municipal Affairs
September 2020, Council & Admin were accused of Fraud & Corruption. McIver did nothing, looked into nothing???
Expose the Truth, behind the lies
Municipal Affairs, Ric McIver caught taking away voter rights.
What started the 2022 Chestermere Inspection?
2016 - Chestermere, 5500 residents signed a petition to investigate Mathews Council for alleged corruption and CUI Utilities. - Municipal Affairs did nothing.
2023 - Cochrane, 4000 residents signed a petition to investigate Council for Corruption - Municipal Affairs and McIver do nothing.
2021 - Chestermere, 37 letters, no petition. Many non-residents, no vetting to tell if real people. Three councilors many letters of false information counted.
- McIver calls inspection.🤔🤯
Minister McIver forced to reveal only 37 letters were sent to Municipal Affairs that sparked the inspection and ultimate firing of our Mayor and Council. He admitted many were from former city staff and former Councilors Councilors Narayan, Dean and Watt. . NOT residents! The Minister never verified if people were real people and not fake profiles. Incredible bias!!!
Minister McIver embarrassingly, forced to admit only 9 phone calls over past two years were about current council. - Glaringly obvious conflict of Interest by McIver
Top 7 Question and Answers:
So why is Minister Ric McIver so interested in this small town??
Brother-in-law His brother in law is the ex mayor from last term. - Conflict of Interest.
Highways 1 Realignment: McIver was Minister of Transportation, when AB Transportation (AT) decided not to buy 18 ac. water slides land for Hwy 1 realignment. The only land owner AT did not buyout and on the corner of HWY 1. it was worth the most. Then AT indicates they will not allow development on the owners lands, effectively sterilizing the lands. Reducing the value of the land. Then the City of Chestermere, increased his taxes 10x,s on sterilized lands, that he is not allowed to build on.
The City turns down permits for storage and RV's. The Landowner believes this was an orchestrated event to bankrupt him, another party would get the land for little and then AT would buy his land for $10M, thus making a huge profit. Our council saw the land owner had been mistreated by previous councils and AT. We deliberated on this issue many times trying to right the wrong. We got legal opinions and passed motions to refund approx. 25% portion of the overcharged taxes. All motions to provide a refund were stopped by Minister McIver, through his Administrator Lagore. Even though, the MGA clearly allows a council to refund portions of taxes. - An investigation is needed!
Why has none of the corruption brought forward by this council to Minister Ric McIver, been investigated??
Why has Premier Danielle Smith done nothing??
Danielle ran on cleaning up corruption,
Cleaning up the old boys club and their strings,
What happened to her mandate to support small towns?
Why is all the alleged corruption being wiped under the rug??
The Mayor indicated he was asked three times by provincial people what it would take to stop investigating the past and wipe this away. He has evidence of this, if needed.
Municipal Affairs staff, Ric McIver, Inspector George Cuff, all were provided with the evidence of the irregularities and alleged crimes and have never done anything or included in the inspection.
It seems the government does not want to rock the boat, be transparent and make real change. Real change, real transparency, clean up corruption, respect taxpayers funds and lower taxes is what we ran on.
Mayor Colvin, Councilors Foat, Funk & Hanley are the first to stand up for its residents, fight corruption, speak truth and not back down from Big-Brother Government.
Councilor Funk, says it cannot be any other way. There is no place for corruption in government. Saying, he has seen massive conflict of interest by McIver.
Chestermere is important for its families. These bad characters need to be stopped and we need to take back Chestermere.
Look what happens when you try to expose and then fight back against corruption in government.
We knew the government was a bully. We had brought in advisors and wanted to understand how corruption occurs in a City and how to stop it. The primary issue was a single CAO allows one person to control the flow or lack there of, of information. It is a breeding ground for corruption. We knew they would fight back, they didn't want us to stop the gravy train.
Single CAOs are much easier controlled and manipulated by Municipal Affairs. This was another reason we advocated for our Tri-CAO model.
Municipal Affairs and Lagore were caught multiple times trying to turn staff members. This type of collusion is a breach of ethics and invades and undermines a municipality in the worst ways. Why is in the best interest of the city to get staff to spy on each other, rather than have them working hard as a team? We found many of the reports back to Municipal Affairs by these bad characters were not true, yet Municipal Affairs believed them as they fit their negative attack, their subversive mandate. We know of one situation where a staff member wanted another person job, so lied to Municipal Affairs, and because they were not under oath, they did not have to defend their lies.
This is wrong, how do we stand up against Ric McIver?
We need to stand up against the bullying. Ric McIver has a reputation of being a bully. Which is why he has been able to get away with his antics. Our Council is elected by its people. This is an important point in democracy and is supposed to mean something, in Alberta and In Canada. Having one government official make a unilateral decision, that was not the will of the people, is a smack in the face of democracy.
The provincial government put forth legislation to have a council or councilor recalled. This is done by the people. Minister McIver subverted this important, democratically voted in legislation. Municipal Affairs power over Municipalities needs to change.
We need to send an email to Premier Danielle Smith, the Ethics Commissioner, MLA Chantelle DeJonge and the Crown attorney demanding change and a criminal investigation into the wrongdoings by previous Councils and Minister McIver as they relate to their decisions made in Chestermere.
Please sign the Petition. Link below.
Email Letter & Petition
Premier Smith, Minister McIver, Ethics Commissioner, MLA Dejong, Minister Amery & Minister Elis.
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