Ispent years watching how some members of city council behave when the cameras are off and the pressure is on. It is not something most residents ever see. Many would be shocked. I certainly was when I first took office. In time I learned to tune it out, but that should never be necessary in public service. The recent conduct of Councillor Janice Lukes is another reminder of what happens when elected officials start believing the job gives them authority over the people rather than responsibility to them.

At the November 27 council meeting, Councillor Lukes said she had never seen a petition calling for better transit service to the Grace Hospital. Not one. She spoke as though the issue had suddenly appeared from nowhere. Yet residents had sent her that petition twice and her office respo

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