Dear Editor:
RE: Guelph/Eramosa councillor voices concerns about COVID mandates, April 7.
Kudos to Advertiser reporter Paige Peacock for her reporting on this article. It was written with dutiful diplomacy and thorough investigation.
All news publications have to have been biting their collective tongues over the past two years when it has come to reporting on COVID-19 vaccination supporters and naysayers, doing their journalistic best to provide a balanced and non-editorial tact.
What I take issue with is the inappropriate rant of Ward 2 Guelph/Eramosa councillor Corey Woods.
Elected officials are, fairly or not, held to a higher standard when it comes to public behaviour than those of us who voted them in to office. Using a council meeting to share his opinion on vaccination status, travel restrictions and the leader of this country is not the appropriate venue and is simply misguided. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but arguably there is a time and place – and this was not it.
The “coup de grace” was the last sentence of the article and possibly the most telling one: “No other Guelph/Eramosa councillors commented on Woods’ statement.”
Perhaps the reason for that is because they wish to get elected.
Margaret Iutzi,
Guelph/Eramosa