Union Bay Improvement District Administrator and last trustee from alleged corruption scandal quit

by Christopher di Armani

With so many things to write about every day and so many cases of political corruption and police brutality going on around the nation, it’s not a surprise that I haven’t managed to get back to the Union Bay Improvement District (UBID) and its war of words until now.

It’s not that I didn’t want to. Work and life just get in the way sometimes, you know? But this fine sunny Saturday morning I decided to wade through my long list of articles waiting to be written, and the caption of one news story caught my eye: ”Two quit at Union Bay“.Add New

For those not familiar with the tiny community of Union Bay, on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, it’s the kind of place you wouldn’t think would become the center of a Freedom of Speech battle, yet it is.

Mary Reynolds, a long-time resident of the area, was sued by the [alleged] morons supposedly running the UBID for having the audacity to actually ask questions and point out conflicts of interest where she (and many others) saw them. As a taxpaying citizen, it is her absolute right to question how those who hold public office perform their jobs. Indeed it is all our right to do so.

Those holding public office seldom agree, of course.

Like all good small-town tyrants, those holding office at UBID took great exception to their activities being scrutinized and questioned and did their best to silence Mary Reynolds. That’s when this case first hit my radar. Any time some asinine bureaucrat thinks they can strip honest citizens of their God-given Rights, I tend to get my dander up.

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