Mississauga blogger to City of Mississauga Director of Corporate Security, "CITY STAFF LIE."

Please visit MISSISSAUGAWATCH at www.mississaugawatch.ca

What follows is a video —not because it will change how the City of Mississauga does business, it's just for the record.

The video includes an audio excerpt from a March 26, 2012 interview with Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities and Property Management (aka Director City of Mississauga Corporate Security) wherein I proclaim, "City Staff lie."

My one regret about this interview is that I couldn't muster the courage to also tell Ken Owen that his Security Staff are abusive hacks that

1. fabricate evidence

and:

2. conduct biased, fraudulent investigations.

I'll leave those two for another time....

Mississauga blogger to City of Mississauga Director of Corporate Security, "CITY STAFF LIE." (6:38 min)

(Click here to go directly to the clip on YouTube)

[VIDEO TRANSCRIPT]
Music: Baloney Again by Mark Knopfler

[audio only. Interview with Ken Owen, Director, March 26, 2012]

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

So, what can I do for you today?

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

Okay, just some things.

As you know I'm researching Security and stuff like that, okay, through Freedom of Information. And I just want to talk about some of the incident reports and also the public complaints system.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

Okay.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 201

I have a video camera here. Would you be comfortable if I videotaped myself doi— okay. Would I, could I at least use this video sur- video camera as a second—

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

No. Is that a tape recorder going there?

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

Yeah.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

That's fine.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

Yeah, but I mean I can use this as a tape recorder by not having the lens on. Just as a back-up.

[permission denied]

No? Okay. That's fine.

[fast forward]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

Remember, I'm asking you for an interview. And I'd actually wanted to discuss the Council Code of Conduct and Staff investigating people.

I completely was blown away by realizing that there's [sic] informal investigations that can go on. If—

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

I don't know why keep saying that. Like it's some nefarious thing.

If somebody brings to my—

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

Okay—

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

—attention, an allegation of misconduct on the part of my Staff, whether it's a formal complaint or not, then I'm going to make inquiries about what went on. I want to know the details.

I want to know the other side of the story.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

And I don't blame you.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

If you call that an investigation then, I, you know, it's an investigation. I call—

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

Actually you called it an investigation.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 28, 2012

I call it informal inquiries into the details of a matter.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

Okay, but what happens though is that the public is not privy to what the people say. I —right?

Like you actually do informal queries to the people who are being complained about. And don't contact, or the public may not know at all that this has happened. And—

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 28, 2012

I'm not sure why that matters, but, okay.

[long pause as I summon the courage to tell it like it is.]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

City Staff lie!

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 28, 2012

It is your opinion—

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

No. This is on video.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 28, 2012

It is your opinion that City Staff lie and I take exception to that.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

Okay.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

City Staff are professional, honest and hard-working and your allegations of lying are completely without foundation.

So stop saying that they lie. They do not lie.

[video from October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH videotaping camera held down, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

Hi there.

Could I speak to you for a second?

Cathie Evans, Security Area Manager, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

[inaudible affirmation]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH videotaping camera held down, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

Oh. I thought I heard you say to me that [audio dampened]. Could you confirm that?

Cathie Evans, Security Area Manager, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

I don't think so.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH videotaping camera held down, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

Don't think so? Okay. Thank you.

Cathie Evans, Security Area Manager, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

No, I don't think so. You must have been hearing something.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH videotaping camera held down, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

Yeah, well, thank you. Just wanted to be sure.

[And then speaking into camera] Okay, she said that that was not the case, but we'll see whether the camera picks that up or not.

Ohhhh, the camera picked it up all right...
[video --2 camera angles from October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

City Staff lie!

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 28, 2012

It is your opinion—

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

No. This is on video.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 28, 2012

It is your opinion that City Staff lie and I take exception to that.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

Okay.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

City Staff are professional, honest and hard-working and your allegations of lying are completely without foundation.

So stop saying that they lie. They do not lie.

[Dip to White]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

City Staff lie!

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 28, 2012

It is your opinion—

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

No. This is on video.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 28, 2012

It is your opinion that City Staff lie and I take exception to that.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

Okay.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

City Staff are professional, honest and hard-working and your allegations of lying are completely without foundation.

So stop saying that they lie. They do not lie.

[Dip to White]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

City Staff lie!

[Cross-fade]
[video from October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH videotaping camera held down, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

Hi there.

Could I speak to you for a second?

Cathie Evans, Security Area Manager, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

[inaudible affirmation]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH videotaping camera held down, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

Oh. I thought I heard you say to me that [audio dampened], Could you confirm that?

Cathie Evans, Security Area Manager, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

I don't think so.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH videotaping camera held down, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

Don't think so? Okay. Thank you.

Cathie Evans, Security Area Manager, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

No, I don't think so. You must have been hearing something.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH videotaping camera held down, October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall

Yeah, well, thank you. Just wanted to be sure.

[Push]
[video from October 25, 2010 Mississauga election night inside Great Hall]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

City Staff lie!

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

It is your opinion—

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

No. This is on video.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

It is your opinion that City Staff lie and I take exception to that.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

Okay.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

City Staff are professional, honest and hard-working and your allegations of lying are completely without foundation.

So stop saying that they lie. They do not lie.

[Push]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

City Staff lie!

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

It is your opinion—

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

No. This is on video.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

It is your opinion that City Staff lie and I take exception to that.

[Dip to White]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

City Staff lie!

[Push]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH reporting for the record, April 12 2012

And, not only do City Staff lie, they also fabricate evidence! Thank you Freedom of Information!

And, fortunately, I took the precaution of photographing the real evidence and storing it here on my computer.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

City Staff lie!

[Video clip of March 17, 2008 City of Mississauga Audit Committee meeting]

Mayor Hazel McCallion, Audit Committee, March 17, 2008

I hope that the people we hire are sensitive to the fact that we are dealing with the public and we should give them every understanding possible.

Jamie Hillis, Mississauga Corporate Security Manager, Audit Committee, March 17, 2008

Yes. Absolutely.

[Dip to White]

MISSISSAUGAWATCH reporting for the record, April 12 2012

And. What was the biggest lie ever uttered?

Mayor Hazel McCallion, Mississauga Judicial Inquiry testimony, September 20, 2010

I pride myself on the staff that we have at the City of Mississauga. They're very professional and they follow the policies very, very, very diligently.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

City Staff lie!

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

It is your opinion—

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

No. This is on video.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

It is your opinion that City Staff lie and I take exception to that.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH interview with Ken Owen, March 26, 2012

Okay.

Ken Owen, Director, City of Mississauga Facilities/Property Management and Corporate Security, March 26, 2012

City Staff are professional, honest and hard-working and your allegations of lying are completely without foundation.

So stop saying that they lie. They do not lie.

Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion, Audit Committee, May 11, 2009

I'm getting a little frustrated as Mayor as we set up policies and then they're not followed. And that's what bothers me.

[fast forward]

You know, I don't know why there's such a disregard for policy.

[logo]

[VIDEO TRANSCRIPT ENDS]

Signed,

MISSISSAUGAWATCH

(About) MALTON COMMUNITY CENTRE --MISSISSAUGAWATCH.CA (non) mayoral address (Lincoln Alexander Secondary School)

What follows is my experience trying to get my mayoral (non) campaign speech across to the audience still hanging tough inside the cafeteria at Lincoln Alexander Secondary School on October 7, 2010 when my turn finally came.

As a strategy I waited until Mayor Hazel McCallion gave her talk—which everyone assumed was the last of the evening. Nope.

I'd been waiting a very long time to talk to the good folks in Malton and especially Lincoln Alexander. And it was Show Time.

I won't be providing a transcript of the video (they cut the microphone on me because they didn't know that I was a mayoral candidate and—well, you'll have to watch). So instead, along with the video, I'll just cut-and-paste my script.

Dedicated to Malton --MISSISSAUGAWATCH.CA (non) mayoral address (Lincoln Alexander Secondary School) 7:34 min

(Click here to go directly to the clip on YouTube)

SCRIPT OF THE MALTON/LINCOLN ALEXANDER SPEECH

Hi. I'm unique among the people here because I am *not* running, I'm simply registered. I registered as part of my research into municipal governance and the City of Mississauga in particular. Since January 2007 I've spent over $2,000 on Freedom of Information to investigate Mississauga.

The McMurtry/Curling Report on The Roots of Youth Violence states:

"Community Centres and programs run by mainstream social service providers that have facilities are not “youth-friendly” or accessible to youth, particularly Black youth.

"Not youth-friendly"—that’s what I see too.

I have a moral obligation to tell you something.

In 2008 I attended four Mississauga Youth Plan meetings, one of which was held across the street at Malton Community Centre on March 3, 2008. I witnessed a City of Mississauga security guard deny a half dozen black youths entrance into that meeting. A couple of the kids peered through the window to friends inside and gestured that the guard wasn't letting them in! I've got a photograph to prove that.

At this meeting, youth were asked to write up a wish list. Of the four Youth meetings I attended throughout the city, Malton kids were the only ones to write "DON'T KICK US OUT" as a wish.

However, you won't see "DON'T KICK US OUT" recorded in the City's official version of the Mississauga Youth Plan!

Here are the City's Security records for Malton Community Centre January 1, 2006 until September 26, 2008. During that time, City security guards issued 200 bans and arrests!

By contrast, the combined stats for Cawthra, Meadowvale, Clarkson and River Grove show only 22 bans representing more than twice the foot traffic of Malton Community Centre. And no arrests.

People might respond with, “Well, you know, this is Malton –isn’t 200 what you expect?”

So I investigated the City's bans for the nearby Westwood Mall Transit Terminal during the same period. NO bans—or arrests. Zero.

I don't know about you but I am pretty sure more people go through that transit terminal in a day than Malton Community Centre.

From what I can figure, of the 200 Malton Community Centre bans/arrests, 48% of them are youth and minors.

Contrary to its own guidelines, the City does not inform parents when a child is banned. Over the entire City there are hundreds of parents and guardians with no clue of the City's bans to their kids.

That's deadly because if a kid returns to property before a ban's expiry, he is ARRESTED. Freedom of Information retrieved this direct quote from the Director of Corporate Security about the Arrest policy: "…no exceptions. Let them tell it to the judge".

And that's still not the worst part.

It's what Staff and security guards write about you or your kid into their computer system that you have to worry about. The vast majority of people written into City Security's "occurrence narratives" simply cannot imagine what's written about them!

And that computer database with stuff written about your kid rides in the front seat console of every one of the City's Security RESPONSE UNITS.

And how would you like to be the parent of this kid?

Or this one?

If your kid goes to Malton Community Centre I urge you to file Freedom of Information on any records that the City of Mississauga might have on your youngster.

If nothing comes up, great.

If it does? Do not try to fix things up by dealing directly with City Security. They are highly-accomplished liars and I have proof of this. Besides, you can't remove what these security guards wrote about your kid. But you CAN enter into the records your youngster's side of the story.

And you can file a complaint—even if it was something that happened back in 2006.

Go to www.mississaugawatch.ca. I will help!

Thanks for listening.

Signed,

MISSISSAUGAWATCH

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Hazel McCallion has been Mayor of the City of Mississauga for over 30 consecutive years. Ever wonder how this Canadian mayor managed to outlast Fidel Castro? (and fool the entire planet?)

We filed Freedom of Information to find out!

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MISSISSAUGA CITIZEN-BLOGGER RUNS FOR MAYOR

WE'VE MOVED. PLEASE GO TO WWW.MISSISSAUGAWATCH.CA

Hazel McCallion has been Mayor of the City of Mississauga for over 30 consecutive years. Ever wonder how this Canadian mayor managed to outlast Fidel Castro? (and fool the entire planet?)

We filed Freedom of Information to find out!

And of course, we've been videotaping Her Worship since September 2006...

Video Exclusive: How Mississauga's MYTHissauga Duped the World

For what's really going on at Mississauga City Hall as confirmed by documents secured through Freedom of Information, please visit:

MISSISSAUGAWATCH BLOG at www.mississaugawatch.ca

Follow MISSISSAUGAWATCH on Twitter.

MISSISSAUGAWATCH at MISSISSAUGAWATCH Facebook

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MISSISSAUGAWATCH photos (and documents secured through Freedom of Information) at Flickr The Mississauga Muse

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