Semantics, sophistry, and a bag of pretzels.

This was the response Councillor John McDonald received when he suggested that staff ought to be compelled to respond to emails sent by residents for information or explanation.

Councillor McDonald was specifically referring to two emails, one sent by a Rose Curley and another by Charlene Riopelle, the former asking about procurement policies for capital projects and the latter having to do with Ma-Te-Way.

You should have seen them twisting in their seats.

But seat-twisting aside, Councillor McDonald was slapped-down in his request, for a number of reasons, some of them patently absurd.

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