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In May 2004, she abandoned her position as city councillor to pursue her own agenda federally and then in July 2004 she officially resigned her position as city councillor in mid-term after being elected federally (source of info. City of Vaughan
http://www.city.vaughan.on.ca/
The word "abandoned" is not needed, as "resigned" suffices. Also the text "her own agenda federally" seem unecessary, once it's stated she's ran for, and won federal office. Also, the link given, is just a city's home page, and the home page doesn't specifically relate to this. --
rob13:51, 30 October 2005 (UTC)reply
"abandoned" and "resigned" have two differnt meanings. The link is to the City of Vaughan website once there you have to click on governement. It shows tha facts about that she "abandoned" her position in May, 2004 and "resigned" in July, 2004 Thivierr/Rob asked for me to put a source of info. up so I did. —Preceding
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Hello,
User:64.231.242.98. I have added a referenced note to the page showing the date of Susan Kadis' resignation from the Vaughan City Council. Please add the same for the "abandoned" comment. --
YUL89YYZ19:29, 30 October 2005 (UTC)reply
The "abandoned" was not official like the "resignation" an exact date I don't think could be pin-pointed. She just stopped attending meetings starting in May, 2004 to run her campaigne federally. I think the attendance of councillors are listed somewhere on the City of Vaughan website. Just for your information the proper proceedure (here in Canada) when an elected official seeks another elected position while still serving the original term they must resign (or in some cases take an official unpaid leave of absence) there position prior to starting there campaign for the new position they are seeking. she did not do this. Susan Kadis was under a lot of scrutiny (locally) after the election for making this mistake and there was a group that even attemped to get her impeached for this. —Preceding
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I was thinking about this and isn't this normal when a person runs for a federal position. If I was to run for office, I would ask for a leave of absence from my current job, and if I were to win I would then resign. You can't expect a City Counillor or anyone to always wait for her term to expire and then wait for the next federal election to run. Isn't this what
Olivia Chow did? --
YUL89YYZ15:15, 31 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I hope this answers your question. Susan Kadis did NOT take an unpaid leave of absence she just stopped attending meetings and therefore abandoned her position. She had to take an unpaid leave of absence or resign prior to running her campaign federally which she did not therefore she was still on the city pay roll during and even after she was elected federally, if you look at her resignation letter you will notice that the letter was written and received on July 9th and she requested that her resignation to be retro-activated to June 28th. The proper procedure is to write a letter prior to starting your campaign of either resignation or a letter stating that you are taking an unpaid leave of absence with an understanding that this letter will also act as a letter of resignation pending the outcome of the election. If Vaughan council wanted to give her a hard time and voted against retro-activating her resignation she would not be able to be sworn in as a Member of Parliament. Lots of politicians do run for other positions while still in office including your example of Olivia Chow but they take an official unpaid leave of absence (that could be found in the council meeting minutes) and then either return to office or automatically resign after the election depending on the out come of the election. In Olivia Chow’s case she requested to end her unpaid leave of absence and returned to office after losing federally. The reason they have this in place is to avoid already elected candidates an unfair advantage by
1. Getting paid from their original position to fund their campaign
2. To avoid them using the resources from there original elected position
3. To use there position as an elected official to convince voters to vote for them EG: vote for me and I will get you break on your (municipal) property tax before I resign, to builders and construction companies, vote for me or you will never get a building permit from the city again. (I used these two examples for a reason because they were used) —Preceding
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Wikipedia has rules about the application of POV bias. This article will not use the term "abandoned", and it will not describe a federal election campaign as "pursuing her own agenda". This is a fundamentally biased and inappropriate description.
Bearcat19:54, 3 November 2005 (UTC)reply
November 22 edits
What the anon editor posted:
In a report from CTV news
[1] it said Susan Kadis and her cronies spent over $380.000.00 of taxpayers money this year on lunches.
No, it did not. It said that Kadis and other MPs get free lunches. These MPs, from all four parties and independents, are not Kadis's cronies by any stretch of the imagination. The article quotes her, but does not suggest that she is a ring-leader in MPs getting free lunches, as they have done for a long time.
Kadis has got her family members and cronies on the federal payroll
[2].
The reference does not say that Kadis got her family members and cronies on the federal payorll. All it says is that Jim Peterson, MP, has someone with the last name "Kadis" on payroll. Even if it is her son, there is nohing in federal hiring rules to prevent children of MPs from working for other MPs or federal agencies.
Her illegal interference in a municipal by-election where she got her federal employees to run her friends campaign.
No evidence provided by anon editor.
In May 2004 under controversial circumstances, she stopped attending city council meetings without taking a leave of absence to pursue election to the Canadian House of Commons, and then on July 9, 2004 she officially resigned her position as city councillor after being elected federally on June 28, 2004.
The reference
here does not provide evidence of any of the so-called "controversy". It only provides evidence that she resigned her position as councillor after she was elected to the House of Commons, which is perfectly legal. No evidence has been provided that she "abandoned" her position or failed to take a leave of absence. I'm not saying it didn't happen, just that no evidence has been provided for that.
Ground Zero |
t23:11, 22 November 2005 (UTC)reply
Is this article from CTV even enough to include in her entry? Was there any more attention than this one article? It's presence seems to overstate its importance.
Thes entinel22:59, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
External Links
I don't think the external links on this page really need to be there. They're clearly partisan in nature and they're things that could be found by simply searching her name on Google. This is an encyclopedia, not a place for people to try and present one-sided, biased news articles
pm_shef22:48, 29 November 2005 (UTC)reply
Once again, the external links to news sources do not need to be on this page. They are easily findable via google and serve no purpose on this encyclopedia entry.
pm_shef20:56, 8 December 2005 (UTC)reply
News links can certainly be relevant when they are needed to back up facts in the article. In general, citations on Wikipedia are a good thing. So the relevance of news links should be judged by that standard. -
Joshuapaquin23:08, 8 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Ontario Liberal Party nomination
I have seen the following statement, "Kadis ran for the provincial
Liberal Party nomination for the riding of Thornhill in
2003, but lost to fellow city councillor
Mario Racco.", added and removed many times. It would seem pretty easy for someone to find a reference for this. If it is true it should stay in the article. --
YUL89YYZ13:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)reply
No. To my knowledge the Liberal Party of Ontario doesn't keep records of such things. And if they do, they would only be available in their files.
69.156.207.6106:15, 24 January 2006 (UTC)reply
Racco never attempted to get the federal nomination (against Kadis in 2004 adn 2006), if he did he would have "steamed rolled" over Kadis for the nomination like he did Provincially. Kadis was aclaimed as the federal liberal candidate--
64.231.172.23605:02, 19 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Got it: Toronto Star, Sept. 3, 2003, pg A8. "Liberals see a 905 opportunity" by Ian Urquhart:
Kadis entered the nomination fray but faced an uphill climb against Racco, who had a head start. McGuinty could have made it easy for her by using his power to appoint a candidate in up to five ridings. That would have been highly controversial, however, because Racco had already seen a federal nomination ripped from his grasp in 1997 when Prime Minister Jean Chretien appointed Elinor Caplan as the Liberal candidate in the riding.
So McGuinty let the nomination battle proceed in May of 2002, and Racco won.
I know there's a convention for how newspapers should be cited in Wikipedia now, but I'm not familiar with it. Perhaps someone who is could set it up. -
Joshuapaquin00:19, 15 February 2006 (UTC)reply
MP Lunches
Alright, so since
User:VaughanWatch has decided that previously agreed upon changes to the article aren't good enough, let's come to a clear consensus.
No other MP in the article has it mentioned in their entry.
It happened almost a full year ago.
It has no bearing on her career or work as a politician
Wow, you agree with him? That's a surprise /sarcasm. Seriously though, check the edit history, the admin Bearcat said that the lunch thing should be left out.
pm_shef03:54, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Put it in and cite it if there's serious media coverage, and tailor it to the extent of that media coverage. More information is always better, but keep things in perspective. And cut out the ad hominem against pm_shef, who is acting with courtesy and good faith. -
Joshuapaquin04:59, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
VaughanWatch, we've been through this charade before. You need to provide evidence that the lunch thing was actually considered a major issue which got serious media coverage. I believe that you're citing it in an attempt to discredit Susan Kadis because of your personal agenda against her — it did not get widespread media coverage, and was not considered a major political issue. And again, can the ad hominem attacks on pm_shef — you will discuss the matter on the level of the issues themselves. The next person who even insinuates that pm_shef's argument is automatically invalid because of who he is, rather than engaging the discussion in good faith, is going to be whining on the business end of a 24-hour editblock.
Bearcat19:15, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
There is a difference between a newspaper and an encyclopedia. Mention in the media does not, by itself, justify mention in an encyclopedia. You'll have to do more to convince me that it deserves to be here.
HistoryBA00:56, 4 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Since this issue is clearly not going to be resolved without intervention, I've listed this matter at the Canadian notice board for input.
Bearcat00:11, 4 April 2006 (UTC)reply
I decided to fix this up. The way coverage of the "lunch issue" was written gave a very negative bias; in fact, much more negative than the source article (which was clearly a light public-interest story, and didn't take a stand on whether or not the MP lunches were a waste of money, the way the article wording strongly implied.) I see no harm in leaving a link to the article, though... but I feel that in order to be neutral, the link should merely quote the headline of the article, rather than use the same negative editorializing that was present before. I strongly advise the editors pushing the inclusion of this in the article to take a wiki-vacation, and when you come back, read
WP:NPOV, take it to heart, and try to find articles to edit that you don't have an agenda for. This is ridiculous.
Mangojuice04:39, 4 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Hmm, it's kind of confusing to have that note there with no reference to the article. It looks like a reference for something, but isn't. So I'm not sure this is a good solution. -
Joshuapaquin04:55, 4 April 2006 (UTC)reply
No problem, just fixed that. If this still doesn't look good, we can always make a separate subsection for "references."
Mangojuice13:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)reply
It still doesn't look good. Joshuapaquin's point is well-taken. We'll do some re-wording of the lunch paragraph to make it more "NPOV", if that's possible. We'll see if it's acceptable to the censors.
VaughanWatch01:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC)reply
It has nothing to do with censorship. It's about the fact that the lunch issue has nothing to do with anything. It was a minor, unimportant issue which nobody noticed or cared about, which never got to a vote anyway and thus isn't going to result in anything. It's a dead issue with no real-world impact. It is not "censorship" to state that something so utterly irrelevant to anything does not belong in an encyclopedia article, or that anti-Kadis POV is the only reason anybody could possibly think something so meaninglessly trivial belonged here. As per
WP:NPA, you will immediately stop branding anybody who disagrees with you a "censor".Bearcat02:07, 5 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the
WP:NPA on me, VaughanWatch. I've removed the lunches bit, again. Without any other sources to back up the idea that this is a story of any importance to Susan Kadis' career, the only conclusion a reasonable person can reach is that this is one of those run-of-the-mill news stories about minor political figures, mentioned once on some news service and then forgotten. I will move the article link to an external links section, as it no longer refers to part of the article.
Mangojuice04:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)reply
The CTV article was not minor. I remember when they broadcast it - in fact at the time I didn't even know Susan Kadis was involved. As I recall it got into at least 2 different major newscasts or newspapers. It was the important news of the day, was broadcast all over the country on CTV's evening news. Sure it may have been forgotten 2 days later, but so are most news reports. And according to google, Susan Kadis has not been mentioned in any other major articles since then, except the Michael Ignatieff issue. The few times Susan Kadis receives national press coverage should warrant inclusion in her encyclopedia article, not the sensing and cindering that's been going on.
VaughanWatch09:30, 5 April 2006 (UTC)reply
I agree with your google results. And thank you for trying to debate the merits. I think the problem I see with the inclusion of this is the way that it's included as part of her biography, as if it was a significant event in her life: I'm sure it was of very minor significance, and frankly, your response backs that up. I created a section on "press coverage" where this could be reasonably mentioned, and I added a couple other Susan Kadis refs from CTV; one about sexist remarks in the Belinda Stronach backlash and the other about the separatist allegations against the Gov. General Michaelle Jean. Both of those are much more signficant events politically than this lunches business: I recognize a slow news day article when I see one. I think the wording I have now is neutral; it's important not to describe this in more space or it makes it appear much more significant.
Mangojuice13:35, 5 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Mentioning the article, even if the wording is technically NPOV, is a bit of stretch for inclusion in Kadis's entry. In the article itself, it is not about Kadis, Kadis had no rule in implementing the free lunch policy, Kadis isn't singled out for using the privilege any more than any one of the other 300+ MPs. It seems she is only mentioned because she's one of the four people in the House caf when the reporter showed up for this light piece of throwaway journalism. The connection of this issue to Kadis is not even tangential, its serendipitous. Let's admit that its continued presence is really just a result of everyone's exhaustion in dealing with those who insist on including it. If you want to make the point that Kadis is wasteful or unaccountable, find something that proves it and, by all means, include it for all to see in her entry.
Thes entinel21:53, 13 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Recent edits
Is there any substantive reason for Wikipedia to go out of its way to characterize Susan Kadis as a
feminist? Has she specifically been involved in feminist activism, or is it just being added in the sense that it's applied by certain people to any woman with a public career?
Bearcat07:05, 26 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Leadership endorsement
Just for the record: any MP is allowed to endorse or support any leadership candidate of their choice; Kadis does not have any geographic or scratch-my-back obligation to support Bevilacqua or Volpe for the leadership. (Especially since, let's be honest, neither one of them really has much chance of winning in the first place.) This article is not to communicate anyPOV assumption or expectation that she should be supporting somebody she isn't. How many times, exactly, have we had to point out that neutral point of view and
verifiability are not negotiable requirements on Wikipedia?
Bearcat01:31, 10 June 2006 (UTC)reply
The neutrality of this article is disputed
The neutrality of this article is disputed; the article appears to be very much a self-written promotion. She has been involved in many scandals coming from Vaughan council and now within the federal liberal party, she was even asked by liberal insiders to step a side. None of this relevant information for an encyclopaedia article is mentioned--
ThornhilllWatch17:26, 3 December 2006 (UTC)reply
That doesn't necessarily mean that she's believes in Judaism. It is quite possible, and more likely in my opinion, that the newspaper meant that she is part of the Jewish community and merely of Jewish ethnicity. I doubt that they had asked each of those five MPs what they think about religion; they merely knew their ethnicities. Kadis' own use of the term is also likely in an ethnic/social sense. I may be wrong but we shouldn't assume a particular meaning when several are possible. I don't think that is a sufficient citation. One shouldn't assume that a person believes in the Jewish religion merely because they are of Jewish ethnicity. --
JGGardiner17:16, 13 June 2007 (UTC)reply
If you are looking for a link which states she believes in Judaism, I don't think you will find one (I tried but was unsuccessful). However, when her father passed away in 2003 the family had a
shiva which is a religious function (if found this in the obituary here:
http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogspi/200os/03sau002.htm). --
YUL89YYZ18:21, 13 June 2007 (UTC)reply
That's probably true. I doubt she's a Bobby Fischer. But I have also met more than a few people who have told me exactly that. There are plenty of atheist Jews out there. Personally I think that we shouldn't say anything in the absence of evidence. I actually thought that it would be easy to find but I had no luck searching as well. --
JGGardiner00:24, 18 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Thanks. Sorry if I was a little pushy on that one. When I first asked, I actually thought that a synagogue membership would show up. One probably will sooner or later. --
JGGardiner19:10, 18 June 2007 (UTC)reply
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