{"id":3469,"date":"2021-12-04T20:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T20:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editionap.ca\/2021\/12\/04\/council-denies-support-for-mayors-protest\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:55:11","slug":"council-denies-support-for-mayors-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tribune-express.ca\/en\/politique\/council-denies-support-for-mayors-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Council denies support for mayor\u2019s protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Council voted 4-3 on a resolution denying any support for Mayor Assaly on her actions and statements made as part of her daily noon-hour protest walk last month about what she described as \u201cthe toxic atmosphere\u201d at the municipal office for staff and herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhereas on or about November 9 2021, the Mayor has been demonstrating in front of the Town Hall,\u201d stated the resolution, \u201cwhile making comments relating to what she deems to be a \u2018toxic\u2019 work climate in the Town of Hawkesbury and attributing, at least in part, this \u2018toxic\u2019 work climate to one or more employees of the Town of Hawkesbury, and whereas the Council of the Town of Hawkesbury does not adopt or support the action or comments made by Mayor Assaly at her events, especially with regard to employees of the Town of Hawkesbury, therefore the council of the Town of Hawkesbury hereby adopts the following: the actions of the mayor and her comments and her demonstration are not representative of the views of the council of the Town of Hawkesbury. They are not made with the authority of council. Council apologizes to all city employees for the mayor\u2019s actions and requests that this resolution be shared with all city employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Councillors Raymond Campbell, Andr\u00e9 Chamaillard, Robert Lefebvre and Yves Paquette voted for the resolution. Mayor Assaly and Councillor Lawrence Bogue voted against it. Councillor Antonios Tsourounakis abstained from voting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkesbury council has put distance between itself and Mayor Paula Assaly over her protest walk in front of town hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique"],"acf":[],"featured_media_global":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Council denies support for mayor\u2019s protest - Tribune-Express<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune-express.ca\/en\/politique\/council-denies-support-for-mayors-protest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Council denies support for mayor\u2019s protest - 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