Dear Councillors:
I’m writing to encourage you not to fire Gary Webster. It would mean paying out an enormous severance package (about $500,000) just to intimidate City workers and to further politicize the civil service. Webster is bound by professional honesty to serve the Mayor by advising him on the facts as they are and not how we would like them to be. Further, his duty is not only to the Mayor, but to all of us—so he must act in the public interest whether or not that aligns with Ford’s mandate.
Firing people because they can’t honestly agree with you is irresponsible from both a financial and an ethical perspective. Please do the right thing.
Yours,
Neville Park