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Shifty Peter Kelly

Exclusive Audio of Mayor Kelly's Meeting with Veterans, Occupiers.

by Miles Howe

This is Halifax's Mayor, Peter Kelly.
This is Halifax's Mayor, Peter Kelly.

You'll need to pay close attention to the beginning of the following audio. Recorded at the October 28th, in-tent meeting between Mayor Kelly, and representatives from both veterans and Occupiers, Mayor Kelly speaks first on the recording. Apologies for the quick intro, that's the way I received the file.

The tape is relevant because the memory of the conversations that took place in the meeting have recently been brought into question. Tom Waters, one of the veterans' representatives at the meeting, recently went public and noted that he thought that Occupiers would be allowed to return to Grand Parade Square after the November 11th Remembrance Day ceremonies. John Thibeau, one of the Occupiers present at the meeting, remembers the same thing. Peter Kelly, the man behind the violent eviction of the Occupiers from Victoria Park, to which the Occupation moved in deference to Remembrance Day, remembers something different. Indeed, he'd pretty much have had to, considering his recent posturing as "strongman-about-town".

So here's the tape to settle the score. But does it?

While Kelly doesn't specifically say "You can come back to Grand Parade on November 12th", he most certainly doesn't say "I'm going to wait until you move somewhere out of the way, until the stores are all closed for Remembrance Day, until most of the city (Occupiers included) is busy with ceremonies, and until there is a torrential downpour...and then I'm going to evict you."

So make of the following audio what you will. To me, it appears that veterans and Occupiers (and even Kelly) come to genuine and respectful consensus. Mayor Kelly never really tips his hand, but he most certainly appears to go along with the process, and offer up the nugget of "many other options are on the table."

I wonder if brutal eviction was one of those options he was thinking of, or did it come to him later?

Please enjoy the following audio between Mayor Peter Kelly, representative veterans, and Occupiers.

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Wow

Submitted by A. Nonymous (not verified) on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 23:12.

Whoever decided to record this is a freakin genius.

Yeah i second that whoever

Submitted by jeff smith (not verified) on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 03:51.

Yeah i second that whoever decide to record this was genius indeed.

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Was the mayor or the Veteran

Submitted by Anonymous in Halifax (not verified) on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 12:53.

Was the mayor or the Veteran aware that they were being taped?  As big of dick the mayor is, you are susposed to tell all parties involved, before being taped.  Unless you are part of a police investigation where a warrant was obtained.

Canadians can record

Submitted by Miles Howe on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 16:45.

Canadians can record conversations that they are involved in, but not conversations that they are not involved in, broadly speaking. This recording was not an intercept of a conversation, because both the recorder, who was involved in the conversation, and one other person who was involved in the conversation, knew the conversation was being recorded. If you are part of a police investigation, you need to have obtained a warrant to use a recorded conversation as evidence.

This conversaton prooves that

Submitted by Paul Le Blanc Anonymous in Halifax (not verified) on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 17:44.

This conversaton prooves that Peter Kelly is a  two faces S.O.B. He can't be trusted ever.Just remember this in the next election!

Canadian law allows for

Submitted by Tim McSorley on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 18:44.

Canadian law allows for recording of private conversations, so long as one of the parties involved have consented to it:

The Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46 [Criminal Code] imposes a general prohibition on interception (recording) of private communications, but then provides an exception where one of the parties to the private communication consents to the interception of that communication. Thus, broadly speaking, Canadians can legally record their own conversations with other people, but not other peoples' conversations that they are not involved in.
 
 
So as long as whoever recorded was a party to the conversation, it is completely legal for the conversation to be recorded. There are additional restrictions places on law enforcement officials and what can be submitted as evidence - details can be found in the same article.
 
It may be more polite to inform people that you are recording, but there are no rules making it mandatory.
 

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