The following letter was printed today. Father Maroun is trying to let people know that we should look at all the candidates and not just vote for the candidates with the name recognition. WE must stop doing the same thing over and over, that is working against us in the CBRM. New blood and fresh ideas are needed to move forward, and we need someone who is not partisan to a political party once elected. Here is the letter: It Appears “The Old Boys Club” Is Alive And Well In The CBRM I would like to address David Delaney’s Op Ed in the September 10, 2024, edition of the Cape Breton Post. It appears to me and others I have spoken with, that Delaney is favoring Cecil Clarke and Ranking MacSween for the position of mayor of the CBRM. In my opinion, the local overlords are at it again trying to get those elected who will do what the money interests need and want. What early polls indicate that MacSween and Clarke are ahead? This is nothing but an expression of what the old boys club represents here in the CBRM. The local power structure in the CBRM just might be very well our problem in why the Provincial Government will not fund this municipality properly. Perhaps that is happening because that very funding always ends up in the pockets of a few “entitled” businesspeople here who believe that they run our municipality. We had better start to do things differently around here or we will end up like Danford Lake in Quebec that is facing a planned property taxes increase by 370% recently. This year Quebec will receive $13.3 billion in equalization and the folks in Danford Lake are faced with $10,000 property tax bills on small bungalows. Pure corruption because equalization is sent to receiving provinces so that its residents are not overtaxed and our supreme law, the Canadian Constitution, says so in section 36 The CBRM should not listen to David Delaney and hear the platforms of the other candidates who are running for mayor. Perhaps those candidates have the answers to our problems and the public might consider paying close attention to the campaign contributions of those running for mayor as you might just discover who the money interests are around here. The candidate who has fairness for the CBRM residents gets my vote because we do not live equally in this province. So far, I have not heard anything about fairness by Rankin MacSween or Cecil Clarke but a few other candidates such as Archie MacKinnon and Joe Ward both have identified plans in their platform to address this issue. Rev. Dr. Albert Maroun