What happened on Monday, May 30 was a flat-out embarrassment to our city.

After Mayor Doug McCallum called a recess because people were heckling him to either step down while his public mischief charge plays out in court 鈥� or resign outright 鈥� the towel was ultimately thrown in an hour later and the meeting was adjourned and rescheduled to Wednesday, June 1.

Coun. Linda Annis says council has 鈥渉it rock bottom.鈥� Coun. Laurie Guerra calls what happened Monday night 鈥渄isgraceful.鈥�

They are both right.

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When things get this ugly and personal inside city hall, a place where business should always be conducted with respect, dignity and professionalism, we should hang our collective heads in shame.

Nobody should ever feel unsafe or threatened while trying to govern our great city.

鈥淢y husband is horrified and very worried,鈥� Guerra said. 鈥淲e had escorts to go out to our vehicles, this is disgraceful that it鈥檚 happening in our beautiful city.鈥�

Disgraceful indeed.

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While nobody can argue McCallum and his mayorship was not centre-stage in Monday鈥檚 brouhaha, others played a role 鈥� a council whose dysfunction approaches the legendary, and an 鈥渁gitated鈥� crowd. Something had to give, and the dam broke on Monday.

But being agitated does not excuse the behaviour of residents hell-bent on taking McCallum down.

There is, after all, a proper way to do that 鈥� at the polls.

Council meeting tonight, the public outcry from and my calls for McCallum to step down. Public has spoken-down

鈥� Jack Hundial (@JackHundial)

Canadian voters are typically a forgiving lot at the voting polls, until they are not.

A certain point gets reached where a reckoning occurs that leaves few political survivors behind.

Take the 1993 federal election, when Kim Campbell鈥檚 Tory government was crushed down to a mere two seats, the provincial NDP government鈥檚 near wipe-out in 2001, the collapse of B.C.鈥檚 Social Credit Party 鈥� which had dominated B.C. politics for four decades prior 鈥� within a year of being trounced by voters in 1991.

When push comes to shove, Canadian voters will, proverbially speaking, throw the baby out with the bath water. All members of 性视界传媒 council would do well to remember, as the next civic election approaches not five months away, that they serve at the public鈥檚 pleasure until they do not.

性视界传媒 residents are unlikely to tolerate more collapsed meetings like Monday鈥檚.

Anger aside, 性视界传媒鈥檚 council chambers is the people鈥檚 house and must be respected by all.

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