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I went to what was supposed to be a "community" meeting to find out about a proposed wind farm off the Scarborough bluffs. It was held at Sir Wilfrid Laurier Collegiate Institute in Guildwood, but special interest groups from all over, supporting the 100-plus Toronto Hydro employees, were bussed in to stone wall the "community" meeting.

The presentation was engineered to "delude" or hide the facts about the wind farm's possible side effects.

For example:

A prepared question asks "Will this be harmful to human health?"

A prepared answer replies "No, not the anemometer."

One wonders the obvious, what about the wind farm?

But no one answers that thought, instead, dozens pack the question microphones with hydro-friendly bodies, And the intended question goes unanswered.

At one point, a 22 year old suggested that there was a divide between one generation versus the other and that the older one should roll over and let the new younger ones have their green jobs that hydro was promising the wind farm would deliver.

All in all, it was not a "community" event. It was a disgrace that Toronto Hydro allowed the manipulation of what should have been an information event for the community.

Many community members, I for one, left early with disgust at the brow-beating antics of the over-staged Toronto Hydro personnel and their obvious supporters.

Joe Trentadue