Secretly recorded video reveals scheme to thwart Calgary’s popular mayor: Steward

[CHIMO]

CALGARY—There is no sign of drugs in a secretly recorded video that involves Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi. And it is not being shopped for $200,000 by shadowy figures.

But despite that, this video has garnered a lot of attention in Calgary because it involves money and some very powerful people: Nenshi, former Reform party leader Preston Manning and Cal Wenzel, one of the city’s most prominent and prosperous homebuilders.

The story begins last November when Wenzel addressed a closed meeting of 150 people from the development industry about how they can thwart Nenshi’s plans for the city by backing candidates in the upcoming municipal elections who will “swing our way.”

Someone in the crowd used a cellphone to record his remarks and then in April turned the recording over to the local Global television station, which broadcast excerpts and then posted the entire 18-minute video on its website.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/06/04/secretly_recorded_video_reveals_scheme_to_thwart_calgarys_popular_mayor_steward.html

[shockedcanadian]

1. Since this video went mainstream...

the question is who took the video? What was their political motivation? Who did they work for?

Also, why isn't this making news on a national network?

I am certainly jaded with the dirty way that politics works, seems to me to be more accurate to the tv show House of Cards, which doesn't bode well for the future of democracy.