A Canadian politician is under pressure to resign after
someone sent pornography to almost 100 officials and public service chiefs from
his email account on 29 May.
Councillor Andy Petrowski denies using his Niagara Region
government email address to send an indecent image of a woman to 95 people by
hitting 'reply all' to correspondence about local infrastructure.
The St. Catherines representative claims another
(unidentified) person used his government-issued iPad to send the image, which
showed a naked woman with her legs spread apart, to rest of the group.
However, fellow politicians, including the MP for
Ontario, have called for Petrowski to resign – adding that it's not the first
time he has demeaned the office.
The episode started with an email sent at
12.05pm by Niagara Regional Council to 95 individuals, including politicians,
the head of the fire service and a utilities boss.
The message relayed information about work
being carried out at Burgoyne Bridge – a controversial $CA100m (£57m, $74m)
project in Niagara.
At 1.22pm, a reply from Petrowski's email
address was sent to every other recipient of the original email. It said:
"There must have been a sale on these
multi-million dollar, taxpayer-funded, non-functional arches ... guess who put
these up in Ottawa?" he wrote. "You're right if you said .... drum
roll, please....Pomerlau [a development company]...what a joke!"
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