When London restaurants inspections went online for the first time this week, so many diners logged on, the system slowed to a crawl.

But while diners clamoured to learn which eateries had been flagged for violations, there was dead silence at city hall — where not a single politician asked staff to speed up plans to place colour-coded inspection signs — red, yellow and green — on the windows at London eateries.

That political silence isn’t new:

  • In the 40 months since the local medical officer of health proposed making it easier for diners to see inspection reports, no politician at city hall has championed that cause.
  • In the eight months since the task of creating a sign bylaw was handed to the city’s head of bylwaw enforcement, Orest Katolyk, no politician has asked about his work or when it would be done.

In posting inspection summaries online, the Middlesex-London Health Unit lagged 10 others in Ontario, including the Waterloo Region’s, whose website debuted six years ago.

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