– not having to listen to opinions you don’t want to hear during public consultations.
McGuinty defends closed-door ‘public consultations’ on poverty
Premier Dalton McGuinty is defending his government’s invite-only consultations on a new poverty strategy after people were thrown out of the first meeting.
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McGuinty says the government wants to meet with selected groups behind closed doors to hear their ideas for dealing with poverty.
He says there are lots of ways for people to give government their opinions on poverty without attending the public consultations.
Most of us are already quite aware that government interest in what the citizenry has to say on any given topic is only really evidenced during election campaigns….. and then, the day they are sworn in, that interest is immediately replaced by the sure and certain knowledge of what is good for people.
– we are not quite so used to them blatantly admitting to this phenomena.
Does anyone reading this doubt that McGuinty already knows what the solution is, and is holding his by invitation only public consultations to confirm that opinion?
Do go ahead and use one of those other ways of communicating your opinion to the government, maybe an email, without the word poverty in the subject line…… make someone actually open it before it’s deleted.
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It boggles my mind that Mr. McGuinty and the liberals were re elected.
The only real chance at showing our displeasure when we are lied to and manipulated by a party is in the very next election after we have been lied to and manipulated. It’s not as if there aren’t lots of other parties to vote for.
How many folks think that closed access to public policy consultations is a guiding liberal principle. Maybe Jonah Goldberg.