Via Caledonia Wake-Up Call:
With the ongoing problems in Caledonia one has to asked whether there are any leaders elected to Queen's Park. In our view there are lots of MPP who say and do nothing until the party tells them but few, if any, are leaders.
Conservative MPP Randy Hillier appears to be one of the few leaders around - http://dustmybroom.com/content/view/5823/1/
Quote from Mr. Hillier:
"I think probably my greatest moment (of realisation as working MPP) is finding out that government really is as bad as most people think it is. The politicians in government have abdicated their (democratic) responsibility (to constituents) to such a large degree, that many of them have become just figure heads. So often you see in the house (Ont. legislature) that members have been reduced to spitting out party lines, created by the party, handed to them on a piece of paper and told, “this is what you’re going to say today”. There’s one other thing I should mention here about “low-lifes”. Just that the amount of influence by special interest groups in government policy is absolutely atrocious. It’s even gotten so far as government funding these special interest groups to then lobby government back to hire its lobbyists back to change government policies in advance of the interest groups.
As people have vacated their participation in democracy,… it’s been filled by special interest groups…so it’s gotten to the point where to politicians, unless you’re a special interest group, your point of view is unimportant. We especially see this on the environmental side,… but others as well."
OMD - that sounds like our government! You know, the one thats "of the money, by the money and for the money"?
Posted by: unknown | Oct 27, 2008 at 08:00 PM
You got it.
Posted by: unknown | Oct 27, 2008 at 08:00 PM