Monday, September 14, 2009

Maclean's Forum in Toronto: Our Democracy is Broken

For those of you who would like to attend the Maclean's forum called Our Democracy is Broken, it is being held at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto on Wednesday, September 23. The cost is $20 plus a $3 service fee. It is $15 for Maclean's magazine subscribers, students, and seniors.

The moderator will be Peter Van Dusen from CPAC. Panelists include Andrew Coyne and Paul Wells from Maclean's, former leader Ed Broadbent, Eddie Goldenberg, John Ralston Saul, and Tasha Kheiriddin.

I hope many people will attend.

Maclean's forum: Our Democracy is Broken

St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts
Toronto
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
7-9 p.m.
Tickets $20 plus $3 service fee--$15 for Maclean's subscribers, students, and seniors.

4 comments:

Undivulged Name said...

Dear "Skimpy": (as in applying as little thought as possible to creating this "poll" without lots of spaces for write-in names, or an apology for offering a premature group of names).
But then, maybe guys like you prefer to vote for a NAME. There will be, obviously, other as-yet undeclared potential candidates out there, even one quite interesting one I've already heard of who's not on your list.
C'mon, skimpy...are you trying to damn us to another four years of spinning our wheels? Or are you perhaps in the pay of someone on the list?
It's time to wake up and smell the coffee. THIS ISN'T A POPULARITY CONTEST. We're not choosing a NAME; we're choosing the LEADERSHIP OF OUR CITY.
Investigate closely every single one of the names you have proposed, and you'll find out how (--unlike a real prize candidate who will hopefully step forward, and who will be necessary to do the job properly--) shallow your list is for the role of leader of this city: no thought-through ideas (a.k.a. "vision"), no leadership potential or concept of a citizen-centered development of the third or fourth largest city in North America. Not one.
Your kind of choice is reminiscent of how we got Miller last time. Let me remind you. The media gave the city three choices, based upon each only having a NAME: an ineffectual former council member that turned out to have nothing to offer, a former president of the Liberal party that kept telling the media that he didn't want to be elected, and an incumbent who had done little to nothing for the past three years. The media finally "hijacked" that election down to one choice, and told us who to vote for in its headlines.
Like you're trying to do in your little exercise. Get real! When the time comes to register the candidates, there will be a couple of dozen names on the list you never even heard of. I for one want to know who the best person for the job is.
Don't you?
NO? OK, then YOU vote for a NAME, Skimpy. And while you're at it, why don't you tell us all which NAME should be included on OUR list of possibilities? During the election, Skimpy, be sure to ignore all but three or four of any other declared candidates so we don't get sidetracked away from your choices when you're telling us who to consider. This is a nice head start.

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