From the Telegram a former chief of staff in the Premier’s Office puts it as eloquently as only he could:
If public discussion, questions and debate on any issue should be dropped because “the people who have the political and corporate power to make it happen want it to happen,” then logically there should be no talk of improving search and rescue operations, fisheries mismanagement, deficiencies in health care, industrial safety, workers’ rights, robocalls or any government or corporate action.
Indeed, why would we need public opinion vehicles like letters to the editor and open-line shows?
Why indeed?
Edsel Bonnell gives the answer:
It may be a tiresome process to some, especially those who deal with it every day in government and media, but it’s the price we pay for democracy. The pragmatic alternative is unacceptable.
Amen, brother.
Amen.
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