Here’s an opportunity to weigh in on the current provincial election – inspired by this comment from cityflaneur:
Someone please help! Where is the thoughtful policy and platform development? I’d like to vote for an alternative to the current government, but I feel like all they’ve been doing in the run up to the election is making unwise promises to the electorate.
I’m beginning to think that all sound evidence-based policy-planning supporters have left politics altogether and only the people who are in it for personal gain are left …
While we don’t expect PT commenters to be non-partisan, try to focus on policy, not personality. And if comments become diatribes, particularly on one other, we’ll use the Delete button without compunction.
Planning takes long range thinking and wide range thinking, and it involves deferral of gratification for long term benefit. That’s pretty much the opposite of what now elects politicians in the age of hot-button issue politics.