Politicians are adept at tactics used to delay any decision making that might cost them a vote. Besides studies they also use the, “We should have a meeting.” line or the, “You should start a letter writing campaign,” to slow down the process.
I’ll give you a classic example which was almost laughable in how it played out I will relay the following story. One time a few years back there was a meeting at Beaver Bank Kinsac school with all the stakeholders about getting funding to repave the school parking lot. The MP, the MLA, the councillor and the school board member were all in attendance at the meeting.
At the end of it all one of the elected politicians suggested to the crowd that they should start a letter writing campaign. My thoughts were to whom. All the elected area politicans were at the meeting. They could get together without the help of letter from the crowd and come up with a solution was my thought. The letter writing campaign is just another name for “having a study.”
It would be a breath of fresh air if a group of politicians took a bold step and made a decision to actually help their constituents without having a study, having another meeting or waiting to get some letters. You make a great point about useless studies.
As an example of how taxpayers’ money can be wasted on studies I have reproduced a press release from February 5, 2001 about a real live study that might just fall into the type of study to which you refer in your article.
“FOR BROADCAST USE
A group of researchers is studying the health of Gaelic culture in Nova Scotia, and it wants to hear from people active in the Gaelic community.
Consultant Mike Kennedy and his research team are preparing an inventory of Gaelic events, resources and organizations.
Tourism and Culture Minister Rodney MacDonald, whose department commissioned the study, says their findings will help Nova Scotia develop strategies to strengthen the presence of Gaelic language and cultural expression.
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Contact: Peter Guildford
Tourism and Culture
902-424-4179 902-424-4179
E-mail: guildfpf@gov.ns.ca
You hit the nail on the head. Everytime there is an issue in HRM, I see that the method of moving forward is a study. I am baffled at the fact that we have elected leaders who are too afraid to make a decesion.We elected them to lead our communites forward and for the greater good of all.
Instead, they want to find what the study says and then are more worried about losing their seat so they do not make a decesion and nothing happens with the problem, or a new study is requested because they wasted so much damn time on doing something in the first place.
Gary
Politicians are adept at tactics used to delay any decision making that might cost them a vote. Besides studies they also use the, “We should have a meeting.” line or the, “You should start a letter writing campaign,” to slow down the process.
I’ll give you a classic example which was almost laughable in how it played out I will relay the following story. One time a few years back there was a meeting at Beaver Bank Kinsac school with all the stakeholders about getting funding to repave the school parking lot. The MP, the MLA, the councillor and the school board member were all in attendance at the meeting.
At the end of it all one of the elected politicians suggested to the crowd that they should start a letter writing campaign. My thoughts were to whom. All the elected area politicans were at the meeting. They could get together without the help of letter from the crowd and come up with a solution was my thought. The letter writing campaign is just another name for “having a study.”
It would be a breath of fresh air if a group of politicians took a bold step and made a decision to actually help their constituents without having a study, having another meeting or waiting to get some letters. You make a great point about useless studies.
As an example of how taxpayers’ money can be wasted on studies I have reproduced a press release from February 5, 2001 about a real live study that might just fall into the type of study to which you refer in your article.
“FOR BROADCAST USE
A group of researchers is studying the health of Gaelic culture in Nova Scotia, and it wants to hear from people active in the Gaelic community.
Consultant Mike Kennedy and his research team are preparing an inventory of Gaelic events, resources and organizations.
Tourism and Culture Minister Rodney MacDonald, whose department commissioned the study, says their findings will help Nova Scotia develop strategies to strengthen the presence of Gaelic language and cultural expression.
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Contact: Peter Guildford
Tourism and Culture
902-424-4179 902-424-4179
E-mail: guildfpf@gov.ns.ca
kjd February 5, 2001 1:45 p.m.”
Gary,
You hit the nail on the head. Everytime there is an issue in HRM, I see that the method of moving forward is a study. I am baffled at the fact that we have elected leaders who are too afraid to make a decesion.We elected them to lead our communites forward and for the greater good of all.
Instead, they want to find what the study says and then are more worried about losing their seat so they do not make a decesion and nothing happens with the problem, or a new study is requested because they wasted so much damn time on doing something in the first place.