Well, it seems our fine city council had been
getting itself into a pickle lately!
Bars and hotels hate them, because that are
being driven out of business by the smoking bylaw.
Taxi companies hate them, for a weird "who
can pick up who where bylaw", a useless taxi driver course, and
draconian cab inspections.
Big chain stores are upset about store hours.
So are small stores and not just over the store hours
bylaw.
Mall and convention centers are not happy
either.
Wow!
Can I suggest they persecute video stores,
confectionaries, motels, and landlords next?
And we want to bring people to Sudbury and
encourage business. Obviously, council will shortly bring us
more call centres to diversify!
Perhaps it is not council's fault. Perhaps it
is merely an unsupervised, entrenched, overpaid, uncaring
bureaucracy with too much power, and way too little
imagination! But we are going to have an ad campaign for
Sudbury.
What precisely do we have that is a "positive
thing" to advertise? The friendly rocks?
But, I think it is a good idea for council to
drive all businesses in town either out of business or out of
town.
Why? It's the most brilliant thing that any
local government has done in years.
Why? Simple. Drive everybody out of town. The
place collapses. Sudbury then qualifies for disaster relief and
with all the pesky citizens gone, well
then, the "bureaucrats" and council can do
whatever they like, with no more complaints.
Kudos!
A suggestion for a new Sudbury 'motto'.
Instead of 'open for business', how about 'We're vacant'.
Pierre M. Laberge
, Sudbury