William Shakespeare wrote,
"All the world is a stage…" but, of course,
he wasn't a politician. Are we to passively watch events unfold
at the city council table and wring our hands because it's all
so unfair? Tracey Duguay states she has become a passive
observer and maybe that's a good thing for a journalist.
However, I am not interested in another farcical portrayal of
local politics. I've had it up to my eyebrows with smart,
ironical romps through the political landscape a la Rick
Mercer.
Duguay's experience with the Harris
government woke her to the fact the world can be a cold, hard
place. We have only ourselves, the working class, to blame
since we have held this passive, victim stance for so
long.
I hope Duguay looks at is what councillors do
as measured against what they say they believe in. For
instance, someone may claim to be striving for a "green" city
while at the same time voting to allow big box stores to be
built in one end of town creating a traffic nightmare. The
ensuing expansion of the urban area creates more pollution,
more road maintenance and so on. Will she explore who sells out
ideals to side with the business elites when that is the
convenient thing to do?
Politics is not a game or a play.
Paul Chislett
Sudbury