By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:28:08 +0000

These are good questions, Julie. I’ll be the first to acknowledge a distinct lack of “Here’s what we need to tell our MPs and City Councillors to do” in this post, and of course I’d love to hear everyone’s ideas.

By: Julie Chamberlain

Julie Chamberlain — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:20:58 +0000

I agree that we need to call on our representatives to commit to long-term investments. I wonder why short-termism is such a strong feature of our political culture: there are inspiring examples in other parts of the world of more regular long-term thinking and policy-making, what do we need to do to shift our culture in that direction?
I was bemused to hear Mayor Ford after the meeting with McGuinty and Blair saying ‘it is about long-term investment.’ Undoubtedly we need to call our representatives on their hypocrisy, and demand consistent long-term vision and planning. But is it a matter of saying it, asking for it, and doing it over and over until it is normal? Or is there another direction we need to come at this from?

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