Comment 77049

By CouldaWouldaShoulda (anonymous) | Posted May 17, 2012 at 08:37:42 in reply to Comment 77045

Absatively.

And I am no apologist for councillors. (Frankly, given what I've seen over the past year, we'd be better of replacing half of them...and yes, I have specific ones in mind.)

For the record, I've never proclaimed that 'councillors are only as good as the citizens who elect them.' And your followup statement there I most enthusiastically agree with and support.

As for "Today's various methods of engagement may not be ideal and there are opportunities to improve the process of engagement, but that doesn't mean we can afford to stop participating in the ongoing process of current policy making to go all meta," well, one of the criticisms I've received is that I -seemingly to them- are dismissing any and all efforts at currently making thing better. Being no dumb-bunny, I realize fully how this criticism manifests itself, and I also see how this is the 'twin sons of different mothers' equivalent of how councillors often respond to 'critiques', but again: I am not wishing away anyone's efforts at community/civic activism. I am proposing a different tack, one that in the main, is disimissed as being 'naïve' and other such descriptives, but one that nevertheless is something I'm willing to be ostracized for...no matter how some take my stridency personally.

This city's future is at stake. I'm not willing to leave it up to counting on 'saviour candidates' arriving on the scene. Instead, I'd prefer to go 'all in' with the element of govenance that has not yet been utilized in ways that I envision.

There are some wonderful community minds in Hamilton. I would include Ryan, Adrian and Jason amongst them, as well as the mainstays who frequent these threads. But until we fully acknowledge the true meaning of 'public pressure', until we go back to your words, Ryan, and have taken our rightful place at the table along with Council, City Staff and developlers, we will be squandering more than we are apparently capable of grasping.

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