Why, because where you have centralized control, you have corruption. You have waste. You have decisions that make no sense at he local level. As humans we are very local, and can only understand what is around us. You cannot understand, or even things that you have never seen. At best, this building is a line item on a budget for someone in Victoria. That bureaucrat sitting in Victoria has their own set of agendas, and will promote those, and not maintain things they have never seen. It is human nature.
The solution, is the localize the control so that someone in Merritt gets to decide how to spend the tax dollars. Everyone in Merritt knows who that person is, and if the dollars are being poorly spent, that person will hear about it in the grocery store, Tim Hortons, Canadian Tire, etc.
When the person making the decisions in Victoria this is what the people of Merritt can expect.
I believe in decentralization.
Why, because where you have centralized control, you have corruption. You have waste. You have decisions that make no sense at he local level. As humans we are very local, and can only understand what is around us. You cannot understand, or even things that you have never seen. At best, this building is a line item on a budget for someone in Victoria. That bureaucrat sitting in Victoria has their own set of agendas, and will promote those, and not maintain things they have never seen. It is human nature.
The solution, is the localize the control so that someone in Merritt gets to decide how to spend the tax dollars. Everyone in Merritt knows who that person is, and if the dollars are being poorly spent, that person will hear about it in the grocery store, Tim Hortons, Canadian Tire, etc.
When the person making the decisions in Victoria this is what the people of Merritt can expect.