Tuesday, July 18, 2006

A booming market in echo chambers

As if we needed more examples of the Cons utterly refusing to listen to anybody with an even remotely different viewpoint from their own, two more glaring examples surfaced yesterday.

First, Diane Finley is supposedly in the middle of consultations to figure out how to try to get at least a couple of child-care spaces out of the funding which according to the Cons' campaign promises should create 125,000. But those consultations have completely excluded the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada.

Second, as pointed out by timethief, Chuck Strahl is holding meetings to determine how to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board. And in keeping with the "no dissenting views" policy, nobody from the CWB itself or any other group which would tend to support the CWB was granted any opportunity to join the discussion.

Of course, there is a downside to making decisions before tolerating any opposing view, as those who do disagree with the Cons will be all the more motivated to make sure they don't have the power to exclude anybody in the future. And considering how few Canadians have anything to gain from the Cons' stubbornness on both of these files, it's not hard to anticipate the bubbles being popped with a vengeance before too long.

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