Government performs a wide range of absolutely essential services, and many public servants work very hard. However, that alone does not an excellent organization make. At least in the back-office side of things — if not always the front service counters everyone in the public interacts with — I see people putting in long hours and […]
As a follow-up to my earlier post about government and protesters living in harmony, I thought I’d share some of the comments that I saw at work today. The following are taken verbatim, straight from an official document. “Protests are part of everyday life, especially in Toronto. Important to consider that citizens have the right […]
There is an old saying that the camel is a horse designed by committee. Committees and “stakeholder engagement” are de rigeur in government. They are a large part of the reason why government is widely recognized as a slow, lumbering beast. Unfortunately, in a democratically-elected, representative system of government, I’m not sure that it could […]
With all the recent buzz on the Internet and elsewhere about Google’s impending pull-out from China, much mention has been made of the censored content that Google.cn presents to users in China. Control of information is fundamental to totalitarian control of people. For that reason, Google.cn could not present, for example, images of the 1989 […]
Every summit is a success. Some are more successful than others. That, apparently, is the official line on every major summit that happens — G8, G20, Copenhagen, and others. I heard that at a meeting earlier this week. No matter how much, or how little, gets accomplished at each of these summits, they are officially […]
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