There’s an old saying that if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
And we don’t want any ducks at the council table, particularly the ones who come up lame.
Dear councillors, we are paying you nearly $43,000 annually for you to make decisions on our behalf. That does not entail pushing things off into the future.
Several councillors have for weeks now piped up during meetings that they’d rather push a decision on an issue off until after the election Oct. 26.
“Let the next version of council handle it.”
Such moves would turn council into a collective lame duck with a month to go before the election.
To accept lame-duck status as a Chatham-Kent councillor is to sit on one’s hands and pocket close to $3,600 every month you put off making decisions.
That is terrible use of tax dollars.
Do. Your. Job.
We elected this iteration of council to make decisions from when they hit the ground running back in the late fall of 2022 right up until their final committee meetings later this year.
You make the decisions. We placed our trust in you to do just that.
We didn’t vote ourselves into office to make the decisions for you. We placed our trust, for better or worse, in you to make the tough calls.
Let’s focus on today.
Feedback from the public, when based on accurate information, can be quite valuable. But we are not the decision makers for the municipality. You are.
Oh, and for the love of God, social media is not the be all and end all of feedback. Instead, it is a cesspool of misinformation; a den of hive-mind thinking and unproven conspiracy theories.
Facebook has become a haven for coffee-shop clustering en masse; a place for folks to gather to gripe about issues.
The difference, however, between a coffee shop and Facebook is that, in Canada at least, a coffee shop lets you bring in a newspaper so you can get the truth rather than the opinion-laden misinformation that circulates on Meta’s platform.
