Troster’s Wrong About Consultations: THE VOTER
Is this remark by Somerset Councillor Ariel Troster about the process used recently with the sprung shelters or is there some other shelter-development process of which I’m unaware? Maybe she’s talking about the process related to the Sally Ann’s new facility in Vanier.
Staff members are not engaged with me, part of “the community,” on this or any other topic. With whom are they engaged? Could it be members of the shelter community? I’m sure they’re getting lots of unbiased and non-self-serving information there.
If staff is so gosh-darn amazing, why do we need any community consultations at all? That’s almost a rhetorical question but let me count the ways …
The Voter is a respected community activist and long-time Bulldog commenter who prefers to keep her identity private.
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Remember those public participation sessions that were held with lots of notice to the public to meet with the ward councillor and staff at a designated location on a specific date at a specific time … when Bob Chiarelli was mayor? What happened to those? Anybody?
I find that typically I can trust Somerset Councillor Ariel Troster to have fact based conversations with the public. That statement stood out to me when I read it, and now I wonder what staff are doing that gives her the impression they are “incredibly engaged” with the community. The voter and Donna do have it correct though, the current engagement looks good on paper, but if you are engaged, you can see the smoke and mirrors staff put up as the deal is done before the public is involved.
waba, perhaps staff and Troster are thinking ‘incredible’ means ‘not credible’, akin to how ‘ineligible’ means ‘not eligible’?