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Contributor: codc01
Date: 2003-03-19 06:58:12
In a perfect world i would entirely agree with you, and accountability is always important. We don't live in a perfect world, sometimes the citizens of a country do not have enough indepth knowledge to have a correct and objective opinion...
Even here in this discussion group, most people here know their facts and are knowledgeable in their discussions, but is it true that if you ask the same questions to someone on the street they will know all the facts to have an objective (or partially objective) opinion?
Its a fine line being always representative of the citizens and making upopular decisions which are actually for the good of the citizens, even if these citizens disagree with the government... (For example, all the government budget cuts in the '90's nobody wanted them, but now practically no one in their right mind would accept the Canadian government going back into debt and deficit, and the majority now accepts that it was a necessary evil)...
Where is this fine line? I don't know the answer... Maybe a referendum system like in Switzerland would be the best??
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