30 replies to this topic

[rjag]

It would be an interesting topic to discuss when people thought Victoria last had an effective council....

[LJ]

It would be an interesting topic to discuss when people thought Victoria last had an effective council....

I don't know how successful it would be, I'm not sure there is any one old enough to remember that can still participate in a forum discussion.

[Baro]

Is oak bay a nuclear free zone?  Can we build a power plant there?

[lanforod]

Is oak bay a nuclear free zone?  Can we build a power plant there?

 

Not sure about Victoria (just weapons or power plants too?) or Oak Bay, but Saanich has a bylaw in place regarding nuclear weapons. No mention of power plants: http://www.saanich.c...cleardisarm.pdf

Edited by lanforod, 16 December 2013 - 09:37 AM.

[rjag]

I can sleep safer in my bed knowing that Frank Leonard is walking the ramparts protecting me from this....

 

"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us."

[jonny]

What a joke...as NParker put it, this is just more social engineering from the CoV. City Council must have too much time on their hands.

[LJ]

^ Well I guess they think that if they look busy everybody will think they are working hard, and if they get their name mentioned in the paper that's just gravy.

 

These are the sorts of people who walk around job sites with clipboards and a pen, producing nothing but in their mind they are very important to the operation.

[Nparker]

...and if they get their name mentioned in the paper that's just gravy.

I think this is one of the major problems when it comes to our civic elections. Due to a more-or-less disinterested electorate, a group of often incompetent candidates keeps getting re-elected simply because people recognize their names on the ballot. I really wish we had term limits so that at least every 6 years or so we'd be able to sweep away some of the deadwood (cough, Madoff - 20 years on Council!!!) and perhaps see some fresh blood elected. I know that doesn't always work (cough Gudgeon, cough Isitt), but it would at least offer some hope for change.

[jklymak]

^ You may very well disagree with Councilor Madoff, but I don't think its fair to call her "deadwood".  She seems to me to work hard and be very effective.

[Bernard]

When Victoria was incorporated in 1862 one of the powers it had was to regulate firearms, what it could not do was land zoning

[VicHockeyFan]

^ You may very well disagree with Councilor Madoff, but I don't think its fair to call her "deadwood".  She seems to me to work hard and be very effective.

 

I agree.