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Brock Vodden: About Democracy

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I look at your blog once in a while and could not avoid
responding to the latest article on North Huron.

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“Council currently acts as if they were elected to make our
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That is also true. They are
elected to make decisions. They make dozens and dozens of
decisions for the municipality. These decisions vary from very
minor administrative items (adopting a routine report) to very
broad issues such as a new policy by-law or accepting a contract
for a service.

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not listen to the mass majority”. This is where I suggest to
you that you need to learn more about “fundamental
principles/ideals of

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