Public-Private Partnerships

[dewline]

Go take a look at this article:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2006/11/21/p3.html?ref=rss

Is anyone else here wondering how the survey questions were phrased to get those responses?

Comments

[jcoville.livejournal.com]

Yes and the really ugly part of this is it usually costs the taxpayer more to get a private company to do this work, despite promises of savings.

Ask people if they like spending double or more for the same services and see how they respond.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I suspect we both know the answer to this. At least half of those of us in Ottawa's civic boundaries who voted in this month's local elections for city hall do as well, if the published results at ottawa.ca are anything to go by.

[runesmith.livejournal.com]

Given that the survey was comissioned by the 'Canadian Council for Public-Private partnerships', I suspect that the questions may have been... skewed.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Of that, I've little doubt. Dancing to the lyre of them what paid you and all that.

Now what might be done about it?

[runesmith.livejournal.com]

Vote Harper out at the earliest opportunity, and pray that he doesn't get his idiotic financial plan for massive privatization (sorry... "P3"s) through before we kick his ass out.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I just wish I knew how long we have to wait for the next chance. I'm getting more than a little antsy on this point.