On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

The essay may or may not take on a new context in the current "Facebook/Cambridge Analytica/DT-45/Brexit" Scandal environment.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2017/12/22/will-net-neutrality-save-the-internet.html

I went to Orleans Town Centre on Centrum - across the street from the Empire Theatres 6-screen place that used to be a Cineplex - last night to attend the public consultation on City Hall's latest effort to get a sane budget to run the city with for the next fiscal year. The four councillors who between them represent Orleans to City Hall and City Hall to Orleans in turn were all there: Messrs. Bellemare, Bloess, Monette and Jellett.

If anyone wasn't there who should've been, it was our new mayor. He should've had to account to those of us living and working out here for his trying to keep a word he shouldn't have given in the first place: that "zero means zero" when it comes to tax increases at City Hall. Our conversations, questions, answers and so on were all conducted in the shadow of Mr. O'Brien's unwise promise as it was.

As ever, it was definitely a useful exercise, and I got to thank Mr. Monette for his prompt reply to a question I had regarding the city's proposed Arts Initiative, something that's been in the works for several years. It was swift, it was clear, and I even halfway understood it. I thought he deserved public thanks for that particular e-mail. Also, I like his stance on public libraries as an Essential Service that ought to be open seven days a year.

A Federal-Level Postscript: Take a look at this posting by Prof. Michael Geist on Net Neutrality in Canada. It matters, believe me.