They want to consult “at length”
where to sell pot
in Ontario.
Will delay store openings
by half a year.
But
issue is important,
deserves stakeholder input.
Citizen involvement and
public deliberation
key to moving forward.
They do not consult on small things:
dropping Cap-and-Trade Program,
scraping Basic Income Pilot Project,
cancelling renewable energy contracts,
axing fund for school repairs,
suspending plans for overdose prevention sites,
slashing Toronto City Council by half,
repealing sex-ed curriculum, and
telling brewers
what the price of beer should be.
Campaign slogan
says it all:
For The People
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
