JulieM
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excellent questions we should be thinking about...15 Minute Cities- Questions We Need to Be Asking of Our Government Officials
If you or a group can attend a city council meeting, or a regional council meeting and you actually have a chance to speak to the group these might be some of the questions you might want to ask. So many questions, so many unanswered questions which we as citizens of this region need to have answered honestly and acutely. As Vincent Gircys has said a cover letter needs to be read to the council. It needs to be in plain English with a punch in the face dose of reality. He went on to suggest the following questions which we can definitely add to.
1.Where is the money coming from to influence how we are going to completely change the way we live?
2. How does this improve those values we care about most, those that make us human...... putting a strong emphasis on family, friendships, trust v.s. surveillance etc.
3.What does the surveillance in these districts look like? Will every aspect of our lives be monitored and why? Who gave you our representatives the right to lock us up and trace, track and control us? Aren’t you all elected to serve us and our needs?
5.What other control mechanisms will be put in place and why?
6.What data harvesting of our personal information will be done?
7. Will there be all the services we need daily for us and our families in our so called districts e.g. grocery stores, hospitals, doctors specialists, arenas, churches, gas stations, malls dentists senior citizen homes etc.?
8. What if you own a cottage? What if your child is on a travelling hockey team? What about sports tournaments? What if your family or aging parents live in B.C. or Nova Scotia etc? Are we going to lose our freedom and God given right to travel?
9. Why are we turning our world as we know it upside down at tremendous expense both constitutionally and financially at this time?
10. Will we be in a permanent winter lockdown in Canada in the winter trying to ride our bikes through the snow?
11. If we are to transition to electric vehicles, the cost benefit analysis is yet to be proven.
12. Who decided that 15 minute cities are what we want for our community? Did we vote on this? What NGO's were involved in this decision? Are these groups local groups or international groups who have no right to make these decisions for us and our community? Who are you working for the citizens of this community who elected you to represent us or these foreign entities the Non Governmental Organizations's?
Hi Sharon,Climate Emergency? - According to the Region of Waterloo Climate Action Milestone Timeline a climate emergency declaration was made in 2019. Was there a real climate emergency in our Region at that time? Where is the evidence of such an emergency? Did the Region declare this because of direction from the provincial and federal governments? Is this so called climate emergency still in effect and if so why?