BAD GOVERNANCE OR BUDDY SYSTEM GOVERNANCE?

Yesterday's Waterloo Region Record carried this story titled "Board mum on street check findings". The sub-title is "No comments when told police stop black people at troubling rate". What a non-surprise that our allegedly independent, non partisan civilian Police Services Board had no questions and no comments. I mean let's be real here. These seven "civilians" are anything but. They are white, affluent and priveleged. They were appointed by Regional Council precisely because they've proven under fire that they won't rock the boat. That is they won't demand accountability, transparency or anything else that might possibly require guts, courage or independence. We've got lots of local citizens with those characteristics but rest assurred our local and regional politicians, bureaucrats and assorted hangers on want nothing to do with them. The equivalent is seen up here in Woolwich Township where the real environmental activists are shut out of two Township committees which however embraced former councillor Pat McLean. Pat has long made a virtue of her environmental ignorance. She doesn't know the difference between a DNAPL and a horse apple. She fits in like a glove.