To the editor:
Coun. Aldo Ruberto believes people who are uninformed are incapable of making sound decisions on important municipal issues.
He only wants informed people to make informed decisions.
The new events centre is too important and too complex a decision to be left to the general public via a plebiscite.
Of course if those uninformed residents voted for him in the last municipal election, or gave positive responses when a polling company enquired whether they supported the waterfront development, thought the city council and Administration where doing a great job running the city or if a tax increase to pay for infrastructure renewal was acceptable, then that is OK with him.
City council uses opinion polls all the time. They spend a lot of money on them.
Not one member of council has ever complained that they were elected by uninformed voters. But some, if not all, of them were.
What is the difference between an opinion poll, a municipal election and a plebiscite?
There is none.
Jon Hutt,
Thunder Bay
