How many does it take to phrase a question?
Times Colonist Letters
October 18, 2014
Re: “Amalgamation not on Colwood ballot,” Oct. 16.
Why does Colwood require a working party of more than three volunteers to participate in a working group to compose a nonbinding question on amalgamation?
It’s akin to the question of how many people it takes to change a lightbulb.
Surely, only one experienced person is all that is needed and then that question can be agreed or fine-tuned by the working party. Imagine the chaos and time taken to reach agreement if several people each wrote different questions.
As a market researcher, I also find it difficult to understand why the same nonbinding question is not being asked by all municipalities. How can a conclusion be reached if each municipality is asking a differently worded question?
Ian Eastwood
Saanich
Times Colonist Letters
October 18, 2014
Re: “Amalgamation not on Colwood ballot,” Oct. 16.
Why does Colwood require a working party of more than three volunteers to participate in a working group to compose a nonbinding question on amalgamation?
It’s akin to the question of how many people it takes to change a lightbulb.
Surely, only one experienced person is all that is needed and then that question can be agreed or fine-tuned by the working party. Imagine the chaos and time taken to reach agreement if several people each wrote different questions.
As a market researcher, I also find it difficult to understand why the same nonbinding question is not being asked by all municipalities. How can a conclusion be reached if each municipality is asking a differently worded question?
Ian Eastwood
Saanich