The National Capital Commission
Two of the most secretive organizations in Canada's capital city,
Ottawa, performed their versions of the dance of the seven veils
before unappreciative audiences in September and October.
Billed as its first annual meeting to be open to the public,
the National Capital Commission staged its meeting at the Palais
des Congres in Hull.
Despite its location, the event drew an attendance of some 200
people, many of them anxious to express their views on contentious
decisions made by the Commission, all of whose members are government
appointees.
Press reports of the meeting were uniformly critical. As the
unelected commission members sat in silence, the chairman and
staff officials undertook the task of answering questions posed
by members of the public.
"Patronising" was how one reporter described the responses.
"Paternalistic" was another description of the entire
presentation.
As an exercise in public relations, the meeting served to reveal
an attitude reminiscent of "l'etat c'est moi."
Pity.
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