Bill Spornitz on 22 Dec 2000 13:23:22 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Privatisation of Government Services |
As well, the government of the Province of Ontario has been on a track of *neo-liberal* privatisation for several years - wouldn't the *Walkerton Tragedy* (as it's been called) be a result of the weakening of the role of government in these critical social welfare issues? It seems to me, in this case, if the government were playing a stronger role it would be in its place to negate the effects of such *enlightened self interest*. Bill > > From: Tom Gray@MITEL on 12/21/2000 08:54 AM >> For those concerned with the ongoing privatisation of government >>services and >> its effect on the democratic control of such services, the following link >> is to a story on the current controversy in Canada on the water supply of >> the village > >Ok, I'll bite... what does this story have to do with privatization? It >seems as though the problem here was massive irresponsibility on the part of >a particular manager, something hardly peculiar to either public or private >institutions. I mean, it's hardly in the financial interest of a utility >company to poison their customers, right? >-js > ># distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission ># <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, ># collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets ># more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body ># archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold