{"id":8457,"date":"2017-07-20T08:48:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T12:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8457"},"modified":"2017-07-20T08:48:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T12:48:34","slug":"a-letter-to-mathieu-fleury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8457","title":{"rendered":"A letter to Mathieu Fleury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. Fleury:<\/p>\n<p>I was listening this morning to a soundbite on the morning news, your Clintonesque explanation of the difference between meetings and consultations.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D8MweStpEbs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t do this.<\/p>\n<p>I chose to vote for you back in 2010, as I decided that despite being a newcomer, you can be trusted. My trust did not appear misplaced; I voted for you again in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But now you are giving me reason to pause. Suddenly, you are not a leader but a follower of the NIMBY crowd. A leader would consider the good of the whole of the community and, if necessary, would not be afraid to contradict a minority, no matter how loud their protests.<\/p>\n<p>I do not wish to belittle the concern of those who live near the proposed Salvation Army location. But, well, isn&#8217;t it true that no matter where we put it, the facility will anger some? And it&#8217;s not like the Concorde Motel, the Salvation Army thrift store, or the pawn shop across the street inspire high confidence in the neighborhood. For all I know, a well-designed, well-managed, well-supervised and well-policed Salvation Army facility may actually improve the appeal of the area.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, please keep in mind that there are more voters in our ward than these NIMBY folks. Including voters who are familiar with the Salvation Army&#8217;s current location, and know what an improvement a well-designed facility at a more suitable location might represent. I am not claiming that such voters are a &#8220;great, silent majority&#8221;. Maybe the Montreal Road location is not ideal. But then, I appeal to you again and act as a leader: instead of lecturing on the difference between two synonyms for an encounter, tell us what you propose as an improved solution.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8457' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. Fleury: I was listening this morning to a soundbite on the morning news, your Clintonesque explanation of the difference between meetings and consultations. Please don&#8217;t do this. I chose to vote for you back in 2010, as I decided that despite being a newcomer, you can be trusted. My trust did not appear <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8457' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-ottawa","category-44-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8459,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions\/8459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}