In Light of the Seven

The Father

The Mother - Dany?

The Maiden

The Crone - Melisandre

The Warrior

The Smith

The Stranger

NewWayToGovern

Cabinet retreats are usually held twice a year, and they are theoretically designed to allow ministers to engage in a broader discussion of issues and strategy beyond any one particular file. 

Twice a year, a few folk selected by the PM and his team from a selective and partisan group retreat from the world together and chat about the interconnectivity of issues and broader partisan/government strategy.

Let that think in for a second.

There's a better way to do this; a hub-and-spoke model of civic engagement that better suits our current circumstances than a model of governance that predates the industrial revolution, much less the post-industrial world.

When the Just Society isn't.

But just as we should not convict someone of a crime merely because we suspect that he did something wrong, neither should we make the opposite mistake: of supposing that because the evidence did not support a criminal conviction, nothing happened and nobody did anything wrong.

and:

“Now I’m not saying these doctors did anything wrong,” he said.

“What I am saying is that there is an inequity in the fee code structure that has created this unfairness.”

While at the same time:

In Canada’s largest province, there are 28 active states of emergency as well as 10 more that were declared since 2014 but have been lifted.

When justice fails - what then?

A Wake-Up call for Responsible Politicians

The fact that no procedures are in place for disciplining wayward MPPs is a wake-up call.

Somewhere, there are some busy backroom people annoyed that they have to spend time on stuff like this.  It's a total distraction from the really important stuff, like winning.  So long as MPPs keep their heads down, say the right things and raise the right funds, why should part folk have to worry about all this other stuff?  They's already got some P&Ps, and there are laws, - it's someone else's job to be the enforcers.

They aren't responsible for that.  

"I told you so" isn't my thing.  I just hope that some of these folk will maybe, hopefully recognize that when I offer warnings, they aren't threats - they're predictions.  

Hopefully, the people in power won't try to push away the lessons here, assuming this is a problem that will go away.  Hopefully they will internalize, and learn, and take responsibility.

It's an example leaders need to set, because whatever the example, that's what the people will follow.