Forum Guideline: Keep it Local
From:
Mark Alexander
Date:
Jul 17 21:20 UTC
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Dan wrote
"The focus of this forum is local issues. Please ensure that your posts
are directly relevant to Canterbury."
As New Zealand is so small there are a lot on national issues that are also
local Canterbury issues.
Some issues, such as the availability and abuse of alcohol, is of national
significance and Canterbury's issues are New Zealand's issues.
I can accept and understand that we may not want this forum used to debate
Auckland's roading problems - thank God we haven't got their problems (yet) -
but surely issues like road safety and planning (for example) that have
national, regional and local significance we should debate the national issues
as well as our local issues because our local solutions may well arises out of
the national solutions.
I hope that our moderators allow us some sensible/reasonable flexibility to be
able to discuss issues of national significance without being restricted to
simply the Canterbury aspects of each issue.
I am (legally) a one-eyed cantabrian but I hope I am able to consider, discuss
and debate issues that have national and regional significance without being
restricted just the Canterbury part of the issue.
For example I went to an excellent IPENZ public seminar of wind power this
week. If we were to debate this issue on this forum it would be a very short
debate if we were to be restricted to Canterbury issues pertaining to wind
power.
Mark Alexander
RD 5 Chch
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