ridiculousness reversed!
"Licence plate case to be reviewed"
Stung by uproar, province is reconsidering decision to deny retired church minister her vanity plate
so... i was not the only one up in arms about this story from yesterday...
the government, faced with public and political upset, has tucked its tail between its legs and run off! transportation minister jim bradley is now asking the "personalized licence plate review committee" to reconsider its ruling.
conservative transportation critis john o'toole (how fitting - a conservative that's a tool[e]) got it right when he said that this incident is "taking bureaucratic nit-picking to the extreme."
however, while i don't support the revoking of the plates, i DO think it's a bad idea for the government to do a complete 180 whenever the public gets in a stir. if you can get a decision reversed just by making a fuss, how can any government decision ever mean anything? it's equivalent to bad parenting... you tell your kid "no more candy!" but then the kid starts to cry and you cave and give them the candy saying "just this once..." but it's never just once... kids (and by association the pubilc) aren't as dumb as you think they are - now they've learned a valuable trick to getting their way each and every time...
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