Fascinating how Canadians recognize the power that lobby groups like O&G, developers, etc have in shaping government policy but when community groups manage to shape policy, there's 0 recognition of the hard work that went into it. It's just "Wow! Politician made the right choice on their own! Yay!"
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We do more with less. That's worthy of praise!
But I also care deeply about crediting experts because political apathy is rife and people need to be shown examples of how activism WORKS, dammit!
This isn't just annoying. It impacts democracy because you're denying the role of activism, advocacy and citizen power!