Need for spring garbage cleanups a testament to the problem of people behaving badly

the citizens of Thompson elected more truly independent-thinking candidates who aren’t married to aligning themselves with any particular side, because right now, the number of opinions on council is generally two – for and against.

One of the arguments

Maybe the low turnout of people with opinions on how many councillors there should be isn’t an expression of apathy but of pragmatism. Experience has shown quite often that this council – and others before it –is going to do what the majority of its members think is right, regardless of what the most vocal taxpayers think. If that is the case, does it really matter how many of them there are?

Like many problems, Thompson’s litter issue can’t be solved by enforcement. Bylaw inspectors can’t be everywhere all at once to issue fines to everyone who drops a piece of garbage on the ground. Even if they could, the damage is already done by that point. The real key is education. Modelling respectful behaviour by putting trash where it belongs and not

Critics of the proposed reduction say that it will prevent “new blood” from being elected and, theoretically, reduce the diversity of opinions, but that would only be true if