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Sunday, September 9, 2012

National Conversation - a new name to an old practice

We seem to be having conversation with the people after every general election. I have lost how many times, we had this type of conversation. It is a big effort and usually ends up with the same strategy. We do have nice sounding slogans, such as the "shared values" and the "Swiss standard of living" generated in previous exercises.

http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC120909-0000043/Key-challenge-of-Spore-conversation-is-managing-expectations--PM-Lee

Why does Singapore need to have this type of exercise? I do not see other countries putting in similar efforts. Well, here is the answer!

In other countries, there are active debates in Parliament. They hold their national conversations all the time in their legislature. Why can't Singapore follow the same approach, and have a more active Parliament?



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