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Written by Gordon MacKinnon

Category: interests

Published: 03 November 2014

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In the event that I am elected to council, as I will be working with seven other council members and the mayor, I do not expect to drive the agenda, and as I cannot predict who I would be working with I find it difficult to make any policy promises.

 

I can promise to work hard, listen, and continue to learn. If there is one thing that I have learned thus far in the campaign, it is that there are very few easy answers and that many simple ideas have unintended consequences. I have a curiosity  to understand why things are as they are, and in my effort to better understand I develop analogous comparisons to systems and concepts that I am familiar with. This often provides me with different approaches to problems that could lead to better outcomes. I  think through secondary and tertiary consequences. I try and anticipate the future we are investing in to make more strategic choices. I am prepared to raise difficult questions.

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