Ok . . . I was invited this evening to attend the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission forum on Social condition in Saint John.
This issue concerns the issue of the poor.
Well, as I told the Chairman Gordon Porter last week if he would cancel the meeting stated for UNBSJ???
My main point is it was way out from the poor neighborhoods in Saint John.
The poor are too weak to walk in the cold for a distance of four to five miles.
This is totally NUTS!!!!!!!!
We gathered together and left the City at Sunset.
Dan Weston was the driver and he was all primed up for the meeting.
I was asked not to go into a tirade as like last week.
I promised them that I would be the blogger and not the activist.
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I might add that it would be very difficult not to voice my concerns to the Commission.
We had a difficult time finding the building at UNBSJ!
But once we were told were to go? Away we went to voice our concerns with the other poor people in the building.
Together? We can truly make a difference!!!! < Who said that line anyway? >
We walked passed a door where a few people were sitting down chatting.
Dan walked right by but I noticed in the corner of my eye, Susan Butterfield.
Dan couldn’t believe he was at the right place?
There must be some kind of mistake?
Sorry, it was no mistake and you should have seen the look of the members of the Commission once they saw us walking in?
Susan met us at the door and told us there was no meeting because only one individual showed up?
Well . . . well . . . well . . . surprise surprise surprise . . . No poor people around?
What did I tell the Chairman Gordon Porter last week???
But they would not listen to common sense!!!!
These bureaucrats are paid big money to make the trip to Saint John but nobody showed up!!!!
Being Charles the blogger, I walked right in and took a picture of the empty hall and the members of the Commission sitting down.!!!
You would expect Gordon Porter knowing that we came from the Capital would have greeted us at the door?
Of course not! Minutes later, he decided to go home with his fancy jacket and hat!
I might add that he dressed the part of a bureaucrat very nicely.
I believe the Commission left because there was an angry Blogger in the area and he was taking pictures away with his camera!!!
Now? I wanted to know who’s the individual who showed up for the meeting?
I was told that it was confidential information.
The Commission decided to pack it in at 7:45pm and left the building.
This woman was the individual and she showed up because she was curious and wanted to listen to what they had to say?
This guy Randall Hatfield from the Human Development Council was all primed up to give a presentation and was disappointed by the turned out.
He was very happy to share his presenation with us? I guess that he can say that we made his day by showing up????...lol...It was a total waste!!!
We were all ready to leave the building until a couple showed up.
The guy asked - Is this the place were the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission are supposed to meet????
I told the guy - Everyone left!!!!
He replied - They said there would be a meeting between 7:00pm and 9:00pm! Aren’t they paid by the taxpayers of this Province?????
You could tell by the look on his face that he was very disappointed and upset.
Someone told the guy that he can send an email to the commission concerning his problem.
I told the guy that I was a blogger and he could email me his concerns and I will blogged it!
I guess his issue is Private schools in this Province.
Stay tuned!!!
We all gathered our stuff and headed by to the Capital.
So? What does they mean? Did the Commission do this on purpose?
By holding a meeting so far from the population of the poor in different Cities around this Province shows the attitude of the Commission toward the poor New Brunswickers of this Province.
They cannot speak on behalf of the poor because they refuse to listen to their concerns by holding meetings far away from the poor neighborhoods.
I believe this gives much more power to poor organizations such as FAPO because when they hold a meeting?
They properly advertised the event and more than 100 people shows up.
The Commission must listen to groups such as this one but they won’t acknowledge that the poor are humans!
Since I am very good in predictions such as this one? I’m going to predict there will be many protests in front of the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission building during the spring and summers months!!!
Hey? What else can we do????
I show you readers the evidence-
I hereby rest my humble case!!!
3 comments:
Actually Charles, this event was a huge success! If the event was designed to bury discussion about social condition, it achieved its goals. The powers that be do not want to reach out to the poor - they don't want the poor to know about their rights. If they did, the LAST place on earth they would have held an event like that was miles away from the urban core where the majority of the poor in Saint John live. How far away is the University from downtown? How do you get there? How do you get back late at night? How much does it cost by bus or taxi? On the 13th of the month, nobody on welfare has anything left from their welfare cheque. This whole event was doomed from the start. The NB Human Rights Commission is so far away from the real people it aims to serve that it really needs to re-evaluate its outreach / education section, that is, if it still has one. By the looks of it, there is no public education being done by these people.
What a shame! What a waste of taxpayer's money. How much did it cost to put that event on? Travel, expenses, room rental, car rental, planning, advertising (which was so screwed up by the way that an ad appeared in the Telegraph Journal on Saturday, February 10 announcing the event in Saint John for February 8!). Who is in control of the agenda over at the HRC? That's what I'd like to know.
can't you get Abel your uncle or nephew whatever the relation, to investigate this charles
I agree with the previous poster. From their perspective it must have been a huge success.
Any idiot knows that to reach the right population you have to have the right location. You have to figure out the who, what, when, where, why, and how.
The HRC sounds like a bunch of academics testing their research on poor people.
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