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Originally Posted by GGG
My fear with Kenny is that he is driven by ideaology and will follow that in the face of data. His opposition to the rail car deal seems to follow those lines as he has opposed it without seeing the details of the plan.
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This 100x over. Kenney - as any politician - make judgements based on ideology all the time. It's what governing parties do to represent their constituents, science and data be damned. We have the biggest example of this just south of the border.
If decisions were actually made using metrics, numbers, and huge samples of data, then we wouldn't even need to debate human rights or LGBTQ issues, which continually dog politics. To a computer, a number is a number is a number - who cares what their sexual preferences of the sample are.
Looking forward to the day when the governing party are simply stewards of publicly-available, open-sourced data where algorithms direct the economy and decisions are reviewed by a panel of Alberta's brightest community, business and educational leaders.
As simple as this is, I wish decisions followed the "2+2=4" example and not that "what color of shirt do I like the best" one we seem to currently employ for many decisions.
Until then, the human component will generally continue to handicap democracies based on naive and self-serving ideologies that don't represent everyone.