| What We Would Like to See: |
What We Do Not Want to See: |
Ensuring agreed rules, principles and
guidelines are followed, and respected
in spirit as well as in law, and in
implementation as well as in publicity |
Ignoring agreed rules, principles and
guidelines in actual implementation
(e.g. Vision 2020, GRIDS Principles,
Provincial Policy Statement, etc) |
Enhance community input from all
sectors and ensure real dialogue and
respectful debate |
Restrict community input and avoid
actual dialogue and exchange |
Open, transparent planning and
decision making; broadly circulating
information for consideration prior to
decisions |
Secrecy, closed- door planning, and
withholding of information and rushed
debate and decisions |
Ensure that all major decisions
enhance economic, environmental and
social goals which benefit the entire
community |
Focus on economic development that
benefits narrow interests, and without
adequately considering social and
environmental costs and implications |
Seek broad engagement, collaboration
and dialogue |
Give precedence to narrow interests
and ignore others |
Explore a range of desirable
alternatives and broadly circulate
complete and clear information prior to
decision to act |
Decide first, then do studies and plan |
