Re: <nettime> Privatisation of Government Services

["Julian Sanchez" <julian@laissezfaire.org>]

> From:  Tom Gray@MITEL on 12/21/2000 08:54 AM
> For those concerned with the ongoing privatisation of government services and
> its effect on the democratic control of such services, the following link
> is to a story on the current controversy in Canada on the water supply of 
> the village

Ok, I'll bite... what does this story have to do with privatization?  It
seems as though the problem here was massive irresponsibility on the part of
a particular manager, something hardly peculiar to either public or private
institutions.  I mean, it's hardly in the financial interest of a utility
company to poison their customers, right?
-js

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