LETTER

How to find Gatineau’s “public” notices?  

 

Library? With the library restrictions that are an insult to anyone who refuses to accept the "total surveillance society”, it is now necessary to travel to an internet cafe in Ottawa simply to read Gatineau's  "public" notices -- if you are not wealthy enough to have the latest tablet gizmo.  Local bylaws, grants and public jobs, it seems, are only for the wealthy - the underclass of the poor are there to fund the Mayor’s secretive administration. "Where can I go to use the Internet in Aylmer?"  “I dunno”, was what I was told at the Bulletin.

 

Cafes? Another cafe has opened, an establishment that has worked overtime and spent a fortune to look and be just like the other hundred Middle Class Wi-Fi cafes in town.  I asked one of the owners, how they see being a photocopy of every other cafe in Aylmer rather than providing the services that customers want as being the route to commercial success and wealth?  His reply?  "We really don't want people going in there to use computers."  Say, if you don't want customers, Matey, why not lock the front doors and that way you'll be sure not to be troubled by any pesky customers getting in your building at all and bothering your staff?

 

Today, it seems that "pandering" to the customers is considered to be bad policy by most of the commercial elite. 

 

Robert L Thompsett

Aylmer