Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them by Susan Delacourt

Author:Susan Delacourt [Delacourt, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Published: 2013-10-05T07:00:00+00:00

A number of participants also pointed to examples when they were a consumer of government products. Examples included taxes, labour laws and unemployment. One respondent in Montreal mentioned the health-care system as an example of consuming government services, while education—particularly post-secondary education—was a popular example in the four English groups.

The ostensible purpose of this focus-group research was to find out how citizens would be served by a new government internet “gateway” to help handle their consumer concerns. But the larger finding was a significant cultural marker for a new century: Canadians were now having trouble seeing where their lives as consumers stopped and their existence as citizens started. They were one and the same. As the report put it:

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