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Letters | Chance for Hong Kong lawmakers to shine, with Lantau vision scrutiny
- If pan-democratic antics had in the past prevented constructive development of public policy, it is now time for the pro-establishment camp to step up on checks and balances
- A good place to start would be the chief executive’s pet project, a mammoth undertaking calling for rigorous investigation
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The lawmaking process may be smoother for the government in a Legislative Council chamber lacking 19 pan-democratic members, but establishment members and their supporters now enjoy far greater freedom to criticise government policy, with the obligation to close ranks against the pan-democrats having been conveniently removed.
And such criticism should be reasoned and effective, rather than the juvenile antics of the pan-democrats, with their focus on slogans at the expense of constructive development of public policy.
Unwelcome though this may be for the government, for the rest of us it would be a welcome relief.
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The recent announcement that the proposed East Kowloon monorail link would be abandoned after HK$92 million and 11 years spent studying the project, hints at government incompetence and a squandering of public resources.
The lurking suspicion that the cancellation has been prompted by a desire to focus resources on the chief executive’s pet project, Lantau Tomorrow Vision, is a cause for alarm.
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