Ministerial responsibility
Sir,—The recent contract work scheme fiasco has heightened the whole nature of Ministerial responsibility. However, Ministerial responsibility should be viewed in a wider light still. It involves a government’s neglect of a country’s external security in the manner of A.N.Z.U.S.; it involves a government’s inability to fight the rampant scourge of crime; it involves the lax acceptance of a deregulated economy Where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Ministerial responsibility is at the heart of government by the people fpr the people. When public money, security and social welfare are abused by a government and its departments then Ministerial responsibility stands as a sham. On such a basis one is led to ask the inevitable question: What motivates such a Minister to remain in politics? Is it pride that comes with political power or the increasingly opulent nature of his or her salary? — Yours, etc.,
G. SMITH. January 27, 1987.
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