Isn't it telling that the media is not up in arms trying to cover the PSC interviews? I suppose the 18 will be turned inside out. On 4/30/13, Edith Adera <eadera@idrc.ca> wrote:
The assumption is that the shortlist will have the best? How will you know?
I still think both can be done, public can be present plus media could cover it sequentially as you coordinated yourselves for the Presidential debate.
Edith
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Makali has put forward my prefered approach. His approach allows for real 'public participation' by allowing representation of views by the public.
For private media, it's impractical to have 155 persons on live TV continuously for 10 or so days. May the coverage be on the final shortlist, instead.
I doubt there's need to attack the character of the Chair of PSC. Instead, submit representations to PSC about the candidates by Thursday, demand public rep. is allowed to be present at interviews and limit live broadcast to fewer candidates.
On 4/30/13, dmakali@yahoo.com <dmakali@yahoo.com> wrote:
Mayb we need to interrogate the meaning of "public participation" threshold of the constitution. Does watching or holding a recruitment process in the open space - on tv or a physical venue like kicc - constitute public participation or is it that every citizen is free and has an opportunity to be considered and to raise any matter pertinent to the recruitment and potential recruits that counts?
Methinks the latter, which has been complied with by psc advertising and inviting any1 interested to apply. That also meets the "competitive" criterion.
The next demand we should put on them is to facilitate or make it possible for any1 who wants to sit in the room to observe the process or to submit any information that may assist it to recruit the right candidates do so. That complies with the transparency requirement.
The interviews can otherwise become a farce at this stage if the template is applied across the 155 applicants. The live broadcast can come at the final stahe wen the shortlisted go before Parliament where scrutiny should be even more thorough and of a different kind - political and ideological.
David
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