Dear Editor,
Governments worldwide have found increasing consensus on what governments should manage, own and regulate and what they should not involve themselves in. Maintaining roads and eliminating potholes is generally accepted to be a definite governance function. Operating airports and harbours has been very much on the decline and mostly moved to the private sector. Utilities are still a mixed bag.
But beauty pageants are definitely not in the category where governments normally involve themselves. In the case of sports, the major global sports bodies actually disallow any involvement by government in the representation of athletes by their countries.
Should we not follow global trends and encourage our government to fix potholes and stay out of categories of activity that are regarded as unsuitable for government involvement?
Robbie Ferron
