A letter from Mathew Ingram
Welcome to the Public Policy Wiki, a joint venture between the Globe and Mail and the Dominion Institute.
So much of what happens in Canada when it comes to developing public policy occurs behind closed doors, inside committee rooms and legislative offices.We'd like to try and open that process up a little, and this is our attempt to do that.
This is an experiment, and one that we hope will provide a useful forum for concerned citizens of all kinds to contribute their thoughts and ideas on some of the issues mentioned here. Eventually, we'd like to expand it to become an ongoing project to tap what we like to call the "Two Million Minds" of our readers and other concerned citizens, a kind of open, crowd-powered forum that we could use to collect the thoughts and opinions of the Canadian public on the important issues that confront us.
As always, if you have any questions, thoughts or comments, please feel free to email me.
Mathew Ingram
communities editor, The Globe and Mail