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fundamental freedoms? Why must the
today? Is it not the Administration's
bill which strikes at their
Bill be passed
Own case
the Control
of
that many of the sections contained in
Publications Consolidation Ordinance are to be repealed because
they have become redundant? What possible harm can come to the
Administration or this Council or to anyone else for the matter
if there were indeed an adjournment? Or is it feared that once
there is an adjournment and the public be given more time to
study the bill, then it will become more difficult for it to
passed?
be
If
the answer to the last question is in the
affirmative, then I must warn the Administration that this is a
grossly improper way of effecting the passage of a bill, as no
responsible government should push a
legislature, which is not a fully
bill through
elected one, merely because
it has the transient support of the majority of the members of
the legislature when the people outside it are SO very much
against it.
is totally contrary
For
this
Administration's
a vowed
consultation or consensus.
philosophy
of
to
this
government
by
If this bill were to become law today, can the
Administration expect to have the respect of the people it
governs? And indeed can the non-government members of this
Council expect that its
by the engagement of an
collective image can ever be enhanced
experienced public
relations expert?