Representatives should speak for community

I would like to express my view on “community representatives” of any community in the North.

According to the Merriam Websters dictionary, a representative is defined as follows:

1: Serving to represent

2: Standing or acting for another, especially through delegated authority of, based on, or constituting a government in which the many are represented by persons chosen from among them, usually by election.

I think that representatives should not be allowed to promote their own personal views in annual general meetings of any kind, because they have the same opportunity and right to express their opinions by voting as any other voter.

The reason why I am writing this letter is because it is not fair to non-representatives to have someone who is supposedly representing the community express their own view and defeat majority opinions.

I could express something as a mayor and not have my community support me on my view, thus making people outside of my community believe that my community believes as I do.

I should be able to inform people on how my community feels, even if I do not agree with my community.

So I say to community representatives, stop making decisions based on your own views and go to the polls as I do.

Johnny Oovaut
Quaqtaq