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Steve V at F&W encourages us to exert our democratic right (and responsibility) and tell the government what we think of the Afghan mission.

The Manley panel on Canada's future role in Afghanistan is now accepting public submissions:

"The whole idea is to allow the public to submit stuff in a limited time frame," said a spokesman

I encourage everyone to "submit stuff", because this panel of nothingness is very important. I've already copied and pasted my submission, although I should have amended it, now that we get a better idea of the expenditure involved:

It is consulting experts and academics and plans trips to Afghanistan, Brussels, London, Washington and New York as part of its deliberations.

I did not know about this site put up by the government until I read about it on Steve V.'s blog, which makes me wonder if it has been deliberately kept low key.

We only have until Dec. 1, 2007 to submit, but these submissions are supposed to be reviewed by the panel set up by Harper to evaluate the mission. We know the freepers will be doing their bit to skew results, so we should be sure to have our say even if Stevie does whatever he wants to anyway. At least he can't claim no one disagrees with him.

Here is the link.