Question: Why the haste to push this White Paper through Parliament without any public consultation?
Yahoo! News Singapore, 8 Feb 2013
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng spoke Thursday in support of the government’s population white paper, lauding it for not being “rash”, but “honest with the people”.
“If we search our hearts and conscience, we will know that this is not a rash government,” he said. “It is a government that is honest with the people. For decades, the same government shared the country’s problems openly with the people. This way, it hopes to rally the people to find solutions to the difficulties we faced together.” Full story