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Responses to our online consultation question 7 (Page 5)
This is what we have heard in response to our online consultation question 7: "Do you have suggestions on how the Government of Canada could improve how it consults with Canadians?"
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Make the process of consultation development and analysis open.
- David H. Mason
Des questions longues comme celle-ci peuvent être difficile à répondre, en diminuer et faire des question plus guidé peut être appréciable.
- Guillaume Campagna
More things like this with broader announcements and inclusion. Is this consultation available to those who aren't web enabled? There are whole communities that are disenfranchised by web only access. Engagement is a more challenging issue.
- Max Merrett
Read More...Improve the questions. If questions one and four were meant to have different meaning, it is not apparent. Also, there are many questions that aren't being asked here that I think could have relevance. Such as, what formats would you like the data to be in, what should the government do to promote apps, etc.
If there isn't a "share this survey on twitter and facebook" link on the last page, then you're seriously missing huge opportunities for free promotion.
- Noah
I don't think open invitations for public feedback should be the only way to gathser feedback because then you are only getting feedback from the most vocal and engaged citizens. I think you create regular feedback channels (focus groups, surveys) from randomly selected citizens who represent Canada's demographics.
- KellyL
