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In brief, the Paper was a shambles.
For a document as important as this, a roadmap for a nation no less, it is appalling to see how the government fumbled right from the get go to the eventual vote itself – with the most critical PAP MP, Inderjit Singh, effectively abstaining from the vote when he was absent from the House during the poll. [There were, according to news reports, 8 MPs who were absent during the vote.]
Others ridiculed the lack of rigour in the paper itself. This was shown up by the two amendments made to the Paper: one to remove the wordings “population policy”, and the other to remove the word “nursing” from the footnotes which had included nursing as a “low-skilled” job. It caused unhappiness among nurses here, and prompted the President of the Singapore Nursing Association to write a letter to the Deputy Prime Minister and the Health Minister. Various economists also slammed the Paper for its lack of references and substantiation on various claims and points made.
- http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/pap-must-small-things-first-022245555.html
For a document as important as this, a roadmap for a nation no less, it is appalling to see how the government fumbled right from the get go to the eventual vote itself – with the most critical PAP MP, Inderjit Singh, effectively abstaining from the vote when he was absent from the House during the poll. [There were, according to news reports, 8 MPs who were absent during the vote.]
Others ridiculed the lack of rigour in the paper itself. This was shown up by the two amendments made to the Paper: one to remove the wordings “population policy”, and the other to remove the word “nursing” from the footnotes which had included nursing as a “low-skilled” job. It caused unhappiness among nurses here, and prompted the President of the Singapore Nursing Association to write a letter to the Deputy Prime Minister and the Health Minister. Various economists also slammed the Paper for its lack of references and substantiation on various claims and points made.
- http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/pap-must-small-things-first-022245555.html
