Leadership through polling
The City of Ottawa is doing an online poll to determine how to prioritize services (etc). You can take part in the poll by hitting the City of Ottawa webpage. I’m not a big fan of this approach: any idiot can spam the thing with responses and skew the results dramatically. A better approach would see a town hall meetings, or a mechanism to verify the identity of the person taking the poll.
It would be nice to have some reliable way to prevent ballot-stuffing of these polls, but on the other hand, I really don’t want the city to associate my identity with my feedback. I know of at least one high-level city employee willing to resort to intimidation to silence bothersome questions and dissenting opinions.