Direct Democracy Mattawa French school

#7. I still become upset at the lack of any effective manner of constraining the seeming excess of the local French school system in establishing a new French High school in tiny Mattawa. I am told that it is the idealistic and perhaps scheming deputy director within the provincial board of education that encourages the local French board to proceed in this divisive fashion. The provincial government is providing a whopping $8,000,000 for this purpose. There are no new students - just a new location. What it will do, however, is to cause the current high school to become much depleted in number of students - so much so, that it will probably have to discontinue. The current situation where both language groups co-exist in one building will halt. The divide will be compounded, and English-speaking students would then have to travel to North Bay to get their schooling.
Would a vote by the local citizens, if such were available, have permitted this result? It seems from here, likely not. Regardless, we shall never truly know. Something is being foisted upon the citizens by a small group from outside the area about which the local citizens have no counter. Too bad! If a system of Direct Democracy were in place in Ontario, as in other jurisdictions, such consequential result would be more satisfactorily concluded. A local referendum would clearly determine what the majority of citizens do want, at any rate, and maybe that could help the town to stay to-gether.
Read my book - YOU Can Control Your Government, now at local bookstores, to understand better just how this modern improvement of determining contentious government issues actually works. Such system called Direct Democracy is being used more and more throughout the educated world these days. We should be using it here also.