You think it's easy to make priorities?

Municipal candidates in Capital City were asked, in a survey commissioned by the St. John's Bored of Trade,

In order of most to least important, where 1 is the most important, and 5 is the least important, please rank the follow areas in order of importance for consideration in a long-term city vision.

The five "areas" were:

- Downtown development
- Environment and sustainability, including green space planning, recycling and waste management
- Infrastructure development and revitalization, including roads and sidewalks
- Economic development, including industrial diversification
- Residential development

Nearly a third of the respondent candidates — Art Puddister, Ron Ellsworth, Dennis O'Keefe, Shannie Duff, Bernard Davis — ranked all five areas as "1".

Other funnies in the survey report are the twelve of sixteen who consider ten years or less to be "long-term", as in "long-term planning". These include Ron Ellsworth ("five to seven years") and Tom Hann ("5").

Whatever gets you through the next election.