PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong was bombarded with more than 5,000 questions during his online chat with netizens on the People's Action Party's Facebook page on Wednesday night.
During the one-hour webchat, most of them raised hot-button issues that have been cropping up on different platforms and at political rallies in the past week. These include the influx of foreign talent, cost of living and and rising housing and transport costs.
The Facebook chat got underway at 8pm but hundreds of questions and comments, with some pledging support for the PAP and expressing words of encouragement for the Prime Minister, had started pouring in much earlier.
Within four minutes after PM started the first thread going, more than 200 questions and comments had flooded the page.
Responding to a question from Visakan Veerasamy who had asked it it was morally justified for public transport companies to rake in hundreds of millions in profits from commuters and if some of this could be passed on to the poor to pay for their bus fares, Mr Lee replied: 'We put billions of dollars in govt money to help subsidise the tunnels, trains and bus interchanges. I think that's morally justified, dont u think so?'
He also sought to assuage concerns over the influx of foreign talent. 'We are not planning to make a 6+ million population. Not trying to get there. Dont worry,' replied the PM to a netizen.
During the one-hour webchat, most of them raised hot-button issues that have been cropping up on different platforms and at political rallies in the past week. These include the influx of foreign talent, cost of living and and rising housing and transport costs.
The Facebook chat got underway at 8pm but hundreds of questions and comments, with some pledging support for the PAP and expressing words of encouragement for the Prime Minister, had started pouring in much earlier.
Within four minutes after PM started the first thread going, more than 200 questions and comments had flooded the page.
Responding to a question from Visakan Veerasamy who had asked it it was morally justified for public transport companies to rake in hundreds of millions in profits from commuters and if some of this could be passed on to the poor to pay for their bus fares, Mr Lee replied: 'We put billions of dollars in govt money to help subsidise the tunnels, trains and bus interchanges. I think that's morally justified, dont u think so?'
