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Thursday, May 3
I spent a bit of time in Canmore this past weekend, and I picked up the local paper. Along with a cat story and an affordable housing story was the quick snippit about how happy their mayor and council were with the recent provincial budget. At no point was it suggested that the budget was "one of the most significant broken promises ever perpetrated on Albertans."
If you are following the fight between Mayor Bronconnier and Premier Stelmach, I'm sure you're familiar with Bronco assertion that applying strings to municipal funding was somehow the most heinous thing the provincial government has ever done (and our government has done some wild things in its time, from essentially counterfeiting money to sterilizing people). Bull - it isn't what Bronco may have wanted, but Bronco's approval or disapproval shouldn't be what constitutes the sniff test on a budget.
What really shocks me in all this is the failure to ask Bronco the most basic question about his complaint - if it is a question of priorities, why does affordable housing rank below his wishes? I agree that a west extension to the C-Train is a good idea, but is it really a better idea than helping put roofs over people's heads?
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posted by Duncan @ 9:58 PM© 2003-2010 Duncan Wojtaszek
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1 Comments:
At 11:11 AM,
Allie
said…
Calgary's plan to extend the C-Train has been paced out over the next 13 years since I lived in Calgary years and years ago.
Mayor Bronconnier, obviously already competing for Dr. Taft's job, is just using this as a red herring to make it appear that he is a worthy oponent of the Premier's and a champion for Calgary... ignoring of course all the real issues that actually affect Calgarians as not as important as is own liberal leadership campaigning.
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