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I fully agree with Fotze - this bridge is going to be the first shot of a long fight fired from those who genuinely love this town towards those who are just here to make a quick buck and then split.
OF COURSE a bunch of people who are not interested in Calgary in the long run are opposed to a gift to ourselves as well as future generations, born of the prosperity of our times.
Screw that.
I am pretty sick of the selfish, transient attitude of the majority of Calgary's citizens. This is one hill that I would be prepared to fight on because I am of the exact opposite mentality.
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That's hardly a fair assessment of the situation. Many born-and-bred Calgarians are the most fiscally-conservative people in the entire country and view any spending above the absolute bare minimum to be wasteful.
Many transplanted Calgary residents, like myself, have seen the greatness other cities have achieved in terms of architecture and livability and want to see more of that in our adopted home. More often than not, we're met with violent opposition from the Ric McIvers of the world who are content living in a totally bland and boring city that lacks any kind of character so long as it keeps their taxes low (or I should say
lower, since Albertans already enjoy the lowest taxes in Canada and are among the least taxed people in any Western democracy).