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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
If this council could demonstrate an ability to set priorities, and manage a budget I wouldn't have a problem with this bridge.
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Yet as has been brought up MANY times - this bridge is not being built with city money. No matter what they do with this bridge, it has NO effect on the budget, so why is this particular issue the one that incites such controversy?
I'll say it again - whether the city can manage a budget or not has nothing to do with this bridge. This is not city money being spent, it's provincial money that has been specifically made available for infrastructure ONLY. So if they don't build this bridge, that money doesn't go back in the budget, it doesn't reduce our civic debt, it doesn't get spent somewhere else, it just goes back to the province who then undoubtedly gives it away to another municipality.
That's my big problem with the criticism of this bridge, and you've brought it up again. Instead of complaining about actual problems with the budget, we get complaints about something not even in the budget that are falsely connected back to that budget. Why not actually bring something RELEVANT up if that's the problem?