[Byrns]

Originally Posted by fotze

Who is the candidate to most likely lower taxes? Is that Mcivor?

The communist lady.

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"People Before Profit"

- Reduction of all public transit fares by 50% for one year. The following year, elimination of all public transit fares. Public transit, as a necessity for people to travel to work, shop, etc. should be a right. - Immediate return to free transit parking at C-Train stations.

- Creation of Low-income housing. Homelessness is not a crime. The lack of affordable housing is. This should be the focus of capital projects in Calgary, not un-needed and expensive bridges or tunnels.

- New residential construction must include a percentage set aside for subsidized housing.

- Portion of the City Budget set aside for creation of new low-mortgage housing construction program.

- Greater funding, transparency, and public input into the running of the Calgary Housing Company.

- Greater funding for education in Calgary. Specifically the Calgary Board of Education and our post-secondary institutions.

- Elimination of all public school fees and fees for lunch programs. Education, as a duty and right, should not penalize those with less.

- More investment and initiatives in order to increase the number of teachers in the CBE. 1 teacher for 35 students should not be considered acceptable.

- More investment and initiatives in order to increase the number of nurses and doctors in Calgary. Lack of staff is a major obstacle to improving health care delivery in Calgary.

- Greater funding for Calgary's food banks. The problem of access to food for those in poverty will not be solved by perennial food drives, but by placing the question of food banks in an important and permanent position in the City Budget.

- All projects and jobs to be staffed by local labour pool. Any temporary foreign workers hired to be paid same union wages and benefits, with same protections.

- More positive approach to public/civic trade unions.

- End to union busting and undercutting, especially via outsourcing. End to privatization.

- Childcare space. Increase access and spaces.

- Greater leadership from City Hall in the fight against racism, homophobia, prejudice, and bigotry.

- Reduction of property taxes on all homeowners and increase those of corporations that do business in Calgary. Specifically, ending special property tax exemptions for corporations. As of 2008 and earlier, Calgary continues to host more corporate headquarters than any other city in the west. If corporations want to do business in Calgary, they should be obligated to pay property taxes.

- Rent control and more rights for renters.

- Work with the provincial government to improve and extend renters' rights within the Residential Tenancies Act.

- Schedule of maximum and minimum rents to be established.

- Pay cut as Mayor. The role of Mayor is no more important than the people who take away the trash, fight fires, pack our groceries, stock our shelves, or pump our gas. All these roles together, and more, make Calgary what it is. With this view in mind a pay reduction of 50% is necessary, because you cannot represent people unless you understand their conditions of their lives. These funds can be better allocated to serve the Calgary Food Bank, as food should be a basic right.

These are the kinds of measures that Calgarians need to make our city happier, healthier, and more productive.