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Originally Posted by mykalberta
I hope N^2 sticks to his guns on this. Police budget in this city has become the Canada health care debate. You cant reduce its budget because peoples lives will be at risk. - oh wont somebody think of the children.
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Exactly. It would be irresponsible for us to look at a 332,000,000 budget line item and see if there are any savings there. Whether we're fiscal conservatives or not, we can't make the people with guns who keep us safe budget responsibly.
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**332 million dollar figure from City budget summary, here:
http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/...ns_budgets.pdf
page 47 of the document, 58 of the pdf file