Thanks for the comments.
Re: thread search, yes was an auto Google search. I don't automatically reply to all comments that I find, but wanted to address the McIver donation issue, as his list was the first to be released with my name on it.
Re: airport tunnel, I'm in favour of the added functionality created by the airport tunnel. I'm not enthralled by the Chabot/Stevenson proposal that will see us spend $20 million in interest over 7 years to do it, when we have over $800 million in reserve funds. I prefer to pay cash over credit. I realize $20 million is only a small fraction of the total budget, but when we're $60 million over-budget for next year already...
re: knowing your stuff, no it's not too much to ask that a candidate be engaged with the long term plans for the neighbourhood. I don't claim to know it all, but I generally know where to find it. Really, that kind of knowledge forms a significant part of my campaign. As I mentioned earlier, there's a lot of small issues to clean up in the ward, and being involved in it at the ground level makes a huge difference when sorting through the nuance of a solution.
re: differences in candidates...I"ll post a blog post about it in the morning on my site, rather than take over this site. It's hard to differentiate even for me, because no one else really communicates outside of the usual platitudes on their websites. I just hear about the differences at the doors, when people say: "this guy said this point..." It's hard to hold anyone accountable to what they are saying. There was a few differences though that came up tonight at one of the ward forums where you could start to see some real lines of definition forming.
Thanks again.
Brent.
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