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Originally Posted by SebC
I would agree, somewhat, that is is pork. However, it's pork for an area of the city that's get absolutely shafted in terms of value-per-tax-dollar-paid at all levels of government.
Downtown Calgary subsidizes suburban sprawl, lost its hospital while the deep South gets a new one, and gets money sucked out through equalization.
At a city level, it's provincial money that had to be spent on something within the constraints of the earmark or would have been lost, so I'm damn glad the city decided to take it.
At the provincial level (and it's the province who's paying for it, not the city), it's kind of a silly earmark, but at least it's going to Calgary.
Overall though $25M is small trivial compared to the suburban development subsidies ($1000M). Where is the outrage over that? I'd gladly lose the bridge, if the subsidies went with it.
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Ah, the usual jumble of SebC nonsense.
Let's see:
- Bring up a hospital that was blown up ages ago. Forget about the Shumir Centre. Also conveniently forget about the fact that hospitals are provincially funded and managed. Strawman it anyhow because god damn, he can.
- Compare one small project versus an imaginary large one. Forget about things like the Talisman Centre reno, the west LRT, 16th Ave reno, Enmax powerplant, new 4th street underpass, Riverfront Ave reno, Peace bridge, Memorial Drive improvements... Blah blah blah, whatever...
- Forget about the $900million in surplus money that the city has lying around. Perhaps we all got shafted on taxes.
- Oh yeah, the farking airport tunnel. There's $400 million right there. When urban Calgary isn't good enough, take one's ass to Bali on planes fuelled by unicorn laughter. Oh wait...