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Originally Posted by Shazam
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...
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The Shledon Chumir is not a full service hospital. And yes, it's provincially funded. I guess you missed the part where the bridge is too. It's not coming out of property taxes.
Riverwalk for sure and maybe Enmax powerplant and 4th street underpass (not the easiest info to find quickly) are being funded by a Community Revitalization Levy . The East Village is paying for East Village improvements. I'd love if the suburbs had to pay for themselves. Yes there are examples of improvements downtown, but the net flow of money is outwards. Do you dispute that?
Surbanites don't use the airport? The magical surplus money somehow gets attributed to the inner city? Neither of those red herrings are relevant to the fact that the inner city is subsidizing the periphery.