Apparently this has caused a bit of buzz on social media over the weekend.
Couple of blogs on the topic.
From CP's own
charper
Booting the CHBA is wrong
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Booting the CHBA (Canadian Home Builder’s Association – Calgary Chapter) from advisory bodies and task forces was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
This unilateral action has put at risk much more than the relationship between the development industry and the City of Calgary, which I might add is already shaky. It sends the message that to disagree with the Mayor is to risk removal from participation in key initiatives and be sent to the penalty box.
How can any participant or representative organization participating in a City initiative or task force speak honestly to its members after the removal of the CHBA?
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And from my pain in the....errr, I mean my husband.
Calgary’s Petulant Purple Peacock is pouting.
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Last week Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi took great umbrage when Alberta Minister of Municipal Affairs Doug Griffiths implied that with an election looming that Nenshi would be prone to puffing up like a peacock on issues. It appears that Griffiths’ statement was quite prophetic as Mayor Nenshi is indeed puffed up and posturing at the Calgary Home Builders Association in what can really only be considered a temper tantrum on the part of the Mayor.
Naheed Nenshi took Calgary’s mayoral throne in the 2010 municipal elections thanks to a vote-split by the center-right and an impressive galvanization of the normally electorally apathetic hipster population of Calgary. Nenshi has since enjoyed something of a love-in from national left-leaning media outlets such as the CBC and Toronto Star since then but the realities of his role as the mayor of a major city are beginning to cut through the limelight for Nenshi and they are clearly getting on his nerves.
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