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Originally Posted by smoothpops
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I know this is a loaded question, but can anyone objectively explain Manning's role in all this?
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“There appears to be a partnership—either tacit or not—between the Manning Centre, the homebuilders and a number of different political candidates,” says Mount Royal political scientist Duane Bratt
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My understanding is (aka could be full of incorrect information):
- He was born in Edmonton, started the reform party and became leader of the opposition
- He retired from politics and created the Manning Centre for Building Democracy (conservative think-tank/ conservative politician training location)
- He seems to have taken an large interest in Calgary municipal politics and for some reason.
- Hes seems to be the figure head for our Calgary housing developers. Why a conservative think-tank is spear heading the cause of municipal housing developers is beyond me, political right and pushing for permits to build new communities are unrelated. This isn't a liberal or conservative issue, in any sense.
From my perspective, the only reason he would be representing our housing developers is because he has been bought off by them. Same goes for any provincial party representatives who utter a word in this conflict, stay out, unless they had skin in the game as
this does not fall into provincial political party lines.
When I see a person on this forum, who is/related to a very active participate of a provincial political party, slamming our mayor for his position on this topic, I just assume corruption is occurring deep within that party. If your tied closely to any provincial party, in anyway, I don't know why you would speak up to this.
That is my uneducated point of view on this issue, could someone by chance clear the facts up? Does manning have nothing to do with this debate? Am I the typical uneducated public that needs to be set straight? I feel clueless on this, and I don't like that feeling.
EDIT: I just found this, and it explains a lot of my questions:
http://manningcentre.ca/municipal