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Originally Posted by Sluggo
Knowing the history of politics in this Province, the odds are slim that the PC's will be around for the next flood of this magnitude. Its just pandering to the 95% of the Provence who don't want to subsidize the 5% of people living near flood planes some of which are Canmore timeshares or mansions along the Elbow.
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It is complete pandering except you are flushing me and my wife, two professionals down the toilet in the family home we purchased in 2009.
Not one person mention the word flood when we moved here. No one. How on earth was I to know the risk? Even my 93 yr old neighbor who has lived in Sunnyside for 60 years scofed when the evacuation order went out.
Like I said this is half baked at best. They don't even know how many homes are affected and how much it will cost. I am pretty sure when these guys get advice from the lawyers the'll realize there is a whole lot of negligence on their part and are risking huge lawsuits from many people who can afford it or are lawyers themselves. I mean the city and province were told over the last 10 years repeatedly and they turned the blind eye.
I know many out there think so what, break a few eggs to make a better omlette. A few upper middle class people go broke so our taxes or insurance don't go up. I just ask that you pause on that for a minute. My wife and I are high tax payers, parents, and never caused an expense for our social services. We in fact contribute and donate to charity in large amounts. If we get screwed by this, our house and our neighbors now become burdons on the system. I know this sounds dramatic, but if our house is worthless and we have no insurance, you better believe we are walking away.
And why? Because the city greddily took our property tax, starved our infastructure, and screwed us when the going got tough? It honestly would be one of the most revolting and dispicable things they could do. So that is why I hold hope they won't touch these ideas with a ten foot pole.
We are smarter than this. Reloacate the obvious, but Build the fricking berms and sewers needed so 100yr old communities aren't dystroyed. In the end it will be the right thing and the much cheaper option for everyone.