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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
It's a weird point you make. Even Enmax isn't allowed to cut you off in the winter
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Sorry but in the post you quoted you said that the City should not operate as a private company would in this 'private' venture. You used this as a reason as to why, even though the City was willing to give up to 20,000 per residence and a decades worth of notice, it wasn't enough. Despite a private company would have - in your words - given little notice and no compensation. Enmax is owned by the City, should it also not operate as a private company would? Why or why not?
Let's say if someone, really through no fault of their own, bought a house with a high mortgage before the bubble burst while they had a good job. During the downturn they lost their job, and now can't quite pay for mortgage and power, should the City (through Enmax) just give them free electricity if it meant keeping their home?
And no company is allowed to cut you off in the winter, so not exactly sure what you're getting at there.
In my opinion, the City should have separate business and subsidy programs. This was business, these residents were not on any special program or subsidize, as far as I'm aware. They need to make the right business decisions, and really based on what you've said, they've gone incredibly further than any private business would. For those who now face hard times because of the business decision, there are programs offered to them by the City that may help - including the subsidized housing programs. But if you start saying that these 50 residences who refuse to move Midfield should just have the city bend overbackwards to make sure they get to keep their homes and have a nice cushy place to live...why not the other thousands of people who have been forced out of their houses because of the downturn?