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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
To me it does come down to what's fair. What I think " CP's intellectual A team" is missing is the difference between the city of Calgary and any other landlord. The city does in fact have a duty to treat people fairly.
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So it's pretty obvious to me that when two hundred people with zero political influence get screwed it should matter to everyone else if not simply for the precedent it sets.
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What precedent?
What about the inverse? If the City of Calgary provided these two hundred people with even more compensation than they were legally not entitled to in order to help find them a living space, why does Joe Blow renter down the street not deserve $50,000 to help him buy his first home? Just because the City of Calgary was not his landlord? How is that fair?
If the City of Calgary fixes the infrastructure under the 'private' Mobile Home Park at the expense of several million dollars, why did it not have property tax money fix the plumbing for literally the thousands of land owners required to do it this year?
You want the City to treat these people differently to everyone else because the City happened to be their landlords. You can't talk about fairness in the same sentence.