[OMG!WTF!]

The real reason you guys should be upset about this has just been totally missed. It's obvious a group of elected officials need to be held to a higher standard than that which is applied to private landlords.

When you need to get elected you're the good cop, the guy who fights for every man and who looks after the little guy. Then you get elected and your priority is keeping your job which means not raising taxes which means the 6 million bucks it would have taken to buy out these residents ten years ago looks a lot better in your bank than in the people's pockets you promised when you were trying to get elected.

Some vomit inducing words from Nenshi...



Even worse from Carra...



So you go back and forth with this good cop bad cop garbage and it winds up costing ten years and a way larger amount of money than it would have in the first place.

Carra said it best. To paraphrase, If the city is going to make lots of money of this development we should take care of these people so no one has to take a hit in order for the rest of the city to benefit.

You just can't really argue with that can you?

I also think the law regarding mobile homes should be changed to reflect the fact that mobile homes are not actually mobile. In a lot of cases it's actually cheaper and easier to chop a house of a foundation and move it. When I worked for a mobile home park in Calgary the owner was trying his best to sell all the homes his company owned in the park just for the simple fact that his infrastructure was also failing and he knew he'd be punting all the tenants at some point. So you've got these savy owner with insider information selling trailers to admittedly less sophisticated people. There is more there to recon with than the law reflects.