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Originally Posted by corporatejay
1. I view Nenshi as a fiscal conservative. Taxes have gone up but that's because business taxes and value of commercial property in the downtown core has gone down. That has to be made up somewhere. Calgary still has relatively low property taxes compared to any major city.
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A key tenet of fiscal conservatism is low taxes and small government with limited public spending. Under Nenshi, Calgarians have seen the largest tax increases of any municipality in Canada.
Calgary's 'low' property tax rates have been offset by having separate business taxes, provincial top-ups, and utility rates. As a measure of spending, Calgary is near the top of Canadian cities.