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Trouble in paradise?

Someone got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.....who's lying?

What appeared to be a united chorus of city politicians demanding the province help the city deal with a property tax hike for businesses has struck a sour note.

However, Coun. Joe Magliocca, who along with fellow councillors George Chahal, Shane Keating and Gian-Carlo Carra were listed along with Nenshi as authors, suggested on Saturday he didn’t agree with the thrust of the opinion piece — particularly the suggestion the province was to blame.

“It came as a surprise to me when I read the article ‘We need to tackle the tax shift together’ by Mayor Nenshi that it also included my name. I want to be clear that I never agreed to be part of Mayor Nenshi’s article and I certainly disagree with its content,” he wrote in a Facebook post hours after the piece was published.

“I regret the comments made by Mayor Nenshi towards our provincial Minister of Municipal Affairs, who was correct in saying that ‘The City needs to look after its own house.’”

Magliocca, who didn’t immediately return a call for comment on Saturday, said he’s asked Nenshi to remove his name from the op-ed.

In a statement provided to Postmedia on Saturday, Nenshi said Magliocca had read the piece before publication and agreed to lend his name to it.

“Councillor Magliocca has every right to disagree or to change his mind. I’m happy to remove his name, but since I was standing right next to him when he read it and agreed to let his name stand, I’m a little bit confused by his statement.”

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...rty-tax-plight