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Originally Posted by 1991 Canadian
These are net operating budget numbers pulled from each municipalities budget PDF documents for 2019:
Calgary: $4.09 billion / 1.36 million people: $3007 per capita
Edmonton: $2.98 billion / 981k people: $3037 per capita
Red Deer: $369.8 million / 103k people: $3590 per capita
Lethbridge: $405 million / 99k people: $4090 per capita
Wood Buffalo (Fort McMurray): $418 million / 72k people: $5805 per capita
Ottawa: $3.6 billion / 995k people: $3618 per capita
Montreal: $5.7 billion / 1.78 million people: $3202 per capita
Toronto: $13.47 billion / 2.93 million people: $4597 per capita
Vancouver: $1.53 billion / 675k people people: $2266 per capita
Based on the rhetoric I’ve heard on this issue, I fully expected Calgary to be at the top of the city spending list on a per capita basis. I'm surprised I haven't seen many city comparison numbers in the news articles I've read about the budget/tax issue. Seems like an important piece of the story to me.
I'm unlikely to get an answer here, but does anyone have an idea why Vancouver's operating budget is so low? It goes against everything I know about the "Bring Cash" province.
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Just a guess, but I wonder if the weather there impacts their costs: they don’t have costs for snow plowing, and my guess is that the lack of extreme temperatures keeps the streets in better shape (less pothole repairs).