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Originally Posted by Ducay
This isn't our fight to join, especially so not while property taxes are what they are. I know the funding got defeated, but man, Jyoti has already made a few of my friends regret their decision to vote for her given she's gone ever further off the deep end than advertised.
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Let's not even pretend that $100k is going to make a difference in our property taxes, it's not a point worth making and anyone wanting to argue in favour of this would shoot that point down in a heartbeat. Based on 2016 private dwelling numbers, it works out to 21 cents per private dwelling in Calgary, and I'm all but certain that the numbers have increased since 2016 so as to reduce that amount.
The point is that this isn't the City of Calgary's fight in the first place. Taxpayer money, no matter how miniscule, should be invested toward improving the city and the lives of its citizens, or not collected in the first place. Fighting Quebec in a battle that they will almost certainly win -- using the
Notwithstanding Clause if push comes to shove -- is misuse of public funds, period. The City has been entrusted with using tax money for Calgary and its citizens in a responsible way and using that money to fight such a battle is not even close to being aligned with that purpose.