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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
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.
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This is pretty well my take on it as well.
If you have a problem with a policy that Quebec has instituted then tell the Premier to do something about it.
Its not within her Jurisdiction or the range of her duties or responsibilities.
It would be like me canvassing my neighbours to pay for a community project and then using the money to buy a billboard to denounce Chinese Domestic policy.
Sure, I could do it, but thats not what that money was for, its entirely outside of the realm of which I have any control and the end result is going to be ignored (at best) anyways.
Gondek can take her personal vacation days and picket outside the Quebec legislature on her own time if she feels that strongly about it, but dont use the pulpit granted to her by the citizens of Calgary. Thats not her job.