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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
I'm not sure if I went back far enough in reading this thread to see if it was initially mentioned that the UCP eliminated a tonne of funding (memory says around 7M) and fired a lot of the employees maintaining the park (or offered them the option to relocated to the far NW part of Alberta's left armpit, making leaving their choice).
They then brought in the fees to make up the shortfall, that they caused.
They then put the income from the fees into general revenue, and increased the bureaucracy around park maintenance. Can anyone verify if private companies were hired to do any previously public jobs in the park?
And the people living closer than Calgary to Kananaskis don't appreciate having to suddenly pay for what used to be the backyard, and the place looking run down because there are a fraction of the former employees looking after the place.
Defending the UCP on the topic of Kananaskis is a non-starter for me.
Should we talk about the provincial parks that they sold to private concern? Anyone remember that?
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I don’t think anyone was defending the UCP here or the use of the money from the fee or the current parks budget.
I was defending the fee for use of provincial parks.