Most people carry on in their lives as if nothings happened wasting $5 here or $10 there and the cumulative sum is much greater than a $1,000 purchase that they spend way more time thinking about.
This is similar. I bet that 99% of the population has no clue how City of Calgary spends their tax dollars but I'm sure in the last 5-10 years, they've spent a lot more than $550 million as part of their budget. And all of a sudden now, there is a whole uproar about this one time item that if just split up within the budget and spread across multiple years, most people wouldn't even raise an eyebrow.
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