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Originally Posted by frinkprof
4. There's potentially much more drama and disruption to come, likely at the hands of the provincial government. Without getting into just how incompetent, manipulative, vindictive and corrupt the provincial government has proven to be, I would fully expect more moving of the goalposts. This includes further delays to funding commitments, scrapping of funding commitments altogether, making changes to the composition of City Council (including number of councillor positions) ahead of the municipal election, and uploading the management and planning of major transit infrastructure projects to the provincial government (basically going back to the drawing board with the Green Line under the Province, putting Nose Creek alignment back on the board, at grade operation in the downtown or downtown scrapped altogether). For a case study, see the Ford government in Ontario in the handling of the City of Toronto and TTC projects.
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From early 2020.
Not surprising in the least.
No one had a crystal ball on which circumstances would factor in at a macro-level (COVID, inflation, etc.), but make no mistake. Any UCP provincial government was going to move the goalposts and otherwise hold up this project until they could put a bullet in it and put forward a redesign and hail themselves as saviours.
Incompetent, manipulative, vindictive, corrupt. Only truer now.