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Originally Posted by GGG
He’s held operational spending below pop growth plus inflation. So on the operational side I think he has been a fiscal conservative. He implemented continuous review processes and zero based budgeting procedures to cut and contain costs. Lost in the tax increases is that the operational side has been flat.
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I don't think that's true unless you are willing to take the City's own explanation of why they count inflation as double (or more) the rest of Canada. (answer: their inflation rate is mainly higher from self-negotiated raises in salary and compensation)
If you use CPI data the spending has far outpaced pop+inflation.