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Originally Posted by Sliver
lol. Fair Future Canmore is literally comprised and funded by rando second homeowners. It's a small place. Many people wear several hats. One Canmore councilor owns the Float tank place. One is a yoga instructor. Etc. Etc. That's not a conflict; the town's economy is too small for people to have one full-time job.
Karpat isn't paid to be on Fair Future. I have no stake in anything any developer does. We're a group of like-minded people pushing back (and winning) against a tax. I've put in a few thousand bucks. A bunch of my friends have, too. It is grassroots. When they were first posting about this on Facebook I even thought it was a scam. I had to talk to them because it was so grassroots as to seem a little po-dunk for my tastes. But, sure enough, it's just normal average Joes that make up this group. We have little meetings and we're basically a group of pissed off dorks that feel the Town and its people were pushing an unfair tax onto our group and scapegoating us for problems of their own creation.
And...we...keep...winning. Because we're right.
Are you equally annoyed that the Town is using taxpayer dollars to pay over a million in legal and administrative fees as well as hiring a PR firm to smear second homeowners and promote "unicorns" (aka old white people who are virtuous just because they've lived in Canmore longer than others)? That's what I find ridiculous. I think individuals can spend their own money on pushing back against a government who is spending others' money to penalize one group and elevate another.
But, yeah. FFC is grassroots. I know because I'm a member and I know the other members. It's as grassroots as it gets. We - as a group - pinch our pennies like crazy so we don't have to do another cash call and most of our efforts involve letter writing and correcting misinformation spread by the Town and Canmorons online and in the RMO and Herald. We aren't funded by anybody but ourselves.
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LOL it's not grassroots, it's literally funded by Dave Taylor and Three Sisters Mountain Village. Jessica Karpat, who was with QPD until it recently dissolved is now TSMV's Senior Director Strategy and Community Development. Don't be that disingenuous.
Also to be fair, you didn't win, the courts found in favour of the Town but said they had to delay a year. The program was only changed when the Province stepped in, which surprise, was due to pressure from the developers, most prominently TSMV.
Marilina's Mandate Letter to the Minister of Municipal Affairs
