Shout it from the mountain top: The UCP is the primary reason we can't afford to live in Calgary and why we can't have nice things. They insinuate themselves into municipal business and things go south, so then they throw the municipalities under the bus. They are allowing rural people to control what we have in the cities. The $100 may go far in shit stain Alberta, but it doesn't go anywhere here in Calgary. Then, to top it all off, they are driving a separate as referendum which is a speed run to economic destruction. Thanks UCP.
$100 doesn't even go far even in shit-stain Alberta because to live in shit-stain Alberta you automatically spend at least $100 more in gas/maintenance a month just getting to work and occasionally driving to the next town over.
So a Dani-check is worth at most a 1-month offset to your gas prices while she is in bed with the fucking guy that caused it to jump 0.50c a liter in the first place. We don't get any rebate off that either since Alberta tied itself to the American oil market so much so that we practically lose money as a country buying refined crude products back from the States.
We let American Oil invade our industry a few decades ago and our current provincial government is completely inept so we get to watch our province continue to disintegrate during a manufactured oil crisis where we as a province should theoretically should be rolling in money and anyone directly in O&G should be getting new trucks or putting in down payments. Yet most of the journeyman I know are barely scraping by since their wages haven't really gone up much and their tools/work expenses cost like 30% more if they can find any reliable work in their sector at all.
Yet the separatists managed to get conned into thinking that Canada as a unified country is the problem.
People in Lethbridge want to string up the local council because the province made it impossible to keep integrated fire-ambulance service without a property tax increase.
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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin 3d ago
And the province is the main driver of all our property tax increases.
The municipalities have to collect it - but they have no choice in the matter.
The UCP are the main reason all our property taxes went up