Hands In My Pockets!

No, it's not our poor, our homeless, or disabled, with their hands out! It's our cities!

Canada needs to spend $123 billion to shore up the aging infrastructure of its towns and cities, warns the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

"These findings, combined with the evidence of deterioration Canadians see in their own communities, suggest that much of our aging municipal infrastructure is on the brink of failure," said the report released Tuesday in Ottawa.


You see, CANADA needs to spend..., not the cities, not the provinces, but CANADA.

Ontario is sitting on a surplus, are the cities asking them for money? Nope. Why not? Political allies join together to make their enemies look bad, that would be the Conservative federal government. Why don't the provinces raise their PST, they have 2% to work with now? Oh, it would look bad for them to do that? I see!

Cities are raising property taxes by double digits, just to maintain the services we have, not to improve them. Victoria still spews raw sewage into the ocean, is that a priority with them, nope. All provinces could solve their problems by increasing their PST (excluding Alberta). Didn't the feds just transfer extra money to all provinces to fix the fiscal imbalance? Where did that money go?

The heart of the problem is who runs in municipal elections. All lefties, all the time. Edmonton kicks out the only conservative voice on our city board, and I have it from a Nickels worker, that the lefties all combined their resources to defeat our only right leaning councilor. Now, Edmonton in the heart of Conservative country has a Liberal/NDP city board, how does that happen? Power from the bottom up.

"We can see the consequences in every community," the report said "Potholes and crumbling bridges, water-treatment and transit systems that cannot keep up with demand, traffic gridlock, poor air quality and a lack of affordable housing."

First they take over our cities, then our provinces, then our country. We sit quietly by thinking, it doesn't matter that our municipal councillors are voting themselves 10 to 20% raises, are using our funds to build 40 million dollar art galleries we will never visit, but when the streets need cleaning, our cupboards are bare. It doesn't matter because we have a Conservative federal government who will now protect us from the money grabbers.

Wake up, our cities and provinces need to be called on their spending. If the various levels of government would just do their jobs, maybe, just maybe, we would actually be able to help the disabled.

Hands in my pockets, politicians in my wallet, everyone wants a piece, until there is nothing left for me.