What the Heck Is the Matter with the Mayors of Canada?

Since when are a few cities in a couple provinces reflective of all Mayors in the other 8 provinces and 3 Territories?

Here is a pic of Edmonton's Mayor, Stephen Mandel (Jewish) getting the traditional White Cowboy had from the Mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi (Muslim), at the Al-Rashid Mosque.



Now, how does any of that reflect badly on the mayors of Montreal, Laval or Toronto?

Your mistake Caleb, is in thinking that anything important happens in Canada west of the Ontario border.

I think this kind of shit has been happening all the time and only recently people are taking notice. Lets be honest, Qc has always been a pretty corrupt province, only now just starting to clean it up.

Personally I find Nenshi to be such a spendaholic left-wing goof that I'd prefer to have Rob Ford or one of the corruptoids from Quebec as Mayor of Calgary right now.

No shit! Goddam bicycle lane scandals... we're on the road to hell.
You center of the universe guys don't realize we always thought that as the biblical truth about every politician in Quebec and Ontario anyway?
Get over yourselves.

Actually the Calgary council over the last two years has stolen over $100 million dollars that the province had returned to Calgary property taxpayers from our education taxes. Instead of using these rebates to knock down the size of our yearly property tax hikes, the council took all the money for the their pet projects and left the amount of the property tax hikes intact. As a result, under Nenshi and that clique of big spending leftwingers that dominate city hall, taxes will go up 13% this year and will have gone up over 30% over the last three years since Nenshi got elected. And, yes, too much of the tax money is going towards stupidity like more bike lanes.

There's a litany of problems going on in Calgary right now, most of which are centered around our really bad city government. The provincial PC government is abyssmal too right now, but Calgary takes the cake these days when it comes to over-taxing, over-spending, and too many gaffes and other really stupid ideas going on right now.

100 Million only?? Canadian Local governments are cheap compared to the US and Mexico.

Holy crap! Makes me wonder if something fishy was going on with the books prior to the current mayor taking office.

Amen! We've got cities that can squander BILLIONS!!!

Holy crap! Makes me wonder if something fishy was going on with the books prior to the current mayor taking office.

In the absence of a thorough provincial audit that should be targeted at the last decade of Calgary city hall activity we'll probably never know. My own suspicion is that the smiley-face nature of civic politics covers up a lot of wrongdoing, neglect, and active thievery. In reality, despite the boom of the last few years, Calgary's really only increased in size by about 25%. Yet the spending at city hall has increased almost 80% in the same space of time. The lack of interest that most citizens apparently have in local government, as shown by a civic election turnout that rarely breaks the 30% of eligible voters bothering to cast votes, is quite appalling and is the only real explanation as to why the city remains incessantly under the control of these types of irresponsible big spenders.

No doubt...I wonder if anyone at the Atlantic have ever heard of Marion Berry or Kwame Kilpatrick?