If The City of Calgary listens at all to the "4 businessmen" trying to gut the Green Line transit project, they& #39;ll prove that
a) You have to be a top CEO to have a say in how your city is built, therefore
b) Calgary is not for everyone.
#yyccc #cdnpoli https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-here-are-ways-to-reduce-the-financial-risk-of-the-green-line/wcm/1ff969d4-9f6c-4366-8c4d-4e894011eda5/amp/">https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/c...
a) You have to be a top CEO to have a say in how your city is built, therefore
b) Calgary is not for everyone.
#yyccc #cdnpoli https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-here-are-ways-to-reduce-the-financial-risk-of-the-green-line/wcm/1ff969d4-9f6c-4366-8c4d-4e894011eda5/amp/">https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/c...
Barry Lester, Jim Gray, Steve Allan, and Brian Felesky are four Calgary residents that should be treated just like you and I on consultations for transit projects. The reality is that they& #39;re given special treatment — specific hearings at Council with no time limit:
This is only the public facing side of it, I& #39;m willing to speculate that #yyccc Councillors have spoken to these four men on the phone or met them offsite (no requirement to report offsite meetings or phone calls). It happened at least once: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/green-line-private-event-petroleum-club-calgary-1.5467592">https://www.cbc.ca/news/cana...
How many of you get as much one-on-one time with your City representatives as these four men have?
So-called Public Hearings and Public Engagement sessions should be renamed to reflect reality:
"Some-of-the-public Hearings" or
"If-you-make-less-than-$200k Engagements"
#yyccc
So-called Public Hearings and Public Engagement sessions should be renamed to reflect reality:
"Some-of-the-public Hearings" or
"If-you-make-less-than-$200k Engagements"
#yyccc
Also don& #39;t you dare point out that I made a grammatical mistake in this tweet and that I should have written "you and me" [shaking fist in air] don& #39;t you dare! https://twitter.com/RomyYYC/status/1259127283727634432?s=19">https://twitter.com/RomyYYC/s...