The Critical Compass Podcast - December 21, 2024


＂15 Minute Cities＂, the Role of Municipal Government, & Bureaucratic Waste

Gender Ideology as a New Cult Religion & the Loss of the Family w⧸Marco Van Huigenbos From Town Councillor, to Provincial Political Critic, to the Coutts Blockade w⧸Marco Van Huigenbos

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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

151.72

Word count

736

Sentence count

1

People

Also mentioned:
Derrick Bell Michael Johnson

Harmful content

Toxicity

3

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Hate speech

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In this episode, we discuss the proposed 15 minute cities in Canada and why they are a bad idea. We also talk about municipal government, waste, and the lack of accountability in municipal government. We also discuss the problem with municipal government and how it is run, and why it needs to change.

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00:00:00.000 it's become their talking points yeah so michael jance he's a city council counselor
00:00:08.580 travel safe today in the snowfall edmonton try to take transit and reduce congestion
00:00:14.540 your cars mean less traffic a 15-minute city would help prevent you from needing to leave 0.95
00:00:20.760 your district your district like can you believe this shit this two years ago all three of us would 0.99
00:00:29.780 have been like booed off of a stage somewhere because laughed off yeah laughed off 15-minute 0.99
00:00:37.460 cities yeah with your new world order right and i'm not one like i understand convenience i understand
00:00:43.820 all that but that's not what this is this is the first step to restricting you to your district like
00:00:53.180 dude this guy he's gone a little too far down the hunger games theology it raises a question well
00:00:59.320 i think people a lot of people forget what does a municipality like what what is their key role
00:01:06.900 what are they supposed to do and does that involve electric buses and saving the climate
00:01:13.140 why is there all this extra ideology attached when you aren't even fulfilling your base level
00:01:20.620 services exactly calgary's water is completely it's been a mess for many years it's not new it's not a
00:01:29.800 surprise it finally got to a point where it couldn't be ignored but they were ignoring it while putting all
00:01:37.500 this other money into fluff that doesn't really matter you know like fluff i mean there's so much waste
00:01:46.520 we say like rick bell likes to write about it right waste at city hall and i mean i don't always agree
00:01:53.640 with rick bell but when it comes to the city of calgary i i wholeheartedly agree and and that's a
00:01:59.240 problem in a lot of municipalities that's a problem in my own municipality too there and there's no incentive
00:02:06.000 to do better because taxation is real and you don't pay your taxes if you don't pay your property
00:02:13.060 taxes after year two year three they can you you they can take take you to court and and uh i mean
00:02:21.540 take away your property and i mean there's got to be a consequence like you got to pay your taxes but
00:02:26.920 it's become criminal in in nature as to how governments have been able to to tax people
00:02:34.480 and at what levels while failing to deliver the basic level of service right and and it depends
00:02:43.360 on what part of the city you're in what what there's a lot of factors but there is significant waste
00:02:49.380 in municipal government like tremendous amounts of waste whether it's uh through the rfp program for
00:02:55.780 projects where they they don't necessarily pick the cheapest um i mean i mean even the method how they go
00:03:02.540 about awarding these projects the community sets a budget as to this is what we're looking to spend
00:03:10.860 because the engineers have already submitted a a cost analysis for said project you're gonna
00:03:18.880 like i mean most contractors no matter how many they're all going to be within that range and that
00:03:25.380 range allows for a 13 for the engineers it allows it allows for a lot of things so there's no real
00:03:31.020 um cost benefit or savings for the community because we're we're telling contractors where
00:03:41.960 they need to be and what what this project the engineers are saying this is what the project
00:03:46.140 should cost and now we're just going to find somebody who's gonna you know who who if they're
00:03:52.720 in that ballpark they they get awarded the project okay this is something that should cost a hundred
00:03:57.560 thousand but the engineers made a four hundred thousand it's going to cost three hundred seventy
00:04:01.400 five thousand dollars and that'll be the cheapest guy the next one's going to be four hundred seventy
00:04:04.480 five thousand dollars and there's times where the four hundred seventy five thousand dollar company
00:04:08.000 gets the job for reasons that are never disclosed to the public but you know what they get paid for
00:04:14.100 by the by the taxpayer by the public purse so there's no and that money keeps on rolling in and they
00:04:18.080 can debenture it and they can it's just no business would operate this way i mean no business
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