CORY'S RANT： The insane climate plan proposed in Calgary.
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Jody Gondek is the new mayor of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and she's already proving to be one of the worst elected mayor s in the city s history. She's a climate crusading environmentalist, and has a climate change plan that sets the city on the path to becoming a net zero city by 2050.
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The city of Calgary, and this applies to anybody with a municipal government, it really does.
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So I mean, despite never having campaigned on it, the first thing Jody Gondek did as the
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newly elected mayor of Calgary was to declare a climate emergency.
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Her declaration was received with all the approval of a fart at a funeral.
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Undeterred, Gondek continued with her climate crusade and managed to get the Calgary Event
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Centre project cancelled within her first month as mayor due to rising costs, not the least of
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which were new climate change measures being applied to the project unexpectedly by the city.
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With all these efforts, Gondek managed to win the dubious honour of being the least popular
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newly elected Calgarian mayor in living memory, as her approval numbers plummeted to 38% within
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There is an emergency in Calgary, and citizens want it addressed.
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That emergency has nothing to do with the climate, however.
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I mean, over the course of the pandemic, Calgary's downtown has deteriorated into something akin
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Ground-level businesses are all graced with for-lease signs, while 30% of the office spaces
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Addicts and homeless people are everywhere, while discarded needles and human waste have
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become common sites on the streets in downtown Calgary.
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Calgary constantly attacks their police force, though, with threats of defunding and demoralizing
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them with the ordered removal of a patch that commemorated fallen officers.
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Calgary's transit service is still at only 60% of the use it was prior to the pandemic.
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The only thing that drowns out the smell of piss on trains is the wafts of meth smoke
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People have been randomly attacked on train platforms, and the city closed a number of
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expensive train stations rather than deal with the addicts who had set up camp within them.
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The city's latest effort to get people to use transit is an initiative to cut fares
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They have also implemented a policy calling for heavy fines for a person if they can't
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But they have no plans on dealing with aggressive addicts.
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Even if transit was free, people aren't going to ride it if they don't feel safe.
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But these cloistered, naive city councillors will never understand this as they drive and
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Whether Calgarians like it or not, Gondek's climate crusade is the city's top priority,
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and the climate plan the Calgary's administration released is shocking.
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Calgary's climate change plan is set to come in at a cost of $87 billion over the next few
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$87 billion in one city, with fewer than a million people of taxpaying status in the
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city, that amounts to over $87,000 per taxpayer, or about $3,100 a year.
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So, I mean, think of that in a household with a number of people.
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The plan sets an impossible bar of becoming a net zero city in emissions by 2050, along with
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forcing 60% of Calgarians to travel without personal vehicles.
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They will have somehow eliminated all non-electrical vehicles by then, or as well, by the way.
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New building codes and retrofitting is going to cost a fortune.
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Calgary is already in an economic crisis, and these ludicrous regulations are going to
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Neighboring municipalities have been reaping the benefits of Calgary's woke administration,
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as citizens and businesses alike have been fleeing the city to escape the taxes and regulation.
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The city's latest plan is going to cause nothing short of an outright evacuation.
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The bill for the city's climate action dreams are only going to be filled with massive tax
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The actions of the city are only going to exacerbate the existing problems downtown.
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Calgary's downtown is going to be increasingly morbid, and budgets are going to fall short
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Mayor and city council will likely only respond with further tax hikes to fill the budget void.
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They can't seem to think any farther than that.
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This city, the once and great thriving city of Calgary, is on the path of becoming another
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Detroit, or maybe San Francisco, where one has to avoid stepping in human excrement while
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trying to navigate through the endless tent cities.
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Many municipalities have allowed their governance to be taken over by delusional, woke politicians,
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And in the end, the responsibility still falls on the voters.
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If we keep refusing to pay attention to who's running for office, it's inevitable that a
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gang of clowns is going to rise to the top, as they have in Calgary.
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We keep our eyes too focused on federal and provincial politics at times and forget who's
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For that electoral error, Calgary and many other cities are on the road to economic ruin,
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and it won't do a damn thing to help the environment.