In reading some Facebook entries this evening, former city councillor and mayoralty candidate, Clive Doucet, wrote about a recent trip to the United States and how it left him feeling. Here is an excerpt which should make us all think about the Canada we want to preserve and build:
I wrote a book a few years ago called ‘Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual about how modern cities are slowly but surely slipping into insolvency and decay. It is one thing to write about it. It is another thing to experience it in cities that are much further along the curve. The same pattern of destructive resource allocation is happening in Canada. Our military budget is flying straight up while civic investments head towards the toilet without anyone able to stop it. People want their taxes stable or reduced. The military and police forces are sacred…that leaves what?
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