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"Great idea. I think we should also defer doing any work on our waste-water system, underground sewers and harbour cleanup.
Believe it or not, there are many things that go into making a city function well. You might never use the ambulance, but what if you do?? You'll be darn glad that we have world-class emergency service at that moment.
I don't think you'd by lying in the back of the ambulance saying "friggin city council!! I wanted them to scrap these improvements at last years budget!" "


Really? Because there are vast hordes of people dying prematurely from the ambulance service we have now? When a bunch of public sector workers pack a council meeting
trying to get a massive increase in expenditure passed, you know something's fishy.
Why not increase it by 14 million, then we would have the ultimate ambulance service.

I don't disagree with public expenditures, but this one seems like a weak payoff to me that is too oriented towards consumption with no lasting benefit. I would much rather they plow it into economic development or take the 7 million per year and continue to buy up derelict buildings and renovate them (ie the building between pizza pizza and maxim's). Plus it seems like an easy thing to postpone for a few years.