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Originally Posted by dmacc
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Beg and whine? It's clear you have very little understanding of municipal finance. The province committed to spending this money, and then has decided to suddenly not hold up it's end of the deal. Asking for them to hold up their end of the agreed-upon deal is hardly "begging and whining" unless you're the type of person who hates commitment and stability.
Imagine that you live in an old house and work really hard to earn money to fix it up. And in recognition of this, your boss agrees to give you a raise which you will use to help fund roof repairs. Your paycheques at the beginning of the year reflect your new increased salary, so you make arrangements with contractors to begin repairs. Then a quarter of the way through the year, your paycheques are suddenly the same as they were before you got the raise. What do you do? Do you stop your roof repairs or do you spend less elsewhere to make up the new shortfall? Do you ask your boss what happened or just let it slide? Do you try and get back the raise you were promised or do you just roll over and take it?
The city is doing what any responsible government would do: ask for what they were promised. They would be doing local taxpayers a disservice if they didn't. SMH.