So,
THIS piece of wooly-headedness is coming to Council on Tuesday. If one wonders why HRM spends so much money on things other than its core priorities, this would provide an answer.
The report to Council was written by a young ex-NDP govt staffer. It seems HRM is full of ex-NDP govt refugees these days, including most of the senior bureaucracy. Perhaps that explains why HRM has veered off into so many far-left goofball initiatives.
One need only look at the list if participants at the end of the report to see why it makes recommendations for things like "fruit and nut-bearing trees" as a priority. I don't think we need any more nuts in HRM - we seem to have an oversupply, particularly in the municipal govt world. The participants seem to represent pretty much every squeaky-wheel special interest group in town. I note a distinct lack of representation from ratepayers and the general voting public, though.
We went from an inept mayor to one who now seems to be a closet NDPer, intent on continuing the disastrous record of the past NDP provincial govt by injecting govt into areas that should be far down the list of priorities. Is this really what we elected Savage to champion? I think not.
Priorities for HRM ought not to be developing urban orchards, planting nut-bearing trees or more nanny-state intrusion into people's lives (door knobs, anyone?). When will HRM realize that people want them to pick up the trash, provide police and fire services, enable development, and keep the roads and sidewalks in good repair? That's pretty much it for most people.
This lunacy must stop.
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