The $52 Million Dollar Question

       Politics affects every citizen in this city, whether or not they care.  The mayor and aldermen keep the city functioning and running as they see fit.  This last election had just over 200,000 people turn out to vote.  In a city of over one million people, I feel this number is painfully low, and just goes to show how many people really do not care about who is running our city.  If you look around local news sites, you can see numerous people who have made it their life’s goal just to criticize and bash our city and council.  And I can honestly say, that I feel the same way about most of the issues!  The major issue that has a lot of people fuming, is the $52 million in Provincial taxes that were not taken by the province,  that the City of Calgary has claimed as their own.  To me, I just have a hard time understanding why the Alberta government would claim that they have to reduce funding to education, and then turn around and say there is all this money that they don’t need.  I have felt from the beginning that the City should put that money towards the post-secondary institutions that were short-changed by Ms. Redford.