Naheed Nenshi, Calgary’s 36th mayor and former Mount Royal University business professor campaigned as a fiscal conservative and a social liberal who was going to cut red tape and keep tax increases to just inflation and population growth, even as he built stuff.
According to Franco Terrazzano, Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, spending at the City of Calgary increased by 35 per cent, or a whopping $1 billion, between 2010 and 2019, at a time when thousands of Calgary households and businesses had to find efficiencies and trim costs.
Terrazzano says that over the same time period, the total residential property tax take for the city has spiked by 81 per cent. (Note that doesn’t count for the additional population, just the total increase in revenue.)
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