The 2008 Local Government Performance Index – BC Regional Report

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Malign Neglect: What Calgary’s Water-Main Break Reveals about the Failure of City Government

Malign Neglect: What Calgary’s Water-Main Break Reveals about the Failure of City Government

The rupture of Calgary’s biggest water main revealed more than the problems of aging infrastructure. It showed a civic bureaucracy unable to provide basic services or fix things when they break, and a mayor eager to blame others and scold citizens for their selfishness in wanting city services in return for their tax dollars. Above all, it laid bare the increasing tendency of governments to neglect their core responsibilities in favour of social policy fetishes, and to sidestep accountability when things go wrong. Clear, competent, mission-focused public servants are a vanishing breed, writes George Koch, and governing a city is now mainly about keeping city workers, senior officials and elected politicians happy.

Cut Corporate Income Taxes Massively to Increase Growth, Prosperity

Cut Corporate Income Taxes Massively to Increase Growth, Prosperity

The federal Liberal government’s current budget proposal budget proposal to increase the inclusion rate for capital gains tax was met with justifiable criticism and opposition - primarily from business groups.  There is another corporate income tax increase looming. ...