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—Ian King, December 13, 2004

Saturday, March 15, 2003

 
Good news for Vancouver residents: Vancouver city council has passed a motion to hold property tax increases at 3.9%, the rate of inflation, or less. There had been fears that the new city council, dominated by the left-leaning COPE party, would follow city staff's recommedation to increase taxes 5.5% in order to cover increased operating costs and new programs approved by the previous council in 2002. Finance Committee chair Tim Louis said that council will look at reallocating resources in order to make up the gap between the council's preference for a more modest tax hike and the City's funding needs.

A nice surprise, if a bit unexpected. Most Vancouver observers, especially conservative ones, doubted COPE's election campaign claim that it wanted to keep tax increases at or below the rate of inflation. Perhaps the COPEsters will prove the doubters wrong in the end. But then what will Vancouver Sun bitch 'n moan artist Pete McMartin have to complain about, given that he's decided to be the COPE council's media antagonist? Who the hell cares? He doesn't even in live in Vancouver, having long ago bolted the city for Tsawwassen, the Lower Mainland's very own Little Rhodesia. So I would tell him to go to hell -- but he already lives there.
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