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The mayor has some choice words .
Not “ we will get through this “ or “ we are all in this together” but
“ it is not going to be possible for every single business to survive”
“ a handful of businesses aren’t going to make it”
When people are looking to the mayor for leadership and inspiration she talks about ” palliative support” for business.
Tofino deserves better than this.
Ralph Tieleman
The mayor is right. We should all throw in the towel. She can post pictures of our funerals on twiiter and instagram or maybe live on facebook.
ReplyDeleteIf she cut taxes perhaps those business that otherwise won't survive will make it.
ReplyDeleteMoney doesn't grow in the pockets of Tofino Taxpayers. They work hard to put it there.
They don't need it pickpocketed by the district's sticky fingers taxation policies.
Some businesses get unrealistically low assessments so will have no trouble surviving. Actually just one.
ReplyDeleteFunny isn't it that we all know of an instance where a low taxation rate was somehow decided on. What was council thinking?
ReplyDeleteI never could figure it out.
It still smells like a dead sea lion.
The whole town isn't going to be so cute after all the businesses close because of taxation. All those empty places will smell like dead sea lions as well.
And Tourists, do you think they are going to come back to smell those rotting business carcasses?
Cutting taxes and local government services are the only chance we have of survival.
Meanwhile instead of cutting this council has borrowed from the future.
It is insane.
Jack Munro was right when all the industries were chased out of the area. What are you going to do sell popcorn to tourists for 2 bits an hour?
Now they've gone, now what.
It is important to realize that the Mayor had little to nothing to do with closing down the town. These measures were led by business that understood the issue before the local government did. The Mayor stepped in after residents and businesses urged her to wake up.
ReplyDeleteIt is these same individuals that will make decisions, based in part on what Provinicial health experts have to say, about how they will restart their operations.
With the water and sewer in working condition and the roads open our local government has one task- understanding what the District Office will look like post covid and review spending. They need to get their house in order, like businesses and residents have. It'll be painful, it won't be a good news story, but it will show leadership.
Mayor, Council, Wednesday that experts will explain to us all the general approach to opening up the Province again. Tune and and then do your jobs and stop acting like you can do anything to help us outside of easing the tax burden.
It is so simple, Tofino Government has grown so fat. Obesity comes with over consumption. Now that it is time to shed some weight, Henry the VIII decides a feast is in order, continuing on with another lavish multi course dinner. So what if a few commoners go down, as long as power is maintained in the hands of the King, for the benefit of himself and the cadre of over weight, over stuffed bureaucrats (all 24 of them) who should be on a diet or be on the menu themselves, but instead are actually consuming those whose productivity has enabled the feast in the first place.
ReplyDelete"Palliative care"? What kind of crap leadership is that. What we need is FREEDOM and for this kind of so-called government to get the ____ out of the way. People will not go down without a fight. We deserve a leadership that stands with the crew and fights.
Her worship’s campaign to ascend to Scott Fraser’s NDP seat may be impacted by such Darwinian statements! Survival of the fittest isn’t exactly a social democratic touchstone. More importantly, it’s bad politics to say such things publicly - what else might she say in the 2021 election?
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