Comment 98098

By RailGal (anonymous) | Posted March 01, 2014 at 12:39:04 in reply to Comment 98058

I respectfully agree; the Province made a commitment 7 years ago when it seemed governments were flush with infrastructure cash. Economic times have changed and so has fiscal reality. Ontario has become a have-not province yet the federal government refuses to acknowledge its gross underfunding of Ontario.

My point is this: elected officials who have been sitting around the Council table in Hamilton for far too long still do not seem to understand that developing positive investment strategies and seeking to form investment partnerships with other levels of government and the private sector should supersede the inclination to expect that other levels of government will fix and provide. That cannot her achieved with year after year of zero percent tax increases. In essence, as we stare at the basket of lemons left over from the 2008 Global economic downturn, let innovation and new, bold thinking become the order of the day, instead of the hat-in-hand approach for which Hamilton City Council has become infamous. As Minister Glen Murray pointed out at the Chamber of Commerce lunch Feb 28th, it's time for politicians to behave as citizens again by understanding that more than .25% of the GDP must be invested in building sound, modern and beautiful infrastructure for the citizens of today and the future.

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