City pays for lawyers in CDN-NDG squabble
The city is dishing out thousands for lawyers for Sue Montgomery in the eternal squabble in Côte-des-Neiges-NDG. Is anyone asking whether that borough is focusing too much attention on its infighting at the expense of its citizens and their needs?
Notice also the single-paragraph snipe from Marvin Rotrand. I follow that man’s Twitter feed and all he does is throw in inflammatory remarks on any municipal topic. If he ever knew how to be constructive, he left that behind a long time ago.
Jebediah Pallindrome 11:04 on 2020-09-01 Permalink
If ever there was a borough to be split in twain…
It’s too big to manage effectively and everyone running it thinks they’re hot shit. This isn’t a new problem. Break it up.
walkerp 11:05 on 2020-09-01 Permalink
So with you on this one, Jebediah. Just look at it on the map!
Jebediah Pallindrome 15:39 on 2020-09-01 Permalink
Just keep in mind I also support building a fence around Westmount, topped with razor wire, and with only one entrance (with really inconvenient operating hours)
Not crazy about tax shelters in our midst…
Michael Black 15:42 on 2020-09-01 Permalink
So where will the traffic go?
Jebediah Pallindrome 22:04 on 2020-09-01 Permalink
In a caravan, straight to Westmount City Hall, to ‘negotiate’ their surrender.
NDG motorists are the single most powerful special interest group in the known universe.
david266 00:07 on 2020-09-02 Permalink
Recognize the professionalism of all parties, and their attorneys, by the fact that we still don’t really know what’s going on.
Kevin 07:51 on 2020-09-02 Permalink
Jebediah Pallindrome
I gotta ask: how is Westmount a tax shelter?
Jebediah Pallindrome 14:46 on 2020-09-02 Permalink
It isn’t, I’m being facetious.
I’m not crazy about independent communities within/ around a city where all the communities are essentially dependent on the city centre but can establish their own taxation schemes and/or otherwise not quite pay their fair share. That said, most of the damage was done long, long ago. I honestly think we’d be far better off if all the cities of the metro region were amalgamated into one super city, and then a new taxation formula was set up that was linked to earnings. What we have now is a bit too much of a hodge podge. I think a tax base based on the metro population, collected and administered by a metropolitan revenue agency, could probably get more money and allocate it better.
One island one city was a step in the right direction but it wasn’t marketed well. Given the challenges we face moving forward, more centralized, streamlined administration is going to be necessary.