Free Transit is a great idea that will help us meet our environmental commitments to burn less, but first we have to make it safe for our workers. We cannot try and have free transit when there is no other easy option for desperate people to find shelter. Without free housing and supports, having a free bus downloads the task of dealing with often difficult, desperate, and dangerous people, onto the bus drivers and other transit workers.
A very big thanks to the transit workers who have been putting themselves at risk to keep us getting where we want to go. In particular to one who spoke up about the problems free transit will bring when we lack the infrastructure to house the homeless and care of the mentally ill. Without those services in place, a free bus becomes, by default, a free bedroom and most disgustingly a free bathroom.
Breezy will speak up on City Council to put programs in place and show that we have a caring economy. We want to have almost zero homelessness in Amiskwacîwâskahikan. We want every mentally challenged person to have supports, insuring they are properly housed and having their special needs looked after. That these social problems are not being taken care of, yet our city has built more roads per capital than most places in the world, and a host of other public luxuries, seems shameful!
Surely this speaks to the priorities of past and present City Councils. In defense of their lack of sufficient action we have to understand part of the problem is that both provincial and federal governments have been for 40 years cutting taxes and consequently cutting their transfers to our City.
- Breezy will demand that the upper levels of government raise tax rates and in a fair way.
- Breezy will demand that they share the revenue with municipalities.
- Breezy will encourage City Council to increase the property tax rate by a reasonable amount.
- Breezy will ask City Council to house the homeless and care for the mentally ill first before one more pot hole is fixed.
In the City Plan for building and maintaining our public luxuries, housing the homeless and caring for the mentally ill must come first before one more pot hole is fixed and before we make public transit free.
Breezy For Mayor
Vote Brian (Breezy) Gregg For Mayor October 18, 2021