todays uni is more being good at tests not understanding shit

People don't learn to cook anymore

People don't understand how plants and trees grow.

ahem blue apron

I have internet, roads, stores, church etc. all near my property

then again polish rural areas are veyr different

You can blame fast food for that

usually you have a "center" where people have suburban conditions with simply more land. Artisans and other stores etc. there. Then you ead out some 15 min or less and you have the rural area.

i walk 15 min to get to the edge of the "village"

When he said urbanization do they mean more cities or higher populations of them or both

The Mayor of Ottawa is actively trying to force people out of the rural city areas to get them to come into the city and sell off the land.

Get rid of cities

Replace them with suburbs where the white man is at it's peak

And half of the budget is Federal and Provincial grants

Literally a city propped up by the hard work of the rest of the country.

He doesn't sound like he's very good at his job

He isn't.

But he's the only name out there, and he was the Minister of Municipal affairs.

attack the city with bears, give em a taste of nature

Quit Mayor a year early, gave himself the key to the city, then became the municipal affairs Minister

Quit that job early and ran for mayor again after changing the laws.

What laws did he change

He changed how one become nominated, and the rules involving fundraising and accounting for municipal campaigns.

All of his Law changes were in his own self-interest wow

Not bad stuff, but he changed the laws then ran for Mayor after stepping down a year early.

How did this guy get to where he is

So he had an obvious advantage.

He was the mayor, but was going to be defeated in the election of 2000, so he stepped down before that to run for the provincial government.

thats some legit top tier corruption.

there has to be a law somewhere that can get him put into prison

Ended up getting in good with Premier of that era, was appointed Minister.

Corruption is the exact reason why urbanization would be bad for the West

But yes, his goal is to force people out of the rural areas and get them to move into the city where taxes are now 15+%/yr

And his promise is to keep raising taxes at a rate of no more than 2% per year, but what people forget is that he has put in place a 2.4% infrastructure levy.

The levy said to be for infrastructure actually goes into General Revenues.

And after buying the land they Badger people for, they list it as "Surplus" land and sell it off to balance the budgets.

The adminstration lost 40M in property taxes

Then said it is fine because they just took money from other departments to pay for it.

But the reason they lost so much is because they got their inspectors to over-value properties in order to get more taxes.

But the province sent in their own inspectors and found they had been over-valuing properties and they got sued.

Canadian Politics at their finest.