The city of Edmonton evidently thinks Albertans are so enamoured of tax increases now that the NDP is in charge that it has proposed increasing property taxes 4.9% a year for each of the next three years. ! f* W2 v% x2 B r I
4 ?% S0 D+ U6 |Mayor Don Iveson insists he runs a lean operation, but the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says spending has increased 74% in the past decade. 1 u ^; C6 l1 C2 L% H 0 W; L, P. `0 {( h i* sYeah so? You saying that’s not lean?