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. 8 y! ^3 r0 f2 G! l
$ }0 l! s8 d0 m( L y# c5 [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. 9 m/ \8 K. k, h
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Yeah so? You saying that’s not lean?