Sunjeev Prasad
Opinion Reporter
A proposed watchdog that would keep track of municipal tax dollar spending received somewhat of a cold shoulder from Calgary officials recently. Municipal Affairs Minister Ray Danyluk argues that more efficient means exist to keep track of how communities are applying their tax dollars. The basis of Danyluk’s argument is that the watchdog concept would simply be redundant in terms of it overlapping with current validation measures already in place. Simply put it would be a waste of taxpayer’s dollars that could be allotted for better purposes. The Municipal Affairs Ministry is already capable of conducting probes into suspicious spending and in past encounters have been considered very stringent in doing so.
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