Iqaluit a circus for everyone to laugh at?

Iqaluit is being turned into a three-ringed circus.

A major paving job in Iqaluit has been brought to a screeching halt because the new engineer doesn’t think the pavement “looks right.”

Unless this project continues immediately, we will be stuck with gravel roads, full of ruts and holes, until next summer. The construction season is too short of nonsense. This is what construction hold-backs and guarantees are for. Get on with the paving and stop wasting time, taxpayer’s money and energy.

Ratepayers are asked to grant their permission for council to borrow money when:

* Council has turned down viable building projects that would generate the necessary revenue naturally.
* Invoicing for utilidor water services are nine months behind.
* A municipal election is just a few weeks away.

Council has wasted time and energy discussing “walking trails” (which no one would use), rather than sensible, straight-to-the-destination sidewalks. This is a city, not some tourist mountain resort. If proper sidewalks were in place, walking would be much safer for pedestrians.

Council turned down the most natural suggestion for the “high-noon” traffic congestion problem. The suggestion — stagger lunch hours! The cost for the consultant to complete the study and make recommendations was another example of wasting taxpayer’s money, since nothing the consultant recommended was accepted or implemented.

It’s time for all taxpayers to demand that our municipal government act responsibly and become good stewards of that which has been entrusted to them and stop turning this city into a circus for the rest of the country to laugh at.

Theresa Rodrigue
Iqaluit