Bell: Trudeau-Hondek rescheduling seems like a done deal

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Let's skip the political dishes and get straight to the meat and potatoes.

Redistribution of coverage for Calgary. A big problem in private residential areas. They see four plexes appear next to them. Townhouses. Row houses.

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People are steaming. Steamed.

Let's keep it simple and connect the dots.

Calgary City Hall received $228 million from the Trudeau government for housing.

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The Trudeau government has no qualms about telling us how the strings are attached.

Trudeau types won't give you dough unless they're a ventriloquist and you're a mannequin.

There is no free lunch.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a housing plan. Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek and most of her city council have a plan for housing.

Both parties must sing in unison from the same song sheet.

Trudeau has been open about what he wants and how he wants cities that want cash.

The Prime Minister has visited Calgary twice in the past month.

In Calgary last week, he said he's put money on the table, and lots of it, for those who want to be “ambitious.”

Trudeau says cities are “really important players.”

They can change the way housing is built throughout their cities.

He talks about better zoning. How about four units on the lot without going through some messy public hearings?

If you agree, he has money, so the city can go and do it.

If you don't want to do it, don't take the money.

Last fall, when Calgary City Council was talking about their housing strategy, Trudeau's housing czar Sean Fraser explained who's the piper and what's the tune.

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Gondek took to Twitter to share Fraser's claims.

Calgary should legalize four-unit high-rises across the city.

The city “must stop zoning.”

On social media, Gondek warned that federal funding could be threatened or lost if the city doesn't play ball.

A majority of Calgary City Council played ball and collected $228 million from the Trudeau government.

A story emerged in Calgary last month where a city hall paper shuffler shows the city has said it will move to rezoning the entire city.

But he added that the city council does not have to vote that way.

Fraser, Trudeau's housing lobbyist, took to social media to remind Calgary City Council that dollars will be withheld from Ottawa if they don't follow through on what they agreed to.

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This week, Gondek doesn't want us to think about a deal with Trudeau.

After all, when your ship is taking on water, the last thing you want is Trudeau on board and looking over the captain's shoulder.

Gondek is demanding not once, but twice, that a public hearing at City Council on April 22 be decided entirely separate from Trudeau's dough.

City politicians listen to the public and vote on the possibility of building more units on the same plot of land.

When Trudeau asked the mayor if rezoning would put millions of people at risk.

“This is not what we have in front of us. What is in front of us is planning.”

If money is at stake, Gondek said, the city can renegotiate.

People at City Hall are being told the Trudeau government could be hit with unpaid dollars for the city if the rezoning is miraculously defeated on April 22.

This Frazier guy doesn't look like he's going to renegotiate if the city's blanket changes are decided by city council.

Prime Minister Daniel Smith will not save the day.

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Yes, Smith says, “this board is split on whether or not it makes sense for the federal government to rewrite all zoning laws as a condition of receiving a $228 million grant.”

Yes, he is legislating that deals between cities and the federal government require the support of the provincial government.

But that's for future deals. This horse has left the stable.

Sonia Sharp, a consultant, says the issue of Trudeau's money is sure to come up on April 22, whether Gondek likes it or not.

That's what happens when you reach for a dangling carrot.

Dan McLean, a councilor known for his opinion, says the situation in the municipality is “Liberal times two” with the Trudeau government and Calgary City Hall “running on the same ideology” and the prime minister and his people “greasing the wheels”. .”

Calgarians take note…

“They know Trudeau is working here,” McLean says.

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