Calgary Herald- Alberta funding for Jasper housing rebuild ’can’t be spent’ amid impasse: minister
Alberta’s social services minister says $112 million earmarked for 250 new permanent homes in Jasper, Alta., is off the table if Parks Canada and the local government continue to pursue a different vision for the town’s post-wildfire rebuild.
we need a fourth level of governement to keep the money from being spent forever.
more money less service !!!
The National Parks are AB’s version of Guantanamo Bay. Why would AB get involved in anything there?
There’s no choice. The town of Jasper is inside Jasper National Park which is run by Parks Canada. So, in essence, Parks Canada has veto power over everything that either Alberta or the town want to do. Parks Canada created conditions for the fire disaster last year by blocking clearance of brush.
How about just not rebuilding it, since by the time they get around to building, it’ll probably just burn down again because of Parks Canada malfeasance
Sounds to me like they wanted it to burn down so they could rebuild it to their dystopian vision.
It is amazing watching ignorant, anti-science liberals burn civilization down.
I had said that the Jasper reconstruction would be used by certain interests to try to force through intensification/ high density housing. Where this article talks about “the town”, I think they mean those who would be collecting rent on those units.
ah yes, Jasper.
Canaduh’s own little Palisades.
Gavin Newsom is literally orgasming over this news. As he plans to impose the State MANDATED affordable housing demands on Pacific Palisades
from what l can see of the story, were *I* one of the fire victims, strategy is ye olde ‘take the[insurance] money and run’
aka what in gawds name is it about hoomahns they have such intense *attachment* to some grid reference?
I have never had a problem moving when necessary, but I realize that I am in the very small minority. Most of my friends are “entrenched” in their homes of 40 years plus.
I “retrenched” to Regina (love it here!) over 10 years ago. I always feel like the family of Anne Elliott, who have spent more money than they have and have to “retrench” to their gorgeous townhouse in Bath.
wakey wakey. its gone. most of what Jasper was is now smoke particulate
some of which is still in the upper atmosphere some has settled in europe some in asia, (kinda spread out eh). sheesh. ‘waiting for the bureaucraps’ pfft.
$448,000 each. Sounds a bit steep.
Why not build them right outside the park gate? And subdivide and sell a few thousand more lots and a big bejesus commercial area with free parking. Drive the Parks Canada buttholes nuttier. Name it Pocahontas after the closest abandoned mining town.
precisely. unless Parks Canaduh plans on expanding jasper park to the entire perimeter of the nation WHAT IS THE HANGUP? why the illogical obsesion putting the thing
right
back
where
it
was
burned
to
the
ground?
Parks Canada is a shit show. No way those appartchuks working from their kitchens in Gatineau can manage this. Everything they touch is poorly managed.
Contrary take perhaps, but it seems that the province of Alberta is being the intransigent one here. Why should AB insist that Jasper only get the money to rebuild single family homes, when Jasper has been experiencing a significant housing shortage and needs to build multi-unit buildings to deal with said shortage? It reads as though the feds’ only role here is that they dictate the boundaries of the town aka the available land on which Jasper is allowed to build, and those boundaries won’t be changing.
Perhaps this is a case of negotiating in public and some saner heads will prevail. Surely some tradeoffs can be made here.
Lets say you “owned” one of the single family dwellings that burned down due to Parks Canada malfeasance. Now they are telling you that instead of returning it to it’s state before it burned, instead you have to now live in a multifamily dwelling, because the government said so, and you aren’t being made whole.
Honestly I don’t quite know what to make of that. Sometimes disasters happen and you are going to lose, bigly. It isn’t necessarily the role of government to restore you to 100% of what you had before said disaster. Maybe you only get 80% of it back. That sucks. That’s also life.
There seems to be a parallel with people insisting upon building homes in flood plains even when insurers will not provide insurance for those properties due to the known risk of floods, then crying to government to help them when floods wipe them out.
Multiple things can be true here. The overlapping & conflicting jurisdictions make for a mess for rebuilding considerations. The rampant immigration into our country has severely impacted housing. The feds lousy management of the forest conditions leading up the fire. The city wants more housing. The province says no, only SFH. The feds aren’t saying if boundaries will be altered. I don’t think there’s any easy “Gotcha, it’s all your fault!” here.
John Stossel rightly made a big thing how those living on the coast continually get flattened by a hurricane.
then rebuild.
then get flattened again somewhere else on the coast.
then rebuild. with federal money of course.
then another hurricane and flurry of rebuilding.
rinse and re-re-re-re-re-repeat. and NOBODY in gubbamint cares because . . . .
its their zhob to administer the funds.
nutso.
Why not change the town’s boundaries at this time? It’s an area burnt out. Perfect time to look at expanding as the ‘scenery’ is gone. It’s a big park and Jasper’s footprint isn’t that big.
People who had homes should get them rebuilt and the feds can build more housing if it’s needed.
Much like the rest of the country, the “housing shortage” is entirely government created, and also entirely unnecessary and unwanted.
End the massive population-replacing immigration and the manufactured “housing crisis” disappears.
Canadians should not adapt for the new requirements of “Canadians” who yesterday were Indians, Syrians, Chinese, etc. and are now “sharing” our medical system, schools, etc.
Thirty five years ago, my colleagues and I canoed the Nahanni River. There were a few cabins from the days of the prospectors and trappers built in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Apparently, they were grandfathered (no houses could be built in the Nahanni National Park) because they had been there so long and the original owners were still living in them when the bureaucrats announced the regulation. Some of the cabins (at the time of our trip) had descendants of the original owners still living in them–these were not big houses–just four walls, a couple of windows and a door–but the Park bureaucrats really wanted to get those folks out. Perhaps, the Jasper National Park folks don’t want people living in the park at all.
They don’t.
The eco-zealots want the parks (all of them) to be for hikers and diehard low scale campers (tents).
They tighten restrictions on parks to weed out the ‘pleebs’ who they feel don’t recognize the beauty of nature.
No “perhaps” about it, Trudeau and his National Park gestapo don’t want people living in Alberta.
What is the cost of repatriating National Parks in Alberta to be Provincial Parks? Most of the Federal money being used in Alberta National Parks is probably Alberta taxpayer money anyway.
For example: Quebec doesn’t really want out of Canada, they just want Canada out of Quebec. Alberta could do something similar.
Unfortunately the federal government maintained title to crown land on the prairies until about 1930. The bastards just kept the parks when they turned over crown land to the provinces. Alberta really doesn’t have a claim.