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WENZEL: Calgary’s water crisis isn’t your fault — so why are you paying for it?
May 2, 2026
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In the summer of 2023, I warned that this was the plan. I saw the writing on the wall that the administration was moving to rule Calgarians rather than serve them. It has become a recurring theme where unelected administrators are essentially acting as the proxy for an elected council that seems to have forgotten who they represent. This recently implemented water restriction is just the latest example of a government that prefers controlling your behaviour over fixing its own failures.
Let me be clear that I support responsible water use and protecting our rivers. Investing in long-term infrastructure resilience is common sense. But I cannot support a plan that asks residents to permanently change their behaviour before City Hall addresses its own system failures.
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