Personally, I'm quite disappointed in his performance. I voted for him, so I carry some blame, but to be honest, I simply wanted to pick the candidate that was best positioned to defeat Judy who would have been a complete disaster.
I was disappointed that he didn't stand up for Winnipeg when the writer from McLean's wrote that butcher article on racism in Winnipeg. Instead he cowardly apologized despite the fact that the article was full of holes as exposed by local radio. I wish the Mayor acted more like Dave Wheeler on this issue.
The Mayor has now lost my support. He's increasing taxes, and now is adding 3 more senior bureaucrats, which is the exact opposite of what he should do. I realize that they did cut some positions, but they needed to be permanent cuts. He needs to streamline city hall, not add bureaucracy. IMHO we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem, and he's making it worse.
CJOB reports that his numbers are dropping:
http://www.cjob.com/2016/09/26/poll-is-bowmans-popularity-dropping/
Personally, I'm quite disappointed in his performance. I voted for him, so I carry some blame, but to be honest, I simply wanted to pick the candidate that was best positioned to defeat Judy who would have been a complete disaster.
I was disappointed that he didn't stand up for Winnipeg when the writer from McLean's wrote that butcher article on racism in Winnipeg. Instead he cowardly apologized despite the fact that the article was full of holes as exposed by local radio. I wish the Mayor acted more like Dave Wheeler on this issue.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2015/01/welcome-to-macl.html
The Mayor has now lost my support. He's increasing taxes, and now is adding 3 more senior bureaucrats, which is the exact opposite of what he should do. I realize that they did cut some positions, but they needed to be permanent cuts. He needs to streamline city hall, not add bureaucracy. IMHO we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem, and he's making it worse.