text: Barrie - perhaps you could phone up the politicians and ask why they started negotiating in secret when taxpayers were outraged at Ken King's original NEXT proposal? Why they aren't giving taxpayers a say or choice on the arena, the Olympics, etc.? One Councillor had the temerity to say that taxpayers elected him to make the tough decisions - not true, taxpayers elect them to make the easy day-to-day decisions and expect to be consulted on the big decisions. Ask Calgarians how they feel about their property taxes having gone up 50% over recent years during bleak economic times.