“This tension crystallized during the budget hearings when ABC Council. Brian Montague cast doubt on the validity of the City’s own annual budget survey… By questioning the method rather than engaging the message, Montague revealed a deeper pattern: when public input contradicts political direction, the impulse is not to adjust course, but to discredit the compass.” https://spacing.ca/vancouver/2025/11/17/the-costs-we-dont-see/
