[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“The timing is what it is… but our commitment to supporting Edmontonians to transition to a lower carbon future is actually the underlying point here,” Iveson said.Tim Cartmell said it’s “a real question of optics and priority.”“The idea that we cannot do something as simple as keep the fields cut so the children can play — or operate and open up spray parks or spray pads… yet there’s money to buy very expensive bikes and subsidize that for people,” Cartmell said.
However, he did note cutting grass is not necessarily the highest priority on his list either.“Frankly that’s an aesthetic concern,” he said.“I appreciate that and I don’t want to be dismissive of that, but.