Calgary city council will now decide whether to rescind the city’s climate emergency declaration following a notice of motion from a group of councillors.

The motion from Couns. Sonya Sharp, Andre Chabot, Dan McLean, and Terry Wong cleared the executive committee on Monday.

The councillors’ motion not only seeks the declaration to be dropped but also an audit on the city’s climate-related spending.

“We hear the $87 billion strategy and administration will say, ‘Well, it’s not really $87 billion,’ so then what is it?” asks Sharp.

The $87 billion figure is not simply a sum the city plans to spend exclusively over the course of its climate plan, but rather a price tag that the city administration has pegged as the broad economic cost of investments made by all levels of government and the

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