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Mayor Naheed Nenshi was furious Wednesday after the NDP government rejected Calgary’s application for $27 million in financial aid following last September’s snowstorm that devastated half of the city’s tree canopy.

“This is an extraordinary decision on the part of the government,” Nenshi told reporters.

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“Will they tell us next that because a one-in-100 year flood might happen every 50 years that it’s no longer extraordinary? This is unbelievable,” he said.

Last year’s event, dubbed “Snowtember,” prompted more calls to the city’s 311 hotline than the 2013 flood, after the worst pre-autumn snowstorm in 130 years triggered power outages across Calgary and damaged or destroyed about one million trees on public and private property.

The city had applied for $27 million in aid through the provincial government’s disaster relief program.