The surest way to trim the bloated costs of municipal services is to privatize them. Competition drives costs down and quality up Municipal spending in British Columbia is rising far too fast. According to a report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the cost of running municipal governments – even after accounting for price
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B.C. Cities Need Heavy-hitter Negotiators
on August 31st, 2015
Municipal unions bring in outside experts for labour talks; the province should fund a team for B.C.’s municipalities I am in Montreal with my three kids in tow. It’s a fantastic adventure that had a funny start. There is always lots of construction in Montreal, so I wasn’t surprised to see policemen rerouting traffic around
Existing Budgets Could Fund Metro Vancouver’s Transit Expansion Plan
on March 26th, 2015
High employee compensation leaves less money for transit expansion and other public services Over the next two months, Metro Vancouver residents will decide whether they want to pay $250 million more in sales tax each year to help fund a $7.5 billion capital expansion plan, mainly for public transit. Both the tax hike and transit
Canada’s Housing Crisis Calls for Public-Sector Intervention
Interest rates are crushing new housing builds. It is time for new solutions Governments in Canada need to get back into the housing game, and fast. This means directly building non-market housing or buying and converting units to non-market rent. Canada federal, provincial, and municipal governments do, of course, have housing policies already. And