Monday, August 24, 2009

Now comes the hard part for cities

Drummond/Burleton: The Great Recession is nearing its end. But, for many of Ontario's municipal governments, the troubles may just be beginning. The main sources of revenues for municipalities are transfers from the federal and.. MORE...

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  1. really makes that useless 2% gst cut look really stupid now, doesn't it.

    Now we're going to have both the tories, and the liberals falling over themselves promising not to raise taxes when, both of them know full well they have get the money from somewhere.

    Unfortunately, the tories have a terrible track record when it comes to balancing the books. They talk a good game when it comes to concepts like fiscal conservatism, but, we've yet to see concrete examples of this.

    Apologies if this seems a little harsh in realty so early after morning coffee...

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