Reforming how local governments are funded will provide resources to tackle many issues that need to be addressed.
At the annual Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Calgary last weekend, municipal leaders from across Canada released a critical report detailing the case for a municipal growth framework that would reform how local governments are funded.
This new framework is urgently needed. The current toolbox available to municipalities does not work when senior governments download responsibilities onto local governments . This cannot work. While Canada’s population increased from 30.7 million to 39.1 million since the turn of the century, a full 29.8 million of those 39.1 million people live in Canada’s 36 metropolitan areas. That’s two out of every three Canadians living in just 36 places .
Sure, they have development cost charges and amenity fees , but these charges increase the cost of housing. Aside from that, do they offset other increased costs, like wages of a parks maintenance employee or the rising cost of fuel used by the transit system? Not really. To counter our region’s vulnerabilities and diversify our economy, a group of regional stakeholders — including municipalities, First Nations, major employers and post-secondaries — came together in 2016 to create SIPP as a multi-jurisdictional, cross-sectoral alliance.Fast-forward eight years. SIPP has shown that it’s both an efficient and effective model. From a modest $1.
An example where this approach could apply might be addressing Greater Victoria’s need for family physicians.
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