Re: ‘Change negotiations tactics with province, says former councillor,’ Cape Breton Post letter to the editor, Sept. 8. Regarding the above letter, ...
,’ Cape Breton Post letter to the editor, Sept. 8.
Regarding the above letter, former Cape Breton Regional Municipality councillor Vince Hall wasted an excellent opportunity in my opinion to criticize the provincial government’s obvious manipulation of one municipally related category. That’s the category of the federal equalization formula which yearly funds the municipal deficiency in our tax capacity to be able to comply with the condition enshrined in section 36 of the Constitution Act, 1982.
With respect Mr. Hall, it is not up to the Halifax Regional Municipality or to any of the remaining municipalities to decide what the CBRM is to receive from these federal equalization payments. The constitution states clearly the condition enshrined and there is no further legal authority for the HRM or anyone else to “agree to take less dollars so more can be sent to the CBRM.”
What is federally transferred yearly by this formula specifies the five tax capacity deficiencies that generated this year $2.803 billion. In the municipal tax capacity deficiency related to property taxes and miscellaneous revenues this year the provincial government received approximately $600 million. The capped provincial equalization grant of $30 million fails to address what is being federally funded.
Mr. Hall is correct to tell CBRM Mayor Amanda McDougall that “She is wrong to sit back and watch this process unfold while the CBRM continues to lose badly.”SaltWire Network welcomes letters on matters of public interest for publication. All letters must be accompanied by the author’s name, address and telephone number so that they can be verified. Letters may be subject to editing. The views expressed in letters to the editor in this publication and on SaltWire.
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