Provinces insist on funding without strings in letter, just days after federal budget offers billions with conditions
A letter released on Friday and signed by Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, who chairs a group made up of Canada ’s premiers and territorial leaders, urges Ottawa to respect provincial jurisdiction.unveiled strict conditions their governments must meet in order to access billions of dollars in spending on housing and other policy areas that traditionally fall within the provinces’ purview.
Mr. Ford and his Housing Minister told Ontario municipalities this week that the provincial government hopes to co-operate with them in talks with Ottawa on the new housing funding, as part of a “Team Ontario” approach. She also said many Ontario cities have already implemented new rules to allow more fourplexes, and that municipalities want their share of the new federal money whether they have made that change or not.
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