02-28-2023, 10:48 PM
(02-28-2023, 09:17 PM)nms Wrote: Municipalities have been on the receiving end of federal and provincial cutbacks for the last 30+ years. In many cases, the federal or provincial government downloaded a service to the municipality with promise of funding to follow. More often than not the funding that was provided (if at all) was never in an adequate enough amount to cover the cost to the municipality to provide that service. Cities and Regions will be paying catch up for a long time to come.
Generally it's been the provincial governments, since municipalities are just a figment of the provincial imagination. The federal government does not really have any local services that it can download to municipalities.
That said, this downloading has caused a lot of problems, and they are not going away anytime soon.