(By Noushin Ziafati/CTV News)

  • zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    With what funding? Taxes have been dropping around the country and governments are perpetually underfunded.

    We should be lobbying for higher property tax rates so that municipalities actually have the flexibility to “act first, fund later”.

    • SymbolicLink@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Higher property taxes for multi-home or corporate owners, higher corporate taxes, break up the oligopolies, etc.

      I feel like a broken telephone. But if we say it enough maybe it will actually happen.