a reminder the guy currently pissing away the election called me (and my cohort from coast to coast) "incompetent, greedy, money-hungry" while telling us his government will not fund infrastructure, and will take away our tools to fund it ourselves. https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/theyre-wasting-it-all-poilievre-rejects-municipal-calls-for-more-infrastructure-money-9888384
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Everything we do at ground level is easily scrutinized by the public.
But taxes and DCCs are far from sufficient. Cost escalation and climate-driven asset deterioration rates mean that LGs with their small budgets cannot keep pace with these skyrocketing infrastructure costs.
DCCs are pegged to expected infrastructure costs over here in Victoria and the CRD. It’s not a tax and slush fund. It’s paying for real things that, if DCCs didn’t pay for, would otherwise fall to taxpayers. But someone has to pay.
This law forces us to be financially responsible, but we are not flush with cash. Far from it.