So Trudeau came out with some of his party's platform recently; some of which included pledging more money for municipalities and stronger connections with cities; and reinstating the long form census.
This is the fucking direction we need to go. Municipalities need way more money, either through control over revenue raising tools; particularly, taxes (excluding the property tax, which is the only thing they have control over right now). Fine if the federal government wants to lower taxes; I'm not even sure that I like a lot of large scale federal taxation; there's a lot of stuff in my own neighbourhood (macro and micro) that need attention and I would definitely prefer those who spend the majority of their time in my cities and towns to be making decisions about how those places work.
And holy jeeze Ontario and specifically Toronto and the GTA need some transportation infrastructure help BAD.
Apparently Harps has some sort of similar concept; providing a fund for urban infrastructure projects that 'will be there when they're needed' or whatever. I don't know; that sounds pretty awesome, but I wonder what the catch is.
Anyone know more ?