3mo ago

'They're wasting it all': Poilievre rejects municipal calls for more infrastructure money

www.orilliamatters.com 'They're wasting it all': Poilievre rejects municipal calls for more infrastructure money

'Trudeau will give more and more to incompetent, greedy, money-hungry municipal politicians. I will cut the bureaucracy, and axe the tax,' Poilievre said in Aurora Friday

“Municipal governments, don’t ever let them bullshit you, are bursting with cash, and they’re wasting it all”

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Edmonton, Aurora, Sarnia, Moncton, every city and county, had better signal boost this to every person that Poilievre doesn't actually care about them and just wants his voters to get angry at everyone else.
Unlike provinces, most municipalities are not allowed to have debt. They're literally making do with whatever they can get.
Yeah, in towns all over there's corruption abound, small and big, but cutting funding to cities is not going to remove that, but actually make the pie that gets wasted bigger.
("Oh, the budget is 10% less, better cut back on kickbacks this year!" - No corrupt politician ever)

God damn what a fucking loser.

bursting with cash
Citation required.

Poilievre added that municipal government revenues have grown through the collection of development cost charges, and would require municipal governments to speed up permits.
Poilievre is almost partially right here. Development charges are waay too high in a lot of areas. In some communities in the GTA, they are >$100K!! However, municipal governments have done this as to not upset residents by keeping their property tax increases low. As my municipality's CFO said, municipal governments are the only level where their income doesn't increase with inflation (Ontario is still using 2016 property assessments).