Toronto can't cut or tax its way out of provincial cuts — and so the fight is on
After weeks of back and forth, the bean counters at Toronto city hall have finally been able to attach a number to the municipal funding cuts resulting from the provincial budget. Nearly $178 million — and counting. Toronto's got 178 million problems and Premier Doug Ford is all of them. The total, crunched by Toronto City Manager Chris Murray and sent to Mayor John Tory and councillors in a memo, includes a whole range of cutbacks. If municipal cuts are established as a successful route to deficit reduction, Toronto seems bound to face the knife again.
Source: CBC News May 12, 2019 12:56 UTC
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