Mark Carneys Zahlen sind groß. Aber sollten die Städte und Provinzen nicht mithelfen? – thestar.com
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/mark-carneys-numbers-are-big-but-shouldnt-the-cities-and-provinces-be-ponying-up/article_8fd9ccae-a0d8-4779-9487-45b9018722df.html
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The provinces are basically all broke because they are governed by populist goons. Provincial politics is a game of spite from rural communities towards cities. And so: The cities are broke because they exist at the whims of said provinces and are extremely limited in their capacity to raise revenue. To make matters worse, municipal politics is a game of “don’t raise my property taxes and don’t you dare allow anything to be built near me.”
So here we are.
The Constitution Act 1867 assigns a number of areas to provincial jurisdiction. This includes: insurance both public and private, private property and most public property including zoning and building standards, hospitals, charities, and the overall administration of justice and the general welfare.
The salary of your local provincial legislator usually depends on your neighbours not understanding this. I’m not sure what the fix is.
Provinces spending money? Hahahaha. That’s a good joke.
Everyone knows the only job of the province is to sit back and blame everything on the Federal Government while they get away with cutting the budgets of everything that actually effects your life.
Healthcare? Education? Housing? Literally everything that has a meaningful impact on your life is the responsibility of the Provincial Government, and they then delegate it all away to their municipal governments to allow them to either throw the blame upwards or downwards without ever catching any flac themselves.
It’s even worse when you realize that nearly every province has a history of scandals involving massive amounts of bribery or corruption involving large amounts of money