Harvey Schwartz () (Department of Economics, York University)
Abstract
This paper is concerned with two questions. What are the major problems facing Canadian cities in the 21st century? (The City of Toronto is used as an example). Are large amalgamated cities or decentralized cities better suited to compete in the 21st century? From 1995 to 2003 the Ontario government made a number of major changes in the way that municipalities were governed and financed. Some municipalities were forced to amalgamate despite the opposition of their residents. The government also redistributed the responsibilities of the province and the municipalities through the Local Service Realignment Programme (LSRP). This process is called ?disentanglement?. Since the LSRP lead to the cost of many of the shared-cost programmes being shifted to the cities, the programme is also called ?downloading?. Other major changes include the use of market value for property tax assessment and the transfer of education funding for the local school boards to the provincial government.
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Paper provided by York University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number
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