Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
There have been bailouts for oil and gas, big business and Bay Street, but there's still no clear new deal with cities and municipalities, yet cities from our larger urban centres, like right here in Hamilton Centre, to our small, rural and remote towns are increasingly being faced with the impossible task of either deep cuts to critical local programs and services or significant increases to municipal property taxes, or perhaps both.
Will the Prime Minister commit to providing real leadership in working with provinces to help fund our cash-strapped cities and municipalities to develop a new deal for municipalities or will this COVID crisis be yet another unbearable download onto the backs of municipal property taxes?