Yes, it's a big question, but let's start with the reality that municipalities are really strapped for cash. If you look at the tax dollars collected in this country by different orders of government, the municipalities collect eight cents out of that tax pie, and that is simply not sufficient to do all the things that municipalities are expected to do, whether it's transit or whether it's roads and bridges or policing and community safety, and in some provinces it's social housing. But the bottom line is that the financial resources are not there for municipalities to deliver all the things they are expected to deliver on.
