This is a larger point. That is, we feel that senior levels of governments are getting played. They are backfilling for decisions that municipalities make to pay excessive wages to government staff. Therefore, they have that option. They won't reform their own houses so long as they have access to push the problem up. Unfortunately, both the federal government and the provincial governments have been showering more and more money to the municipalities for infrastructure so they don't have to themselves, and they can use operating money to pay for wages and benefits.
This is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Again, we don't have a position on whether the federal government should be out of it altogether. Certainly, if you are going to be playing a role, you should be ensuring that it's done fairly and that it's not simply just displacing other municipal dollars to allow them to spend in whatever way they'd like.