Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Federal Liberal Government

Urgent Attention Dept: But they had to take a number, like any other interest group. The Conservative government launched its first majority mandate by bringing in an omnibus crime bill, despite the fact that the country's crime rate is falling, according to Montreal Gazette. Cities still carry a lot of the load for immigration, the environment, affordable housing, public health, emergency preparedness and public security, but they have never been given either the funding or the taxation power to carry out those responsibilities optimally and canada's biggest cities hoped that they would be at the top of the list of Ottawa's priorities when Parliament resumed sitting last week. It's the cities, not crime, that require urgent attention. They are the powerhouses that drive the country's economy, but they have been left to struggle trying to deliver on services that were off-loaded to them during the 1990s. Those were the years the federal Liberal government, determined to pay down the country's debt, pushed responsibility for a wide range of programs onto the provinces, which in turn dumped them onto the municipalities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.