City Employees: Canadian Cities

city employees: His central argument is that the fiscal problems confronting Toronto and all major Canadian cities are not caused by over-spending on civic services nor by excessive union wage demands, although this is what is typically claimed, according to Rabble. The basis of Canadian cities' fiscal problems is in Canada Constitution, which does not give cities the taxing powers to generate sufficient revenue to do all of the things for which they have responsibility. Fanelli is a former Toronto civic employee who looks at civic issues from the point of view of city employees and their unions. Cities are forced to over-rely on property taxes, which "is unsustainable in the long run." Property taxes are regressive, and don't grow with the economy, leaving cities in a constant state of fiscal crisis. This has been worsened further by the ideological dominance in Canada of neoliberalism. This is made worse by the fact that federal commitments to civic issues have been sporadic and insufficient to meet cities' needs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.