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• <\/em>Federal budget a ‘step backwards’ for cities: Miller [ cbc ]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Days before the budget, the Toronto Transit Commission revealed its ambitious $6-billion plan to build a network of streetcar lines across the city over the next 15 years — but it was contingent on the federal and provincial governments providing more than two-thirds of the money. <\/em>Without any promised funds from federal coffers, the plan is left up in the air. Ottawa also rejected Miller’s call for one of every six cents collected from GST to go to cities. It’s not the mayor’s first rejection, and he says he doesn’t plan to give up yet.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

• Live within means, Toronto told [ Toronto Star ]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

There was some good news — the Conservatives extended by four years the Liberal program to share federal gas tax revenues for municipal priorities such as roads, public transportation and water. That commitment, which now runs until 2014, means an extra $8 billion.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“They asked for a sharing of the gas tax in the budget today. We’ve extended that sharing,” Flaherty said, adding that Ottawa will pump a record $33 billion into infrastructure over the next seven years.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Of course, the major metropolitan areas like the GTA will share in that,” he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

The budget also creates a “Building Canada Fund” to be allocated to provinces and territories on a per capita basis for improvements to highways, public transit, sewage treatment as well as cultural and recreational facilities. This fund starts at $572 million this year, rising to $1.7 billion a year by 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n

But municipal leaders hoping to get a share of the GST revenues, or a new federal fund to pay for transit expansion — two demands worth $7 billion a year — were left disappointed. They even failed in their bid to have the gas tax funding made permanent.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

• <\/em>What’s in it for us? [ Toronto Sun ]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Like Miller’s light-rapid transit plan or not, it was an affordable idea that deserved discussion. Harper and Flaherty didn’t suggest something better — as in a commitment to a massive subway expansion. Other than passing on some cash to the province, they appear to have done nothing for Toronto.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

• Feds ‘failed cities’ [ Toronto Sun ]<\/a>
\n• <\/em>Flaherty pledges $39B over seven years for provinces [ cbc ]
\n<\/a>• GTA famillies feel budget impact [ Toronto Star ]
\n<\/a>• In Liberal suburbia, Tories still have some selling to do [ Globe and Mail ]<\/a>
\n• A ward name by any other name [ Toronto Star ]
\n<\/a>• Ward numbers ‘meaningless’ [ National Post ]<\/a>
\n• City spends record $18.8M on council [ National Post ]
\n<\/a>• Costs of running T.O. [ Toronto Sun ]<\/a>
\n• Work on Junction Trail to start in summer [ National Post ]<\/a><\/p>\n

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