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The Star’s business columnist David Olive wrote a piece about the extreme antipathy in Canada directed towards cities on Saturday:<\/p>\n

Outside Canada, great cities are regarded as national treasures, the face that countries show the world. Principal cities like Rome, Beijing and Kuala Lumpur, and even \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sub-national\u00e2\u20ac\u009d centres such as Shanghai, St. Petersburg and Edinburgh, are adequately funded by national governments. <\/em><\/p>\n

Outside Canada, senior governments partner with cities in what are regarded as national projects. <\/em><\/p>\n

Paris has funded a stunning makeover of the Charles de Gaulle airport in a successful bid to share European gateway status with Heathrow, Frankfurt and Amsterdam’s Schipol. <\/em><\/p>\n

With Britain’s enthusiastic support, London is attempting to outmuscle New York as the world capital of finance. <\/em><\/p>\n

Washington, whose ambivalence toward cities contrasts with Ottawa’s resolute disregard for them, financed Boston’s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Big Dig,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one of the largest U.S. urban-renewal megaprojects in American history. <\/em><\/p>\n

And to help spur tourism in the gritty industrial city of Bilbao, Madrid footed much of the bill for Canadian expat Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao museum. <\/em><\/p>\n

Outside Canada, cities have authority to collect local retail and income taxes, and they share in regional taxes. All that applies to U.S. cities, as well, which also have long been permitted to engage in debt-financing by issuing tax-free municipal bonds. Canadian cities, by contrast, are in a fiscal straitjacket, forbidden from running deficits, much less issuing and managing debt.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>. He concludes the above survey of other cities with what is now part of a growing sentiment: “Bottom line: It’s time Canada’s communities were funded directly by Ottawa, which is projecting $26 billion in excess funds over the next six years.<\/em>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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