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Perspectives Paper | 2017

Cities as Prudent Investors: New Rules for Investment by Ontario Municipalities

Financial investments are an important part of the fiscal tools available to Canadian municipalities. A well-executed investment strategy can provide a source of income to municipalities, helping them prepare for future budgetary pressures and revenue fluctuations. This paper describes how the current municipal investment regime in Ontario works and its future direction and challenges.
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Perspectives Paper | 2017

Accountability Officers and Integrity in Canadian Municipal Government

This paper argues that municipal accountability officers in Canada can and do address many problems and dilemmas, but they can also create problems of their own. Accountability officers have limited formal authority, but considerable power to influence public opinion. The most important function of accountability officers is to provide citizens with the kind of information they need in order to make intelligent electoral choices.
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Perspectives Paper | 2016

National Urban Policy: A Roadmap for Canadian Cities

The 21st century has seen a renewed interest internationally in national urban policies. This paper draws on the experience of countries that have explicitly pursued national urban policies to solve complex and interrelated urban challenges.
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Perspectives Paper | 2016

A Recipe for Fiscal Trust

Local governments need to make significant financial investments, and must raise revenues through taxes, user fees, and possibly new revenue tools. But before they can take these actions, they have to build trust to convince their residents that new revenues are needed and will be spent wisely.
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Perspectives Paper | 2016

Paying for Stormwater Management: What Are the Options?

This paper evaluates the financial tools available to fund stormwater infrastructure (property taxes, development charges or cash-in-lieu payments, grants, borrowing, and user charges), and proposes user charges as the most appropriate.
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