The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of City Budgets
January 21, 2021 – Outdated practices make the budgets of too many Canadian cities impossible for non-experts to understand, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Time for an Upgrade: Fiscal Accountability in Canada’s Cities, 2020,” authors William B.P. Robson and Miles Wu grade the clarity, comprehensiveness, and timeliness of the financial presentations of 31 major Canadian municipalities, based on their most recent budgets and financial statements, and prescribe some simple fixes to help the poor performers. “Opaque and late bu...
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