Thinking Regionally: How to Improve Service Delivery in Canada's Cities
Author: Adam Found, Zachary Spicer
Topic: Service system integration
Publisher: C.D. Howe Institute
Location: Canada
Format: Report
Content Type: Research
Publication Date: October 31, 2016
As city-regions across Canada continue to grow, the need for some municipal services, such as mass transit, is shifting from a local to a regional basis. This transformation is giving rise to regional servicing challenges, placing greater pressure on city-regions and their municipalities to provide services across municipal boundaries in a coordinated and streamlined fashion. The antiquated solutions of forced amalgamation and provincial mandates on service sharing have produced few economies of scale and have greatly undermined local autonomy. Provinces need to shift their focus from imposing centralized local government to creating frameworks that promote cooperative and flexible local governance. By working together in such a framework, municipalities can identify and resolve regional servicing challenges effectively, all while keeping amalgamation at bay and their local autonomy intact.
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