NDP Municipal Affairs critic Jeff Burch will table a motion this week that would give emergency financial support to municipalities that have been deeply impacted by COVID-19.<\/p>\n
\u201cCities and towns throughout the province are on the verge of devastating cuts if the Ford Government does not step up and provide funding,\u201d said Burch.<\/p>\n
Municipalities are not able to run deficits, by law. So without emergency provincial funding, the financial burden of COVID-19 will force them to make deep cuts to the services people count on \u2014 like public health, transit, child care, policing, social service agencies, and city infrastructure. People shouldn\u2019t have to suffer those cuts, nor hikes to fees like day care or transit prices, said Burch.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether it\u2019s the working parent who relies on childcare, or workers who use transit to get to work, people desperately need the services municipal government provides. Municipalities have been clear that they need support, and it\u2019s time for the provincial government to step up and create some relief and certainty for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burch\u2019s motion mirrors the proposal put forward by a coalition of Ontario\u2019s municipal leaders and frontline municipal workers that would ensure vital services are funded, and municipalities keep their heads above water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NDP Municipal Affairs critic Jeff Burch will table a motion this week that would give emergency financial support to municipalities that have been deeply impacted by COVID-19. \u201cCities and towns throughout the province are on the verge of devastating cuts if the Ford Government does not step up and provide funding,\u201d said Burch. Municipalities are …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 03:27:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32033,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32032\/revisions\/32033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}