City’s The Bottom-Feeder Of Municipalities: Reader

Let’s not forget that unlike private industry, the city has that magic method of raising revenue.

They have magic dials that increase revenue every year without fail. Dials such as municipal taxes, fees (one of the largest being parking), fines (that $20 million loss from the speed cameras must have been painful), $20 million dividend from Hydro Ottawa, aka money users paid in excess of hydro received, water and sewer charges, restructuring programs like water and sewer to ensure they follow provincial rules … bull.