Holding Canada’s Cities to Account: An Assessment of Municipal Fiscal Management

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Page Title:Holding Canada’s Cities to Account: An Assessment of Municipal Fiscal Management – C.D. Howe Institute
Article Title:Holding Canada’s Cities to Account: An Assessment of Municipal Fiscal Management
URL:https://cdhowe.org/publication/holding-canadas-cities-account-assessment-municipal-fiscal-management/
Published Date:November 23, 2011
Accessed Date:February 6, 2025

A new study from the C.D. Howe institute lifts the veil on opaque budgeting and routinely missed spending targets in Canada’s major cities. In “Holding Canada’s Cities to Account: An Assessment of Municipal Fiscal Management,” Benjamin Dachis and William Robson report groundbreaking research on major Canadian municipalities, and grade cities on the clarity of their budgeting and financial reporting, and on their records in hitting – or, more often, missing – budgeted spending targets.

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