Show Us the Numbers: Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Municipalities

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Page Title:Show Us the Numbers: Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Municipalities – C.D. Howe Institute
Article Title:Show Us the Numbers: Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Municipalities
URL:https://cdhowe.org/publication/show-us-numbers-grading-financial-reports-canadas-municipalities/
Published Date:November 13, 2018
Accessed Date:February 19, 2025

Baffling financial presentations hamper councillors, ratepayers and voters seeking to hold municipal governments to account, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Show Us the Numbers: Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Municipalities,” authors William B.P. Robson and Farah Omran criticize nearly all of Canada’s larger municipalities for numbers that are obscure, misleading, and just plain late. 

*Note to Readers: This is an updated version of the Commentary with corrected rankings for the cities of Kitchener and Montreal

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