Union Bug Blog
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Nov 21, 2008 -
Council Votes to Explore Municipal Corporate Utility
On November 19, City Council voted in favour of a proposal to explore setting up a City owned Municipal Corporate Utility "as a new arm's length business model to operate city owned utilities." They also approved actually using that model to design, construct, finance and operate two water and wastewater control centres. In other words, while Councilors said they were open to exploring new ways of providing these utilities, they are going forward with a business/public-private partnership (P3) model to provide these services.
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Nov 18, 2008 -
The Japanese Approach
Conventional economic wisdom has tended to suggest that, in times of economic difficulty, fiscal prudence and tax reduction are the best means of emerging from financial malaise.