Politicians and citizens universally agree that Canada's urban
infrastructure urgently needs work. Roads and bridges are overdue
for repair, aging water systems should be replaced, sewage must be
adequately treated, urban transit needs to be updated and extended,
and it is necessary that public housing as well as schools, health
centres, and government offices are brought up to current
standards. But few cities have room to raise additional revenue,
and the federal and provincial governments to which they turn for
financial support are already in deficit, so who is going to pay
for all of this? Bringing together perspectives and case studies
from across Canada, the US, and Europe, Financing Infrastructure
argues that the answer to the question "Who should pay?" should
always be "users." Headed by two of Canada's foremost experts on
municipal finance, this book provides a closer look at why charging
user fees makes sense, how much users should pay, how to charge
fees well and where present processes can be improved, and how to
convince the politicians and the public of the importance of
pricing infrastructure correctly. Across the disciplines of public
policy, urban studies, and economics, almost no one is looking at
the extent to which users should play a role in infrastructure
planning. Financing Infrastructure contends that the users, not
federal and provincial taxpayers, should start paying directly for
their cities' repairs and expansions. Contributors include Richard
M. Bird (University of Toronto), Bernard Dafflon (University of
Fribourg, Switzerland), Robert D. Ebel (Local Governance Innovation
and Development), Harry Kitchen (Trent University), Jean-Philippe
Meloche (Universite de Montreal), Matti Siemiatycki (University of
Toronto), Enid Slack (University of Toronto), Almos T. Tassonyi
(University of Calgary), Lindsay M. Tedds (University of Victoria),
Francois Vaillancourt (Universite de Montreal), and Yameng Wang
(World Bank).
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