Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, currently the department only enters into block funding arrangements with tax-based municipalities in recognition of the fact that tax-based municipalities raise a significant amount of their own revenue through taxation. Rae-Edzo is not a tax-based municipality and as such, it is quite dependant on the department for the funding it does receive for the operation of municipal services. Through the Keewatin pilot project we are trying to find a way to block fund nontax-based municipalities. It is part of the approach we are trying to develop through the pilot and it is certainly our hope that through that work we could find a way to block fund nontax-based municipalities in a way that would provide them with the degree of flexibility they currently do not have, but that tax-based municipalities which are block funded currently enjoy. Today, we do not have a way to block fund nontax-based municipalities. That is what we are trying to find through the Keewatin pilot project. Today that option is really only available to tax-based municipalities. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Ms. Ballantyne on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 11th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 11th, 1998
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