April 28, 2024

Municipal spending skyrockets

 
Municipal operating spending has ballooned to nearly four times the rate of population growth.
That accoding to a new report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
In their fourth-annual municipal spending watch, the CFIB says while BC’s population grew 12-percent between 2000 and 2009, operating spending grew by 46-percent.
The report says in 2009, spending totalled four poi…
CKNW Vancouver News

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