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ea Sees Si ne EE Your Opinion: Gazette, Page 5, Tuesday, October 20, 1992 Consensus ignoring municipalities This is the fourth in a series of columns leading up to the October 26 national referendum. This week, I want to talk about the ab from sence the Charlottetown Consensus of any change in status for the level of government that affects peoples' lives the most: municipalities. Regular readers of this col- umn will remember this as a sort of hobby horse of mine. I had hoped that MP Iain Angus and Thunder Bay Mayor David Hamilton, both of whom said publicly many times they favored giving municipalities formal constitu- NORTHERN INSIGHTS by Larry Sanders tional status, would have pressed for municipal repre- sentation in the round of talks and hearings that led up to this Charlottetown Consensus. Their failure to do that makes it unlikely that municipalities will get constitutional status for at least another decade, since "constitutional fatigue" makes further reforms unlikely for at least that long if this deal passes. Mayor David Hamilton told me in a recent interview he learned at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference in August that AMO was "way ahead of David Hamilton" on this issue. Hamilton says AMO had brought the issue up to the fed- eral level (Federation of Canadian Municipalities, or FCM) and that FCM was "sent packing to the provinces" because municipalities are "creatures of the provinces" under the current system. There was a full day work- shop on the constitution at the AMO conference, where Hamilton says he was "pleased to see the tremendous interest of people realizing that munic- ' ipalities have to go beyond their present mandate to gov- em effectively in the 1990's." Hamilton says that prior to the October 26 vote, provin- cial governments would have to agree to any change in the constitution giving municipali- ties formal recognition as a "fourth order of government" in Canada. There would also have to be an elaborate consul- tation process (just like the one we went through in the last three years) to determine what powers should be retained at the provincial and federal levels. For example, should munic- ipalities have the right to col- lect income or sales taxes, to phase out the unjust system of property taxes we now have? Should municipalities have complete control over police and housing authorities, and continued on page 7 The 1995 Nordic World Ski Championships | } OTTERY STARTS OCTOBER 22 MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES ATTENTION LOCAL WOODS OPERATORS REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL The Ministry of Natural Resources in Nipigon wishes to dispose of approximately 1,600 cords of softwood which has been abandoned on the Auden Management Unit. 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