A Kamloops councillor says he hopes pandemic relief funding from higher levels of government can continue.
Arjun Singh is a newly-minted board member with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, which just finished two weeks of virtual meetings with Members of Parliament.
“We hope it’s not just one time, if we need it again. Because we know the pandemic is going to last well into 2021 in terms of its rollout, and the impacts will be longer. So we’re hoping that, and we’re advocating quite strongly, for the federal government to make sure local communities are funded adequately,” Singh tells NL News.
“Obviously with our portions of tax being quite small, for city hall’s taxation, if we have recreation facilities that we want to keep open, like the Westsyde Pool, if we want to keep transit running and services going and we’re not getting revenues from fees, we need to keep them open somehow.”
Singh says other issues brought to MPs were to do with systemic racism, housing, climate action, and diversity in local leadership.