Canfield represents City at Pre-Budget Consultations

The provincial government is being urged to cough up more funding for municipalities in northwestern Ontario.

That was the plea from Kenora Mayor Dave Canfield, who made a presentation first thing this morning at a pre-budget consultation session in Thunder Bay.

Canfield says municipalities are facing extreme challenges with population declines,

industrial closures, increasing social costs, and declining tax revenues.

He is asking for a 75 dollar increase in the Northern Communities Grant to deal with declining assessments and a new system for transferring non-emergency patients in the region.

Canfield was one of the first presenters this morning.