Canfield ready to lobby for more funding for City

Kenora mayor Dave Canfield says the provincial government owes the city millions of

dollars in transfer payments.

Canfield is gearing up for the annual Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference next month and hopes to meet with a number of cabinet ministers.

He says his main goal is getting the province to restore the city's share of the Ontario Municipal Partership Fund.

He says when amalgamation took place 11 years ago, the province promised the city would not lose any revenue.

Instead Canfield says the Ontario government has given the city just 52 percent of the money it should have received under the Rural and Remote Grant.

He says before amalgamation Kenora, Keewatin and Jaffray Melick received 100 percent of that funding.