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Toronto's Fiscal Future: The Case for Structural Reform
The 2026 budget is technically competent. It is also insufficient. Here is why, and what an honest path forward looks like.
Toronto bears the costs of a senior government while retaining the revenue tools of a small town. Year after year, its government returns to the same exhausted toolkit — incremental property tax increases, reserve draws, and deferred maintenance — to manage a structural fiscal challenge that those tools are constitutionally incapable of solving. Three instruments are available, proven in comparable jurisdictions, and going unused.
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