UBCM proposals offer means of
lifting taxes from homeowners

Proposals which, if implemented, will go a long way toward relieving hard-pressed cities
and towns, at the same time lifting part of the burden of high taxes from homeowners, were
heard at the recent meeting in Nanaimo of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities.

Among the chief proposals contained in the report brought in by a special committee for
submission to the provincial government were these:

1 " Social welfare costs should
be borne entirely.by fed-
eral and provincial gov-
ernments.

Cost of elementary and
secondary education, now
the largest single cost
levelled against home-
owners, should be paid
entirely by the provincial
government.

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3. Entire capital costs of new
hospitals and of provin-
cial. highways forming
part of the main trunk
system should be borne
by the provincial govern-
ment.

The report also asked that
arrangements be made for civic
governments to borrow money
at lower rates. At present in-
st payments to financial
houses in New York and East-

: account for a

ern Canada
large part of civic budgets.

While the proposals in the
were directed at the
provincial government, from
ich municipal. governments
their powers, the -de-
s on the federal govern-
clearly stated in
words: ultimate
is no more .and no less
than a redistribution of the
sum total of federal, provin-
cial and municipal revenue.”
Over the years, both federal

report

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and provincial governments
have blocked any redivision of
taxes to meet the crisis in the
municipalities. The federal
government, while spending $2
billion a year on arms, has
continued to insist that muni-
cipalities should pay education
and other costs which should
not be a burden on home-
owners. :

Last week Prime Minister
John Diefenbaker again re-
jected demands from the Cana-
dian Federation of Mayors and
Municipalities for greater aid
to municipalities, despite
promises in the last election
that he would give municipal-
ities a “new deal.”

The provincial government
too, has repeatedly refuged
to adopt measures to help the
municipalities. Instead, addi-
tional burdens have been
heaped on homeowners, such
as cutting the provincial grant
on education and refusing to
pay taxes on provincial prop-
erties in cities and towns.

Socred policy has been to
cut the provincial debt by

“shifting a large part of the

debt structure to civic govern-
ments. In six years of Social
Credit administration total
civic debt has climbed steeply.

Significance of ‘the UBCM
report is that it represents a
new approach by municipal

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governments to the crisis in
civic finance. For years many
labor, ratepayer and other pro-
gressive organizations, includ-
ing the Labor - Progressive
Party, have urged a similar
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Adoption by the UBCM of
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A Children’s Theatre. presi
dent, a choir conductor-teach-
er, and an editor-journalist
are taking™three of the major
assignments in the Centennial
Folk Festival to be held at
the Georgia Auditorium, Oct-
ober 21 -. 24, under auspices
of the Vancouver Branch of
the Canadian Folk Society.

Mrs. Joyce Sobell, as pro-
duction supervisor, will co-
ordinate each performance.
Spotlighting the narration will
be William Philipovich, with
script writer A. J. Arnold
taking a liaison role in the

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Mrs. Sobell’s . experience in ;
the theatre goes back to Eng"

land and later to Vancouver

where she appeared (and ® .
still active) in leading roles yy
at- the University Fredem 7

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