Globe and Mail- A look at Halifax’s climate property tax, ahead of a civic election that could determine its future
This is unique among larger Canadian cities – many of which have put little money toward climate change even as they declare it an emergency – and raises about $18-million in dedicated funds each year. But its prominence on the bill is a recurring worry to the city bureaucrat who helps dole out the money.
“Usually when things are called out on the tax bill, they’re at risk,” said Shannon Miedama, Halifax’s director of environment and climate change. “Every year I freak out that it’s going to get debated and pulled, and it hasn’t happened yet.”
Watch for wide scale fraud. It’s what government does best.
I thought Maritimers loved to pay taxes
Cloudy, foggy, rainy Halifax is going all solar and wind?
Yeah, that’ll work.
Haligoonians gonna goonie.
Halifax’s dream is to become as loony left as Vancouver, I think. I seriously doubt that tax is in any danger of repeal.
And where does that $18 million go? it gets wasted by Shannon Miedama, on salaries and expenses so that her and her staff can produce reports no one will read, and travel around the world to “Climate Change Conference Parties” (CCCPs) to come up with new and interesting ways to screw the taxpayer.
You nailed it.
Erect their Wind Turbines take out uncounted Numbers of Birds and Bats and the Eco-Freaks look the other way