{"id":874,"date":"2008-01-03T17:39:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T00:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/01\/03\/daily-diigo-public-link-01042008\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T00:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T07:38:00","slug":"daily-diigo-public-link-01042008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/01\/03\/daily-diigo-public-link-01042008\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Diigo Public Link 01\/04\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

High marks for Toronto confirms quality of life amongst best in the world<\/a><\/strong> Annotated<\/a><\/p>\n

Via Spacing Wire Toronto, the press release from the City of Toronto, announcing that T.O. was named by Standards & Poor one of the top 10 cities in the world in which to live. What’s of real interest for other Canadian cities is Mayor David Miller’s insistence on a more innovative & equitable relationship between the city and “senior levels” of government (feds & provinces — interestingly, he calls them states). He calls, among other things, for a 1 percent cut of the GST.<\/p>\n

Edit: by “1 percent cut of the GST,” as I put it, I meant that Miller is telling the feds that Toronto should be able to collect a percent of the GST charged to consumers in Toronto (vs. having it all go to the feds).\u00a0 The GST in Canada was at 6%, and it was just dropped down to 5%.\u00a0 In addition to that, the provinces levy a provincial sales tax, in BC at 7% (down from 7.5%, I think?).\u00a0 None of it goes directly to cities or municipalities at this time; it all flows to “senior levels of government,” i.e. feds & provinces.<\/p>\n

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