A flawed OPP model
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 6:28 amDear Premier Wynne:
We were very disappointed to see your announcement last week that you have decided to go ahead with the flawed OPP billing model, which will increase our tax levels significantly in one of the poorest parts of the province.
Residents in our area repeatedly asked your government to consider fairer models. We also asked you to act on the Auditor-General’s recommendation that you take steps to curtail the escalating costs of policing. It appears that you have done neither.
The planned phase-in of the increases is an acknowledgement that this will hit people in our area very hard.
Now that you have adopted a model which counts seasonal residences equally with permanent residences, we trust that you will apply this broadly to all provincial funding decisions. If you think that this is a fair approach, we expect to see a commensurate increase in allocation of funding for health care and education and other provincial programs to our region.
This is one more very strong indication that your Liberal government does not understand or is not interested in addressing the concerns and issues of the residents of Haliburton County.
Tayce Wakefield
Little Kennisis Lake
http://haliburtonecho.ca/?p=5759
We were very disappointed to see your announcement last week that you have decided to go ahead with the flawed OPP billing model, which will increase our tax levels significantly in one of the poorest parts of the province.
Residents in our area repeatedly asked your government to consider fairer models. We also asked you to act on the Auditor-General’s recommendation that you take steps to curtail the escalating costs of policing. It appears that you have done neither.
The planned phase-in of the increases is an acknowledgement that this will hit people in our area very hard.
Now that you have adopted a model which counts seasonal residences equally with permanent residences, we trust that you will apply this broadly to all provincial funding decisions. If you think that this is a fair approach, we expect to see a commensurate increase in allocation of funding for health care and education and other provincial programs to our region.
This is one more very strong indication that your Liberal government does not understand or is not interested in addressing the concerns and issues of the residents of Haliburton County.
Tayce Wakefield
Little Kennisis Lake
http://haliburtonecho.ca/?p=5759