Senior government should allow an increase to cost-sharing at 2012 levels and no further.
Allowing Hamilton endless extensions only fosters the kind of intransigence the city has been pushing since the
provincial and
federal funding commitments four and a half years ago. Even Halton can come up with a funding commitment, albeit comparatively small.
"Work on defining the 'State of the Harbour' was first initiated in 1985, a 'Remendial Action Plan' followed in 1992, and delisting is anticipated in 2015."
Harbour remediation has been on the agenda for at least 20 years and Hamilton still can't seem to get its act together. Inaction on RR is an indictment of this city's leadership. Let council lie in the bed it has made for itself.