Victoria Mayor Marianne Alto argued that council lacks expertise to assess police services.
Victoria city council is at sixes and sevens as to how its budget for the year ahead should be set. There are two areas of confusion.But in fact, that looks like an over-reach. Victoria’s inflation rate in February was 6.0 per cent, and for the year as a whole, most forecasters are projecting somewhere in the five per cent range.
The larger issue, however, is how to deal with the police budget. Council was presented with a spending package $1.7 million above its target figure. This actually happened with the Vancouver 2022 police budget, when the director of police services forced the city to reinstate $5.7 million that councillors had cut.
Two solutions exist. The province could stop interfering in council business, and leave municipalities with police departments to make their own decisions.
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