Victoria councillor wants military to foot the bill for Remembrance Day events
A Victoria city councillor no longer wants the municipal taxpayer on the hook for the cost of commemorative military events like Remembrance Day and is hoping the Department of National Defence and Veterans Affairs Canada will start chipping in.
Ben Isitt introduced the amendment Thursday to council's Committee of the Whole while they were debating a motion to provide more funding for the municipal police for the capital's Canada Day celebrations. Isitt's amendment was put forward on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, which raised the ire of many on social media.
"The timing was most unfortunate," Isitt said, "But one of my duties is to uphold the financial interest of taxpayers." According to Isitt, the defence department has a budget more than one hundred times larger than the City of Victoria's annual budget and he would like to see them chip in to "avoid downloading
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