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Excellent content.

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How about a straight-forward list of what's bad about it? Mobility restrictions? How? What? Etc. There's nothing like a list to bring it home right?

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I see Paul Martin devised the “New Deal for Cities”.

Some policy papers I dug up...

“A NATION OF CITIES AWAITS PAUL MARTIN’S “NEW DEAL” — FEDERAL FUNDS FOR “CREATURES OF THE PROVINCES” - https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/assets/po/canadas-cities/Plunkett.pdf

“Place-based Public Policy: Towards a New Urban and Community Agenda for Canada“ - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237424452_Place-Based_Public_Policy_Towards_a_New_Urban_and_Community_Agenda_for_Canada

“Placing Social Policy? Reflections on Canada’s New Deal for Cities and Communities.” - https://cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2006/Bradford.pdf 2007 version online too

CPRN was dissolved in 2009

“The evolving role of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities“ - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1754-7121.2009.00089.x

“Reciprocal Relationships: The Role of Government and the Social Economy in the Co-construction of Social Policy in Atlantic Canada” - https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cpp.2011-065

“A National Urban Policy for Canada? The Implicit Federal Agenda“ - https://irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/A-National-Urban-Policy-for-Canada-The-Implicit-Federal-Agenda.pdf

“… Trudeau government’s 12-year Investing in Canada infrastructure plan, has a budget of $180 billion. Canada is, in effect, conducting national urban policy by other means.“

“THE CASE FOR A CANADIAN URBAN POLICY OBSERVATORY“ - https://canurb.org/wp-content/uploads/Eidelman-Bradford-TheCaseforaCanadianUrbanPolicyObservatoryFINAL06-16-20.pdf

“Policy in Place: Revisiting Canada’s Tri-Level Agreements“ - https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/102474/1/imfgpaper_50_neilbradford_policyinplace_oct21_2020.pdf

fwiw, I see, the Privy Council Office, the Department of Finance and the Treasury Board Secretariat are getting their hires from the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy - https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/news/government-canadas-advanced-policy-analyst-program-acquires-munk-school-graduates

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https://www.globalcovenantofmayors.org/our-cities/

https://urbantransitionsmission.org/

https://tap-potential.org/

WHO IS BEHIND THE TAP?

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability leads the initiative supported by a consortium of specialized partners.

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Great help. Thank you. Of parallel interest and maybe old news ..A Quebec court ruling on UNDRIP :

https://cassels.com/?pdf=1&postid=17731

And also a great overall picture of what’s going on in the attempts of the One World Dis-Order :

https://rumble.com/vn7lf5-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-must-see.html

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