Taxation is critical to rebuilding infrastructure and ensuring sustainable peace and development in conflict-affected countries. However, when policymakers and international donors approach the task of rebuilding fiscal systems, they base their ideas on the experience of developed countries.
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Sydney is Australia’s largest metropolis with 5 million people and faces serious challenges of infrastructure and service provision, environmental management, and spatial inequality. Its metropolitan governance lacks focus.
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What are the consequences of home rule authority on fiscal sustainability? What lessons does this hold for Canadian municipalities?
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This video features a panel discussion held on March 27, 2018, on the challenges and opportunities of the 1998 Toronto Amalgamation.  Speakers include Shirley Hoy (former City Manager, City of Toronto), John Matheson (former Chief of Staff to Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing), Alexandra Flynn (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto), Zack Taylor (Assistant Professor, Western University), and Enid Slack (event moderator, Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance).
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Enid Slack, IMFG Director, presented, “Smart Villages- Financing Services and Infrastructure” as part of The Fields Institute Conference on Smart Villages on April 4, 2018.
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Zack Taylor, Assistant Professor, Western University, presented as part of the event Legacies of the Megacity: Toronto’s Amalgamation 20 Years Later on March 27, 2018. 
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Enid Slack, Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance presented as part of the event Legacies of the Megacity: Toronto’s Amalgamation 20 Years Later on March 27, 2018.
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Alexandra Flynn, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, presented "Toronto @ 20: Participation in a “too big, too small” city" as part of the event Legacies of the Megacity: Toronto’s Amalgamation 20 Years Later on March 27, 2018.
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