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IMFG Paper | 2025
Fiscal Gains from Real Estate Development: The Case of Québec Municipalities
Jean-Philippe Meloche
Report examines the relationship between municipal growth and property taxation in Québec.
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IMFG Paper | 2025
Eco-Fiscal Tools and Municipal Finance: Current Practices and Opportunities
Jean-Philippe Meloche, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot
Report details how municipalities can use innovative eco-fiscal tools (taxes, fees, and charges) to influence behaviour and combat climate change.
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IMFG Paper | 2025
A Fleeting Metropolitan Moment
Gabriel Eidelman, Jen Nelles
Report details the rise and fall of a bottom-up, voluntary regional collaboration in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and offers lessons about what it takes to build effective metropolitan governance.
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IMFG Paper | 2024
Flooding: Toward a Municipal Contribution to Economic Risk Sharing
Bernard Deschamps, Philippe Gachon, Michel Leclerc, Mathieu Boudreault
Report proposes an economic contribution mechanism for municipalities facing floods to reduce inequity and encourage mitigation and risk reduction.
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IMFG Paper | 2024
Levelling Up Innovation in Local Government: An Evaluation of International Smart City Competitions
Austin Zwick, Zachary Spicer, Aaron Eben
Report evaluates whether the nationally-led smart city competition model advances technological adoption in participating cities.
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IMFG Paper | 2024
Land Use Planning to Mitigate Climate Change in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
Clara Turner, Jeff Allen, Karen Chapple, Sarah A. Smith
Report evaluates the extent to which different forms of new housing production will achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets and suggests best practices and policy approaches for housing and land use.
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IMFG Paper | 2024
Reforming Statutory Public Hearings for Planning
Aaron Moore, Alexandra Caporale
IMFG paper examines mandatory public hearings in municipal planning processes and makes four recommendations to improve public participation.
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IMFG Paper | 2023
Decarbonization of Buildings in Canadian Cities
Robert Stewart
New IMFG paper on reducing emissions from buildings through property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing examines how municipalities can attract private capital to PACE programs.
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