CivicScene’s examination into the the potential rewards available at the municipal level in Canada’s three largest cities, as well as the means to access them, begins today with a breakdown of the issue of services being contracted out.

Is this the thinking behind Vancouver's City Hall in-progress transformation?

There seems to be three main targets for the “rewards” of civic government – real estate, community grants and services that are being contracted out.

But with the filth that is emerging in Montreal over multi-million dollar civic contracts, it seems like the most obvious place to start.

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