Scott Pearce, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and Mayor of the Township of Gore, and Mike Savage, BCMC Chair and Mayor of the Regional Municipality of Halifax, take part in a news conference during the Big City Mayors Caucus, in Ottawa, on Feb. 26.The president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities says his members are community builders and not gatekeepers, a term Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has commonly used to attack municipal bureaucrats.
In response to a question on Poilievre’s proposed housing plan, Pearce appeared to reject the Conservative leader’s accusation that cities are standing in the way of home building.
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