Newsletter Volume 22, Number 2 - UBCM Conference Issue

In announcing its intention to appoint a municipal auditor general (“MAG”), the Province has promised that the MAG would not have any more authority than provincial or federal auditors-general to probe into matters of government policy. That promise must be disappointing to the B.C. Chamber of Commerce, whose January 18, 2011 news release commented that “the addition of a Municipal Auditor General is an important part of the BC Chamber’s policy on creating equity in the property tax system”. Taking that promise at face value, one is left contemplating the function of a MAG.

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