What Does Good Governance Mean for Canadian Cities?
Date and time
Thu, Sep 15, 2016 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
Location
Room 208N, North House
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto 1 Devonshire Place Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7 CanadaDescription
Photo by J-No via Flickr The quality of our governance systems is a matter of great interest to Canadians. Yet little has been written about what good governance looks like at the local level. On September 15, Zack Taylor will explore findings from his recent IMFG Paper on the meaning of good local governance for Canadian cities, and how to measure it.
Speaker
Zack Taylor, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Local Government Program at Western University and a non-practicing Registered Professional Planner in the Province of Ontario.
Organized by
The Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), at the School of Cities, focuses on the fiscal health and governance challenges facing large cities and city-regions in Canada, and develops solutions through original research and programming.