According to The Now, Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts is lobbying to change the balance of Federal and municipal funding for the police.

Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts is urging the feds to cough up more cash to help cities across Canada cope with rising policing costs.

A motion endorsed by Metro Vancouver’s mayor’s committee calls on the federal and provincial governments to change the cost-sharing formula for policing for cities with populations over 15,000.

Currently, the split is 90-10, with cities and municipalities picking up the bulk of the tab.

I presume this means that Watts believes the police are underfunded, and doesn’t want to take the blame for raising taxes locally.

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