Canada’s business leaders are persuaded that Liberal rivals Jean Chretien and Paul Martin are onto something important in their diagnosis of serious dilemmas confronting urban Canada, but they reject outright prescriptions for any kind of new urban-related tax. They embrace instead a redirection of revenues from non-urban to urban purposes.

Traditional infra-structure issues like roads, transit, and garbage elicit profound and widespread concern while modern social issues such as street people and illicit drugs do not.

These are the key findings from the current web-survey of CEOs and other business leaders conducted by COMPAS on behalf of the National Post under sponsorship of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and CIBC Small Business.

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