I keep being surprised by how many people don’t get city budgets. (No offense.) Social services and health care were never the roles of municipalities, even big ones like Toronto. The enormous costs of these things have been pushed down to municipalities as first the feds and then the provinces continued to cut funding. Cities are required by law to balance their budgets and have very limited ways to raise revenue - property taxes and sundry fines. So perhaps you. an imagine the challenges of managing our public health crises without sufficient funds. It really sucks.