Roman Catholic church says taxation will limit its ability to serve the community
Iqaluit’s mayor says churches should be taxed and he will bring forward a motion to do make them pay municipal property taxes at the next city council meeting, scheduled for July 13.
Mayor Kenny Bell tweeted he would move to amend the city’s exemption from property taxation bylaw shortly after news broke on June 24 that remains of 751 bodies, many of which are believed to be former students, had been located in unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Residential school, which is about 160 kilometres east of Regina, Sask.
“We’re not retaliating against them; they literally killed thousands of children,” he said in an interview with Nunatsiaq News.
There are 16 groups that are exempt from paying property…
