This video was presented as part of LGNSW's Finance Summit held in Sydney 27-28 August 2015. Dr. Enid Slack is one of Canada's foremost experts in municipal finance. Enid has been working in this field for over 35 years and is respected nationally and internationally for her research on property taxes and other aspects of municipal finance. Enid is an Adjunct Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Enid is a member of the Advisory Board of the Ontario Municipal Performance Measurement Program, the Advisory Board of the International Property Tax Institute (IPTI), the Advisory Board of CarbonTalks, and the Editorial Board of State and Local Government Review. Currently, she is a member of the Premier’s Community Hubs Framework Advisory Group. Enid was appointed a member of the City of Toronto's Business Reference Group on tax policy in 1999, a member of the Working Group of the Toronto City Summit Alliance in 2003, and a Commissioner on the Property Tax Policy Review Commission for the City of Vancouver in 2006-07. In 2009-10, she chaired the Municipal Port Property Taxation Fairness Commission in Metro Vancouver, and chaired the Intergovernmental Committee on Economic and Labour Force Development (ICE) from 2000 to 2014. Enid consults to governments and international agencies on municipal finance issues in Canada, and in countries such as Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Mexico, Mongolia, the Philippines, and South Africa. She has advised on property taxes, intergovernmental transfers, the division of expenditures and revenues among levels of government, municipal boundary restructuring, and other local finance and governance issues.

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1. Very good