Despite the federal government projecting billions of dollars of debt due to COVID-19, Windsor's mayor is confident that funding will still trickle down to municipalities.
“It just has to, I mean no city can weather the storm that we've just gone through,” says Drew Dilkens.
Speaking on AM800's The Morning, Dilkens says Windsor isn't alone with its challenges.
"They [federal government] will have to come and assist in some meaningful, material way,” he says. “It's going to cost billions of dollars to do so but there is no way for us to take the hole that we have or to take any hole that any city has and just put that on the property tax base"
Dilkens says cutting any sort of capital projects in the city isn't the answer to saving money.
"That's the last thing that governments do. When you have tough times and the economy is struggling, the first thing you do is actually invest in your capital projects because that gets people working, it gets projects done and its a good stimulus for the economy."
In it's fiscal snapshot released on Wednesdsay, the federal government projected a historic $343-billion deficit.
The City of Windsor is facing a budget shortfall of about $30-million due to COVID-19.