Towns and cities across Canada are facing difficult decisions about what services to cut during COVID-19 in an effort to balance their budgets.

Federation of Canadian Municipalities president Bill Karsten told the House of Commons finance committee Friday that plummeting revenues are endangering essential services, from policing to garbage collection.

Get set for a second wave of fiscal destruction to slam yet another level of government as Canadian municipalities get pounded by the pandemic, Mike Smyth says.