With respect, that is the perennial task of every mayor in Canada, and most of the premiers.
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The municipalities are creatures of the provinces.
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At the time of Confederation, 90% of the population lived on the land.  They did not foresee a time when 85% of people would live in cities, or that we would have an industrial and services based economy, or public health care, or income tax.
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Accordingly, it is something of an historical accident that the federal government has the lion's share of the revenue raising powers, while the provinces, post 1940, have almost all of the big ticket spending obligations.
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It is thus virtually unavoidable that the provinces are forever trying to obtain federal funding, and the municipalities are forever trying to obtain provincial (and federal) funding.
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That's the way ss. 91 and 92 of the BNA were written - against the backdrop of the fiasco of "states'  rights" and the US Civil War.