lenaitch
Senior Member
what? He's not looking at messing around with Hastings County or Rainy River District? They'll feel so left out.
Our municipality is open for business just fine thanks, so he can keep his farm field paving, groundwater destroying, developer satisfying grubby hands to himself.
Actually, there might be opportunity for a little tweaking here and there but this government doesn't do tweak.
One problem with enlarging or amalgamating lower density but geographically larger municipalities is you lose the desire or incentive for local volunteerism in areas such as fire departments and municipal community boards. People aren't going to be as willing to commit their time to something they don't feel is local. It becomes worse when they amalgamate an urban community with surrounding rural neighbours. Things like interest, money, etc. tend to flow inward.
Given this government's history of political math, an amalgamated single-tier Muskoka would have, what, one elected official?
Our municipality is open for business just fine thanks, so he can keep his farm field paving, groundwater destroying, developer satisfying grubby hands to himself.
Actually, there might be opportunity for a little tweaking here and there but this government doesn't do tweak.
One problem with enlarging or amalgamating lower density but geographically larger municipalities is you lose the desire or incentive for local volunteerism in areas such as fire departments and municipal community boards. People aren't going to be as willing to commit their time to something they don't feel is local. It becomes worse when they amalgamate an urban community with surrounding rural neighbours. Things like interest, money, etc. tend to flow inward.
Given this government's history of political math, an amalgamated single-tier Muskoka would have, what, one elected official?