01-18-2019, 03:50 PM
Colour me sceptical in general. Bigger bureaucracies tend to just be bigger, not necessarily cheaper or more efficient. One need only look at some of the Harper government's star-crossed initiatives to consolidate government functions to see how things can turn out in the real world.
That said, if the Region of Waterloo were to be made a single tier municipality, I think we'd muddle through without too many practical problems. How you'd deal with the K-W/Cambridge/rural "cultural" issues, I'm not sure. The experiences of Toronto and Ottawa suggest to me that that's the stuff of decades .....
That said, if the Region of Waterloo were to be made a single tier municipality, I think we'd muddle through without too many practical problems. How you'd deal with the K-W/Cambridge/rural "cultural" issues, I'm not sure. The experiences of Toronto and Ottawa suggest to me that that's the stuff of decades .....