03-02-2019, 11:58 PM
(03-02-2019, 10:29 PM)Spokes Wrote: The man carries a lot of weight, but not sure he'll get a lot of support on this one.
Yeah, my take on it when I saw the link on Twitter was that the former mayor of Kitchener espoused these views when he was in office too, so no big surprise. It seems to me that in the past Kitchener was always more in favour of Amalgamation than Waterloo... in 2010 from Wikipedia:
"Kitchener residents voted 2–1 in favour of studying the merger while Waterloo residents voted 2–1 against"
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_M...f_Waterloo
I myself really don't know what to think, some of the arguments for amalgamation make sense to me, but at the same time I think those arguments rely on things working ideally and there's a lot of data from past amalgamations to show that things won't go smoothly.