After restructuring occurred, the service was extended to everyone in the new municipality of 110,000. The Mayor of Blue Mountain says the restructured municipality can take a lot of credit for encouraging developers to pick the area. They would just sit there and sit there, because no one municipality could afford the repairs. The savings we got from the work on those two bridges alone this year is enough to say amalgamation works. And from the Chatham Daily News, a headline that says simply.
Business hails tax freeze.
Ontario has gained a lot through municipal restructuring. We will gain even more. I know that some municipalities have expressed concern that through amalgamation, they would lose their own local identity. I think those who have gone through the process can tell them they have nothing to fear. A community is not defined by municipal boundaries or by local government.