You'll find a lot of rural municipalities, very, very big district municipalities that actually have no tax base whereas our system of government presumes that the bulk of resources from government will come from resources that they will generate themselves.
Some of the large [municipalities] in Quebec can contain within them most of the answers to their own practical problems. And so lots of different possibilities for doing things in a practical and different way become available.
I am quite convinced that we need to increase the resources that go to municipalities if we want the municipalities to do the things the Constitution and the law say they must do. It can't be avoided.
Those communal areas have got elected municipalities, which have got to do their work as, as fully, democratically elected municipal councils.
We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions. . . to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)
One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if they were the same kind of creature, with the same kinds of possibilities.
