Recently, the provinces and municipalities made bids to the federal government for infrastructure funding. I watched a segment on the Victoria local news about how in the Greater Victoria Area, 14 municipalities had to make separate bids for funding to the federal government. Each of these municipalities were concerned that they weren't going to get their piece of the pie. Some of the mayors suggested that they should all think about almalgamating into one municipality so they only had to make one bid that represented them all. It was speculated that this would be a more effective approach.
I immediately thought of my Sustainable Community class and the discussion we had on decentralization. If decentralization is a more sustainable approach then why were these mayors suggesting to become more centralized? Was it because they were trying to be decentralized in a centralized system? My gut tells me that smaller, decentralized communities would be more sustainable but this scenario also leads me to believe that there are significant challenges to achieving that.
Unfortunately, I lack the knowledge of the inner-workings of government to make an insightful reccommendation for this problem and would appreciate any response from one who knows more.
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