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Municipal restructuring is an opportunity – opinion piece by Bruce MacDougall, FPEIM President

September 25, 2017

With 73 municipalities in PEI that only cover 30 percent of our Island, how can we expect rural PEI to be strong?  We can’t.  Many municipalities lack the capacity for local planning and strategic decision-making.  These are essential for shaping a better future.

If fixing municipal boundaries was easy it would have been done decades ago. If it had been done then, our rural service centres would be larger and better positioned to provide services and amenities that help attract new businesses and jobs.  More of our countryside would be just that – countryside.  Instead we have ribbon development along rural roads.  This has negatively impacted our Island in many ways, including driving up the cost of public services.

Read the full opinion piece.

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• to promote and foster effective, efficient, and accountable municipal government in Prince Edward Island;
• to present, as a strong and unified voice, the interests of its member municipalities;
• to guide and assist member municipalities in enhancing their overall operation and decision-making processes; and
• to guide and improve provincial and federal legislation, programs, and policies that reflect and impact upon municipal interests.

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