reach a point where they simply can’t keep
up.”
The similar challenge the typically rural
mun i c i p a l i t i e s f a c e i s a n a g i n g
infrastructure melded with the lack of a
significant revenue base – either from a
swelling population or the influx of tax-
paying corporate conglomerates – to offset
the day-to-day costs of keeping it inworking
order.
Those fiscal obstacles were the topic of an
April 23 article in the Ottawa Citizen, in
which Jean Paul St. Pierre, mayor of Russell
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