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By Staffer (anonymous) | Posted March 20, 2008 at 18:03:13

Stapher, I am a member of a staff...not necessarily the city's. That isn't the point. The point is your lack of accurate information. True, we should all pay for libraries because whether we use them or not, they are in our communities. Buses don't run everywhere. That is why they are excluded from costs...to provide buses everywhere one would have to jack up prices, or cut services where they currently have it. In the old city.
As for amalgamation, what you say is also true. Harris was a villain for doing that. However, what is equally true is that Hamilton couldn't afford to pay for its gold plated welfare services and needed the suburban support to a greater extent than it was already receiving it.
As for representation on Council....you forget that Ancaster had more than just one representative in the old days...they were all done away with. What did Hamilton lose?
Nada in terms of numbers. It kept its warhorses and worse still its culture.

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