http://www.twilt.ca/twilt/Pearson/community%20engagement/Section%201%20-%20Against%20Our%20Wishes%20%287%29.mp3

We might very well be walking the road to greater independence of our respective communities if the more senior levels of government don’t stop treating them like distant cousins. None of us wants this. We would prefer a place at the table, maybe even some constitutional reform that would recognize that some 80% of Canadians now live in cities and it’s time that reality took on deeper resonance in our form of federalism