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   Hi Charles!   
      
   17 Nov 20 16:45, you wrote to me:   
      
    CP> I think the biggest take away people got from our situation was how   
    CP> outdated our utility infrastructure was.  And all these years later,   
    CP> little has changed.   
      
   Most communities are quite poor.  Even my town (governed by a mayor and   
   counsil) is struggling.  Their solution is to raise taxes - perpetually? They   
   also lobby for federal/provincial monies, but it always seems like trying to   
   take food from a wolf.   
      
   Meanwhile, there are empty commercial spaces - unoccupied for years. No one   
   can afford to participate in the town rates for taxes.  The end result..   
   infrastructure costs are not acquired and the town plumbing/sewa   
   e/elctrical/streets all fall apart.   
      
   There should be a more fluid and evenly spread-out application of the monies   
   in gov't coffers for infrastructure repairs - no questions asked.   
      
      
      
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