Can you imagine the many nice things we'd have with amalgamation?
Rather than bickering about who pays for what ... we'd actually have pretty close to world-class "everything", all in the best weather in the country.
What's becoming terribly apparent though, is that the CRD isn't just "13 little municipalities" ... it's actually comprised of a full spectrum of far-left to far-right voters, who - in the grand scheme of things - probably couldn't agree on how to cook an egg let alone amalgamate and try to do things like bridges, pools, arts centres, etc as ONE rather than as a bunch of tired little kingdoms who can only wonder who's paying for what - and more commonplace "what's in it for me"?