2014 Mayoral Election

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And it's not just been a Hamilton issue either. Other municipalities have had to deal with urban vs. suburban & rural splits and the politics that come with that.

I think without the creation of the Regional Municipalities, some of these suburbs would have been annexed as urban growth spread beyond the core city, following the pattern of previous decades. We'd probably have essentially the same issue today if that had occurred, maybe with less rural area within the City of Hamilton, ringed by a rural remainder of the old county.