The President of Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador says questions remain surrounding what a regionalization model would look like in this province.

Sheila Fitzgerald is the mayor of Roddickton-Bide Arm on the Northern Peninsula, a community that is facing many of the same challenges faced by other municipalities in rural Newfoundland and Labrador. She says while regionalization is a model used in many rural regions of the country, how it would work here is something that is still being examined.

88 per cent of residents in Canada live under some form of regional structure, except in Newfoundland and Labrador and in PEI.

Fitzgerald indicates demographics are forcing the province to give the matter some serious consideration. With an aging population and shrinking tax base another approach has to be taken.

She says while there are no other options, what regionalization will look like remains to be seen. She believes there is no one size fits all approach to the issue.