Regionalization can work. That’s according to the Interim Chair of Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador Amy Coady-Davis in response to one of the recommendations in the Greene Report.

The Economic Recovery Team recommends that residents of unincorporated areas be taxed. That falls in line with MNL’s efforts to ease the burden faced by individual municipalities by sharing infrastructure and services like fire fighting and garbage collection.

It’s different from the concept of amalgamation, whereby towns and communities would keep their individual identities.

Coady-Davis warns however that a “cookie-cutter” approach to regionalization won’t work.

Each region is unique with specific needs, says Coady-Davis, and using the same approach across the board is not the right approach.