{"id":13181,"date":"2021-05-10T13:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/?p=13181"},"modified":"2022-03-03T14:46:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:46:45","slug":"the-history-behind-the-lack-of-local-representation-outside-of-town-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/the-history-behind-the-lack-of-local-representation-outside-of-town-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"The history behind the lack of local representation outside of town limits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-12.58.16-PM.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"721\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-12.58.16-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-12.58.16-PM.png 721w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-12.58.16-PM-300x241.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>People who live in areas outside the shaded areas don&#8217;t have elected local representation.  Map: screencap from GeoNB map viewer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is election day in New Brunswick, and Sackvillians who haven\u2019t already voted are heading to the Tantramar Civic Centre to cast their votes for local representation on the regional health boards, district education councils, and town hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But many area residents will have a decidedly smaller ballot than others. People who live outside of Sackville town limits, in the Sackville parish local service district, won\u2019t be voting for local government representatives on May 10, because they don\u2019t have any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According the department of local government approximately 30 per cent of the population of New Brunswick lives in local service districts. While some have elected advisory committees, these committees don\u2019t have legislated authority. Department of Local Government and Local Governance Reform spokesperson Anne Mooers says there are currently 164 Local Service Districts with a committee, leaving 85 without. Mooers says the number of LSDs with committees has increased since 2010 when the government created Regional Service Commissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CHMA spoke with Mount Allison Professor Geoff Martin to find out about the history behind this lack of local representation for 30% of New Brunswick\u2019s population, and many of Sackville\u2019s neighbours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A &#8220;STRANGE SYSTEM&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martin agrees it\u2019s a strange system, rooted in New Brunswick\u2019s unique history. And it wasn\u2019t always like it is now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you go back to the 1920s an 30s, municipal government in New Brunswick, like in many parts of the country, was actually the dominant level of government,\u201d says Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back then, services under jurisdiction of the province were actually mostly implemented by local systems, says Martin. Things like property and civil rights, social services, education, transportation, administration of justice, and \u201cwhat little they did on health care,\u201d were all turned over to municipal and county governments, says Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll of New Brunswick was covered by elected, local government,\u201d says Martin. The province has 15 county governments, as well as towns and cities with their own elected councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those municipalities did a lot, says Martin, though they did it \u201cin the style of the 1920s and 30s,\u201d when a county poorhouse was the norm for delivering what we now call social services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interestingly, Martin says the municipalities of the time actually had the ability to tax based on income and wealth, which they no longer do, instead relying solely on property taxes as a source of revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AND THEN ALONG CAME LOUIS ROBICHAUD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s this system started to be seen as inadequate, says Martin, and major change came with the Louis Robichaud government of the 1960s, who started an ambitious Equal Opportunity Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey decided there were serious flaws to this old system of municipal government,\u201d says Martin. \u201cOne of them was the great inequality in the provision of public services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe affluent municipalities and counties in southern New Brunswick could afford much better public services than the poorer rural counties, particularly in the Francophone areas in northern New Brunswick,\u201d says Martin. \u201cSo you&#8217;d have a better education system, better transportation system\u2026 better public services in general where there was more money, because the orientation was a very decentralized system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Equal Opportunity took aim at these regional inequities with the province taking over and centralizing health, welfare, education and justice. At the same time, the Equal Opportunity Program abolished county governments, and encouraged the creation of city and town governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was really transformative period,\u201d says Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The idea behind the dismantling of county governments, says Martin, was based on predictions of where things were headed. \u201cThey had this sort of modernization theory that said that rural New Brunswick will become depopulated,\u201d says Martin, \u201cand they won&#8217;t really need democratically-elected self government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And where there were rural population centres, the idea was to create villages and towns with their own councils. The town of Riverview was one such creation, based on a population centre in Albert County. \u201cThere were dozens of villages and towns that were created in as a result of Equal Opportunity,\u201d says Martin, \u201cto give democratic self government to those areas of rural counties that actually had significant population levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey thought everyone else would move into the cities and towns and villages, and they didn&#8217;t need to worry about the rural areas,\u201d says Martin. \u201cThat did not come to pass, and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s left us in our current situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LOWER TAXES AND LESS ACCESS TO &#8220;SELF-PROTECTION&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou have all kinds of issues,\u201d says Martin, like what&#8217;s called ribbon development, where to avoid municipal taxes, people move just outside of municipal boundaries.\u201d But in addition to lower taxes, local service districts have no representation. \u201cIt\u2019s very much laissez faire and much weaker regime in terms of regulation in these local service districts,\u201d says Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo, the people who are living out there, on the one hand, they pay lower taxes than they would if they were in a municipality,\u201d says Martin. On the other, \u201cthey receive far fewer services, and in a way, they have less of what you could call self-protection, or the capacity for self protection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By way of example, Martin cites the Metz hog farm that operated in Ste-Marie-de-Kent for six years before shutting down in 2005. Community groups fought against the farm for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was very hard for the residents who were unhappy to do anything about it, because they didn&#8217;t have municipal power,\u201d says Martin. \u201cNothing that Metz hog farm was doing, in terms of effluent and odour and noise and all this kind of thing, nothing they were doing was really in violation of provincial rules. So the people that were kind of left high and dry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story may sound familiar to some residents in the British Settlement area, who have been complaining of issues with blasting at local quarries for years, but have not been able to get help from the provincial government. In December 2018, an advisory committee formed in an attempt to get actions on issues related to flooding, emergency services, and the effects of blasting in the area. But in January of this year, the five local leaders elected to the Sackville parish LSD advisory committee resigned en masse in protest of a lack of support from government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LOCAL GOVERNANCE REFORM CONSULTATIONS NEXT WEEK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Brunswick\u2019s entire system of local government is up for major changes, as the provincial government considers local governance reform. The province has issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gnb.ca\/content\/gnb\/en\/corporate\/promo\/local-governance-reform.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a green paper <\/a>outlining some of the options for reform, including amalgamating areas into larger municipal units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public engagement sessions on the topic will happen next week. Two French and two English sessions will be held, one focussing on structure and finance, and the other on regional collaboration and land use planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meetings will be virtual, and people are being asked <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gnb.ca\/content\/gnb\/en\/corporate\/promo\/local-governance-reform\/participate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to register in advance<\/a>, and also complete a survey online. 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