00:00:00.000Just Cole's notes, the federal government, citizenship, criminal law, international trade, national defense, right?
00:00:08.660Provincial government, schools, education, your health care, your property rights, and then you have municipal governments.
00:00:15.520They're the one that actually plow the roads, pick up the garbage, responsible for your sewage and water, and local parks, and local policing.
00:00:24.680But time and time again, Canadians will vote in an election based on what they want to do, thinking on a provincial or federal level, when the municipality has nothing to do with it and no say in it.
00:00:37.080Well, you know, Jim, I kind of hate to do this, but I have to point fingers at the media first and foremost on that one.
00:00:44.260Yes, because we don't do a very good job of covering things municipally.
00:00:48.420In fact, we've let all of the local newspapers die pretty much across the country.