All of the various municipalities in the St. John's CMA (this list isn't complete; excludes the City of Mount Pearl and probably a couple others) cost the roughly 200,000 residents almost half a billion dollars.
St. John's alone has 11 councillors for 108,000 people.
We should definitely amalgamate. There's too much anti-St. John's sentiment for it to happen willingly. It probably would be possible to amalgamate literally every other municipality into a sprawling city of equal population to St. John's without an uprising - but ****'em. It's time for the newcomers to the capital city region to realize what it is. If you hate St. John's, don't move to the Town of Paradise and bitch at us. Stay in Lark Harbour or wherever the fuck.
