Business View Magazine | March 2020

260 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 those cities with 50,000 or more residents— but struggle to see the benefit in supporting smaller cities, towns, villages, resort villages, and northern municipalities. Even Saskatchewan’s largest cities—Regina and Saskatoon—often struggle to receive funding when being evaluated against the larger metropolitan centres across Canada. Municipalities need their unified voice to be heard by federal and provincial governments, so that we can help them understand the importance of municipal infrastructure, and the struggle of providing the variety of infrastructure and services that municipalities have, with such a limited ability to create income. This unity was important enough that the (now former) Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association changed its name in 2020 to Municipalities of Saskatchewan, helping us more effectively advocate for each and every one of our members. For it is only together, sitting around the same table and working cooperatively together with all levels of government, that we can be truly successful as a nation.