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Originally Posted by vid
In Canada, provincial governments have total control over the nature of local government. US State governments don't have that power.
Ontario could probably dissolve every single municipality in the province and govern the entire thing as a 1 million square kilometre city state if it wanted to.
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North Carolina has that power over municipal entities within its borders. At the moment, for instance, my city is being punished for being liberal. Our state representative has stripped us of control of our airport, our expo center, and next up is the water system. When we complained, we were threatened with dissolution in a threatening letter to the editor from that representative, in which he reminded us that all municipal entities in North Carolina exist only at the pleasure of the legislature. In other words, sit down, shut up, or face being forcibly merged with the conservative county that elected me in the first place.