I think we need to rethink rural communities as places to live; we need to recognize that we might need a different approach to policy and funding for rural communities from urban communities, and that actually one size does not fit all. I think we all know that, but we just seem to keep doing it. If we want to keep rural communities as viable places for people to live and work, we're going to have to approach funding and program and policy differently. We just have to do that.
I live in a rural community, and I would love my children to live there, too, but it's rather unlikely that they would because they're not prepared to live on almost no income. Again, it's one of these big questions. We can't all live in Toronto. So why can't some people live in Grey and Bruce?