ABSTRACT
The past two decades have seen attempts in several countries to reform the system of local government and administration. The old system had been found wanting not only for its distribution of functions and responsibilities but also for its geographic structure – the shapes and sizes of its territorial units and the existence of internal separators. The reform of local government is thus eminently a geographical problem even though its articulation, solution and implementation have fallen mostly into the hands of economists, lawyers and politicians. This work deals primarily with the experience of such reform in Ontario, Canada.
