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recommendations.

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Now, if we just want to submit these questions

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to the Commission with the idea that we have not yet made

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up our minds, but this is the direction that we are think-

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ing, that is one thing, but I don't think we are supposed

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to ask them what to do until we have made up our minds or

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at least have some idea what we think should be. the answer

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to them. Do you?

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THE CHAIRMAN: I think you are really hitting

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at the heart of the problem. Our responsibility and

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really this whole question of local government has so

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many questions that are tied one into the other that how

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you differentiate and separate becomes really quite diffi-

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cult. Once you have an objective, then you start going

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ahead and implementing that objective, I agree, that

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actually right at this stage we've got really two issues

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that we have apparently made up our minds on and that is

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what political subdivisions and whether home rule should

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be mandatory.

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We haven't, however, got the detailed study to

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back up those issues as reflected in the very questions