Not necessarily. I have just come back from Europe, where we had a meeting on public-private partnership projects for French-speaking parliamentarians. We said that we should group together by region when we want to provide services such as arenas, water controls or infrastructure projects. A small municipality of 1,000 inhabitants will no longer be able to work in isolation thinking that it can meet all the needs of its entire population with projects that will be extremely costly. Projects must really be grouped together so that they are cost-effective for everyone.
On November 1st, 2012. See this statement in context.