I recently attended a national, even international conference organized by the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation and held in Quebec City on the organization of business in accordance with the cooperative model. There were actual, current examples of communities that have taken charge of their situation regarding the loss of services in their respective communities. So the case is quite convincing. We believe that, since our regions are losing their populations, we can maintain services by joining forces. The notion of profit thus becomes less important than that of retaining services in one's community.
On November 29th, 2011. See this statement in context.