Government
David Reid, the town's current mayor, was elected in 2010. The municipal council consists of a mayor, a reeve and five councillors.
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“How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave’s government also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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