WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is allowing some exceptions to its plan to force small municipalities to merge.
The government is going to let two summer resort communities — Victoria Beach and Dunnottar — remain as they are.
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Residents had complained the merger plan did not recognize that the two communities swell in the summer with cottage owners and others.
The government is also extending the Dec. 1 deadline for other tiny municipalities to submit an amalgamation plan, if they have been hit by flooding or other natural disasters.
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The province announced last year it would require communities with fewer than 1,000 residents to merge.
A bill to enforce the plan is expected to receive final approval in the legislature later this week.
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