Reports of the death of Canada’s small towns have been greatly exaggerated

Small towns and rural communities are continually adapting to familiar challenges—aging populations, the closure of a major local employer, or limited access to communications infrastructure. Yet so many of these communities have not just endured, but thrived.

In this rebuttal to Maclean’s columnist Scott Gilmore, FCM President Vicki-May Hamm shows how rural, northern and remote communities are actively building a better future.