Just moved to Greater Victoria? Just saw your latest tax bill and are gobsmacked? Just coming out of hiding after suffering an existential crisis because of the pandemic and climate change?
This quiz on local government will help you survive if you end up grasping in a municipal twilight zone.
1. How many souls live on the South Island:
a) 368,000
b) about 900,000 if you’re talking about shoes
c) about 450,000 people
2.
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