Community Development in Canada: What Overarching System? What Type of Sustainability?

The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of community development through the lens of Christian faith within the Canadian city/region context. The fundamental issues deal with the overarching systems that provide for community development in our nine largest Census Metropolitan Areas (referred hereafter as CMAs). What type of sustainability can be envisioned? This paper examines what we know about the subject and what we need to know about putting processes into place in a systematic manner and that will create a long term impact in our CMAs.