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Originally Posted by isaidso
That said, I would like to see more parity amongst our biggest cities. Having 1 huge city that utterly dominates is problematic on many levels; especially in a vast federation.
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There's some scholarship that suggests that U.S.-Germany-China type population/wealth distributions, with multiple power nodes, are better for economic growth than France-UK-Japan type centralized distributions.
I could see Toronto's rise as potentially challenging for Canada's overall economic growth. In an Anglosphere-dominated world, you have Toronto, and everywhere else is problematic. Montreal is the "wrong" language/culture, Vancouver ultra-isolated and ridiculous income-housing ratios, and everywhere else is really cold. Winnipeg and Edmonton aren't really like Nashville or Stuttgart. Multinationals don't have the menu of options like in the U.S. It creates inefficiencies.