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Originally Posted by Simpseatles
That one mayoral candidate in Toronto was an idiot. Admitting that he almost called us a town!
We've got a metro pop. of almost 500 000! I sure hope that's not how most people in Toronto view London.
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Consider that 45% of Toronto's population is composed of immigrants (statscan 2001), many of whom generally are not likely to be too familiar with Ontario outside of the GTA. Consider the other half that simply believe that little of importance exists outside of the centre of the Universe. Toronto media focuses exclusively on itself, and national media identify Toronto AS Ontario (check out the CBC news web site sometime for example). Any reference in the national or Toronto media to London or any other Ontario city other than Ottawa is as "a town XXX kilometres from Toronto".
Taken in total, unless a Torontonian has actually been to London for whatever reason, the image for those who are even aware of London imagine a small Ontario town amongst farm land and forest (more like Woodstock or Goderich). Aware of the city or not, it not on their consciousness regardless.