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Originally Posted by Acajack
Gatineau does contribute some heft to Ottawa as a metro but the impact of that on Eastern Ontario as a region is fairly minimal.
Even without Gatineau tacked onto Ottawa, Eastern Ontario would still be a region dominated by one pretty big city with a couple of much much smaller cities.
As opposed to SW Ontario which has a bunch of medium-sized cities.
Brantford and Guelph are Kingston-sized, and then after that Sarnia and Chatham-Kent are considerably larger than Cornwall and Brockville.
Brockville is the fourth-largest city in Eastern Ontario and has a CA population of only 40,000.
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Dorval being closer than Ottawa for my part, I don't feel that the dominant city in Eastern Ontario is Ottawa, it is Montréal. People work more in Montréal than Ottawa from the folks I see taking the train in the morning. But then again we're closer to the QC border.