[ssiguy]

I think there will be a growing call for this kind of thing due to how some of the provinces are growing.

As I stated in the pop-stats thread, it is unhealthy for provinces to have nearly all of it's growth to be centered in basically just one dominant city which is the case in Ontario as well as BC, NS, and NFLD.

The dominant fast growing city begins to absorb a disproportionate amount of infrastructure funding and while the provinces try to keep building schools and other civil infrastructure in the dominant city, they at the same time are closing them down in the declining areas. It can also result in a warping of the political and economic landscape where the parties become completely focused on the dominant city and and ignore the other areas because that is where the elections will be won or lost.

Economically, it can lead to a lot of alienation as the political powers start acting like, for instance in Ontario, that "what's good for Toronto is naturally good for Ontario" which is not always the case. As an example, it was the more liberal and urban Toronto vote that led to the decision of no coal and more renewables. While this looks good in theory and has benefits, it was Torontonians who reaped the benefits of cleaner air but it was rural Ontario that has had to put up with the noise and visual pollution of all the damn windmills that have ruined the rural landscape.

The more this distorted growth continues, the louder the cry will become as piol;iticians and policy wonks begin to view Toronto and Ontario {or BC/Vancouver, NS/Halifax, NF/St.John's} as one in the same.

There is only one thing people and cities hate more than being talked about and that is NOT being talked about.