[niwell]

Any large city that's required to pay for social housing is going to be at a huge disadvantage in comparisons like this. As vid pointed out, the downloading of services in Ontario has led to certain municipalities being at a far greater disadvantage than others. I didn't realized about Thunder Bay, but in the Golden Horseshoe Toronto and Hamilton carry a larger financial burden on their social housing as compared to neighbouring suburban municipalities simply because they have a lot more of it for obvious reasons.

That's only one of the examples which makes such comparisons a difficult thing. Unless we know what services are being provided for directly by the municipality it isn't exactly apples to apples.