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Originally Posted by balletomane
How would you rank be Canada's 5 most important cities and why?
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The premise of this thread is meaningless. Who thinks in terms of Canada's "5 most important cities"? Since when has this ever been a thing? You might as well ask for the seven most important crustaceans in Hungary or the four best drummers who played with Jimi Hendrix.
In terms of economics, culture, influence, importance, whatever, Canada has two major cities. Not three, not five. Two. We all know there are only two, and we all know which ones they are.
The second tier of Canadian cities consists of Vancouver.
Then in the third tier you have the remaining large-ish metros: Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Quebec City. What order you'd rank them in is debatable.
Nobody wonders what the top five most important cities in Spain are. Or Italy. Or Japan. Or the UK. Or even the US, for that matter. Americans will do a top ten, or they'll talk about New York and Los Angeles, but it would be a vapid exercise to declare "New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Houston--yep, those are the top five most important cities in the United States."
Top five Jewish majority countries? Top five members of Rush? Top five Jamaican medal-winners at the Winter Olympics? Top five James Dean movies? Nobody asks these questions.