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Originally Posted by adam
Hamilton has been screwed and neglected for 40 years while Toronto has grown into a world class city during that time.
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Hamilton has been screwed (as have the other areas mentioned in the first post) by increasing forces of centralization into the nexus of Toronto, both commercial and government. Hell we don't even have our own bank, whereas practically every podunk place in the U.S. does. Plus look at the huge number of Ontario government employees on the $100,000 list that just came out. Where are a huge proportion of them located? Downtown Toronto.
People sometimes ask me why I'm against increased public sector spending. Part of it is that I have a bit of a libertarian bent, but part of it is that I love Hamilton and increased public sector spending drains the life away from communities like Hamilton over time and increases the primacy of capitals like Toronto and Ottawa.