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I think a lot of people in Burlington like to associate themselves with Toronto, but at the same time, there are a lot of cultural links to Hamilton there. A lot of Burlington residents are former Hamiltonians. There are also a lot of businesses that locate in Burlington to serve the Hamilton area. It really isn't Toronto, Burlington happens to be the place with the best, most serviceable land and most favourable tax policy in the Hamilton area (along the QEW). That's why I always took the unpopular position of partial support of the aerotropolis. Hamilton has lost out to Burlington time and time again because Burlington had a bunch of nice serviced ready to build land along the QEW while Hamilton had nothing (and has nothing). Note that brownfields don't count, as much as I'd like to see brownfields developed, that's not going to be the reality as long as every other city in the region has nice flat cheap serviced land along highways available.