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Originally Posted by 1overcosc
The solution to this problem is to break up Ontario into five parts. Make the GTA a city-state province, make Ottawa a federal district, and the rest of Ontario divided into three new provinces, one each for the Southwest, North, and East.
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If anything we should be encouraging provinces to merge so that we can get rid of excess bureaucratic structures, in parallel with stripping down the federal government to only dabble in its core competencies. An Atlantic union would make a lot of sense. Alberta + BC or Alberta + Prairies would probably work as well, and could chunk off NW Ontario in the process.
Ontario already struggles to develop its own identity, and pretty much exists as a void at this point. Creating 3 have-not provinces from it would probably lead to more identity dilution, structural poverty, lower QOL and more inter-provincial squabbling.
Agreed that it probably makes sense to hive off GTA as a city-state, and Ottawa as the federal district. It should be autonomous like Shanghai or Beijing.
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