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Originally Posted by thewave46
I don't see how more or fewer provinces amounts to more than reshuffling the deck of cards. The large-scale programs and responsibilities still remain, regardless.
It's just a bureaucratic make-work project, because the big, expensive responsibilities still have to be done by some level of government. Smaller provinces just have problems with scaling upwards as specialized demands increase.
Unless there's a tangible cultural difference between the regions that justifies a new sub-national government to address those particular demands (see: UK devolved powers to Scotland, Northern Ireland), I don't particularly see the advantage.
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I see it more as an governance exercise. The GTA as a large metropolitan area has very different needs than the rest of the province and governing the two parts with the same set of policies is detrimental to all. The regions of Ontario are critically neglected by a provincial government that is insanely GTA focused. My region of Ontario doesn't have a single cabinet minister despite the fact that the governing party holds most of the seats here.
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