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Originally Posted by Andy6
Toronto was Canadian (if in a somewhat didactic way that grated on the rest of the country) back when that meant Robertson Davies, Northrop Frye, Pierre Berton, Gordon Sinclair, Foster Hewitt, Peter Gzowski, Margaret Atwood, the Grey Cup game at Varsity and the like. I was in on the tag-end of that era but it doesn't seem real anymore. Toronto is a headless monster now, though probably a toothless one too (which I suppose follows from being headless).
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I know the reaction of many to what you're saying is to claim that other Canadians want to impose something on Toronto that just doesn't fit. I don't think that's true. I think there is room for Toronto to be Toronto. (Just at there is room in the US for NYC to be NYC.) I just don't think there much interest in mutual sharing and dialogue on the part of the GTA. And also that there is an unrequited eagerness in the ROC to see Toronto play more of a leadership role as the head of the family so to speak.
As I said upthread, the attitude seems to be "That
Canadianistic stuff is cute and all, but we're just too busy doing more important shit with New York and New Delhi. So just follow our lead and STFU."
(This is also an appropriate moment to recognize that Quebec most definitely doesn't play ball very much with the rest of the country on such matters. Even less so than Toronto of course. But at least Quebec doesn't lay claim to a coast-to-coast leadership role.
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