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unimaginative2
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Umm...all over the country?
So at what point are Torontonians supposed to start to be grateful? At the billion being spent on the first phase of the waterfront? This is just silliness. Every dealing with other levels of government shouldn't be a time to whine about how hard done by we are. We do pretty well. Of course, some things are unreasonable and need to be changed, but every region has its own problems in its dealings with upper levels of government.
I said a billion, not a million. That's the federal funding just for the first phase of the waterfront. Then there's their third for the subway, and their third for all the cultural insitution expansions. Go ask somebody in Regina, Kitchener, Windsor, or Edmonton whether they get that kind of federal support.
So at what point are Torontonians supposed to start to be grateful? At the billion being spent on the first phase of the waterfront?
Scarberiankhatru's point is exactly right. I'm talking proportionally here. Waterloo Region is about a fifth the size of Toronto. I haven't seen $200 million dollars in federal funding for a single project in any of the time I lived there.
I hate getting into this because I'm as big a Toronto booster as anyone. I support every dollar that's getting spent on improving Canada's largest city. I'd like to see a lot more money being spent. I just don't think it's reasonable for Toronto to complain it's hard done by, especially by the federal government.
Just because every city has not received the money it deserves, it doesn't make it wrong when Toronto does receive it, especially considering that so much 'Toronto money' goes towards helping other parts of the country at the expense of it's own infrastructure and other needs.