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Article: Powerless and penniless: more than 80 percent of Canadians live in cities and the vast majority live in four large metropolitan areas--Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal, Southwestern British Columbia, and the Calgary-Edmonton corridor. Any of these four regions could make a legitimate claim to province-hood based on population alone.(REGIONALISM-CITIES)
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- Canada and the World Backgrounder
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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When he came to power in 2003, Prime Minister Paul Martin said that fixing the problems of Canada's cities was a top priority. He recognized that cities are the engines of Canada's economy--just look at the numbers.
Winnipeg accounts for 67 percent of Manitoba's Gross Domestic Product (the value of all the goods and services produced). In Nova Scotia, Halifax generates 47 percent of the province's GDP, Calgary, and Edmonton together account for 64 percent of Alberta's GDP. And, Toronto is responsible for 20 percent of the entire nation's GDP.
In 2002, almost half of all Canadians lived in the eight largest metropolitan areas. They are, in order: ...