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Is that a problem?
The affordability crisis in the first half of the 20th century saw people leave their unaffordable homes for affordable places like Toronto. Their home regions unquestionably suffered for it, but Toronto was able to flourish because of it.
Maybe it's okay to see new places get their turn? After all, Toronto would just be a poduck town if such movement never happens. Did nothing good come of Toronto's massive growth?
You make a good point. With immigration, Canada's population will grow. Toronto cannot be the only city to which people move to.
But that's where most immigrants live!
It did allow Toronto to become the business capital of all of Canada. It was previously Montreal.
People didn't move to Toronto from Montreal because it's more affordable. They moved because of the language laws that make English speakers second class at best in Quebec.
It was more about the Quebec independence referendum. Before that, Montreal was the economic capital of Canada.
Weren't those passed in the 1990s? I thought businesses moved their headquarters out of Montreal in the 60s and 70s with the threat of separation (and FLQ bombings).
If New York is the City that never sleeps, Toronto is the city that has a 11pm bedtime.
I didn’t mean to claim that Toronto was more affordable than Montreal, simply that Toronto previous affordability allowed it to become what it is today.
Aka bill 101
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_French_Language