Canadian Population Big Cities The Rest

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Canadian Population Big Cities / The Rest
Source The Centre for Spatial Economics
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The Concerns of our House of Commons
Urban Issues
Rural Issues

• housing
• HIV / AIDS
• transportation
• public transit
• air pollution/smog
• homelessness
• Vancouver
• Toronto
• Montreal
• Calgary
• Edmonton
• biotech industry
• science and technology
• automobile industry
• high tech
• pollution
• urban communities
• sustainable cities initiative
• food banks

• farm income crisis
• foot and mouth disease
• Farm Credit Corporation
• grain transportation
• agricultural subsidies
• seasonal workers
• agriculture
• gun control
• farms/farmers
• fisheries
• beef
• forest industry
• mining industry
• dairy industry
• grain industry
• curling
• salmon (Atlantic Pacific)
• Canadian wheat board
• Atlantic Canada

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The Diminishing Value of an Urban Vote
A Member of Parliament represents an average of
99,691 people in Canada. In a Non-Urban riding,
an MP represents an average of 86,463 people. In
an Urban riding, an MP represents an average of
118,835 people. In a Toronto riding, an MP
represents an average of 120,074 people.
One Toronto vote is worth 0.72 Non-Urban votes
sources Statistics Canada 2001 Census The
Centre for Spatial Economics Elections Canada
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Golden Horseshoe Western New York
City of Toronto Boundary
source GHK, Urban Strategies Inc.
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North American Metropolitan Areas
Average Annual Absolute Change
Projected Rank in 2022
Metropolitan Area
Population 2001
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange County Golden Horseshoe
Western New York Chicago-Gary-Kenosha Washington
-Baltimore San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose Golden
Horseshoe Ontario Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlant
ic City Boston-Worcester-Lawrence Detroit-Windsor
Seattle-Vancouver Dallas-Fort Worth Houston-Galves
ton-Brazoria Atlanta San Diego
Tijuana Miami-Fort Lauderdale Montréal
20,191,953 16,315,766 9,582,887 8,975,790 7,505,56
9 6,998,284 6,785,130 6,029,633 5,946,635 5,811,30
8 5,654,124 5,079,782 4,636,089 3,987,552 3,805,42
5 3,803,170 3,515,552
69,384 152,399 109,867 64,235 68,250 64,855 117,60
0 10,746 28,174 30,685 95,415 93,925 78,449 93,497
35,880 53,732 22,476
1 2  3 4 5 6 3 9 8 11 15 7 10 12 16 13 16
Source The Centre for Spatial Economics,
Statistics Canada, US Census, INEGI, Mexico
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Sources of Funds for New Cultural Facilities
Projected Cost
Provincial Contribution
Federal Contribution
Balance
Canadian Opera Company 150 25
25 100 Roy Thompson Hall 20 2
2 16 Art Gallery of Ontario 120 24
24 72 Royal Conservatory of Music 50
10 10 30 National Ballet
School 87 20 20 47 Gardiner
Museum of Ceramic Art 15 2.5
2.5 10 Royal Ontario Museum 160 30
30 100 Total 602 113.5
113.5 375 Percentage of full cost
19 19 62
millions
Source City of Toronto - Culture
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