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I found this tidbit of information. For those who like to point the finger at the east for their troubles, your anger should be directed at Toronto.

According to the CBC, the Canadian Broadcorping Castration, and Stats Can, there are 37.6 million people in Canada. The figures below represent the population of the GTA vs the rest of Ontario. Also, the square km of each.

GTA + Hamilton -- 7.9 million -- 7,124 km²
Rest of Ontario -- 7.0 million -- 1,076,000 km²

The GTA represents less than 1% of Ontario's total land mass, but has 53% of its population. Of the 7.9 million people in the GTA, some are either too young to vote, or don't bother.

As of last election, the GTA had 57 federal seats, or about 17% of the 338 seats in Canada.

49 of those 57 seats are held by the Liberals.

The Liberals hold 157 seats nationally. 31% of those - about 1/3 - are from the GTA, an area that is less than 1% of Ontario's total land mass. And probably 0.3 or 0.4% of Canada's total land mass.

Crunching the numbers, 1/3 of the sitting Liberal government was elected from an extremely small geographic area - the GTA. While it may be easy to blame "the East" for Canada's troubles, Toronto wields a huge chunk of the power. Those of us in "the rest of Ontario", do not like being lumped into the group who is to blame.

It is the large number of people in the GTA that continues to be a thorn in the side of the Conservatives, the NDP, etc. The Liberals know this, and that is why they spend so much time campaigning in the large urban centres.