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Originally Posted by josh white
The thing I dislike about Suzuki's comments are, as is pointed out he needlessly singles our Calgary, when in Edmonton - why not point out that Edmonton's pidly transit system gets hardly any use, while Calgary's C-Train gets more ridership than Vancouver's Skytrain - despite serving only half the population!!!!!
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First, that was simply an awesome post.
As to this comment, it stems from our being "Toronto West". Calgary becomes an easy target because of its importance to Western Canada, probably the most important city in Western Canada regardless of what Vancouver thinks, and the fact that it is the O&G hub of the country, which makes us an easy target for the environmentalism set.
Trashing Calgary is the easiest thing people like Suzuki can do because the comments will resonate. No other city will generate the same response. How the message is presented is more important than the message itself.