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Originally Posted by GGG
The bolded portion is a huge difference between Toronto and Alberta. Calgary consistantly polls lower on all of those questions.
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Calgary outperforms Toronto on several important environmental factors however. Toronto still dumps raw sewage into lake Ontario, and trucks its waste outside of the country to Michigan.
As a Calgarian who actually lives in Toronto, I think I could speak with some authority on the matter. Table 5 is right - Calgarians and Torontonians are more alike than perhaps either would want to admit. Of course there are some differences, but Table's assertion that a Calgarian has more in common in terms of day-to-day city-living concerns and attitudes with a Torontonian, than a Calgarian shares with someone from Didsbury is true. More specifically urban dwellers in both cities and suburban dwellers in each city are brethren.
Calgary's also on a very similar trajectory as Toronto in terms of ethnic diversity.
I think the real 'divide' in this country is not east-to-west, but urban-suburban-rural.
National or Federal voting patterns in this country have far more to do with voting for the 'home team' than any substantial ideological differences.