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Dismissive Tories lack urban savvy

Royson James

Mar 15, 2008 04:30 AM

Dwight Duncan versus Jim Flaherty. Dalton McGuinty as opposed to Stephen Harper. Provincial government and federal government.

Compare them and weep, Greater Toronto. At every point of measured weighting, the latter suffers by comparison with the former. And urban Canada, especially the Toronto area, feels the fallout.

Ontario under McGuinty is far from perfect in its dealings with cities and towns, the urban units that define where we live. But McGuinty, in word and ...

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