The Province of Toronto?

Who knew: A Progressive Conservative MPP, of the same stock who had transformed what used to be Metropolitan Toronto into the City of Toronto, wants it separated to form its own province? The same party also came up with the idea of uniting various municipalities in York Region into pasteurized pockets with names like "York North" and "York South", and is trying to win the rural electorate by some sort of separation.

First of all, this is the first ever instance of separation, proposed by someone else, rather than as an act of self-determination.

Mel Lastman, the first mayor of the megacity, had played with the idea before, but it would seem that people will be a bit more serious to the idea this time around - there are newspaper rumours where London could usurp Toronto as Ontario's provincial capital.

Would I be a happy camper as a citizen who is no longer Ontarian? Absolutely not.

Said MPP was worried about how urban issues have been dealt with in more often a manner than rural issues such as agriculture. He may be correct in saying that people need a more representative voice that includes the farmer et al, but isn't that the point of a county-level government?

This proposal would exclude the rest of the GTA from separating - what kind of a twisted divide is that?

No one should separate because of such solvable problems like this, and said MPP should be reprimanded for trying to force the Ontario out of Ontarians.