I think Canadians outside Ontario sometimes have trouble grokking just how big Toronto and its suburbs really are.
The GTA's population has just passed 7M. That's over a million more people than there are in all of British Columbia, and nearly as many as in the three Prairie provinces combined.
But still, the GTA contains well under half of Ontario's total population.
That huge population imbalance creates many grievances across Canada, some legit, some facetious. And it makes life easier for western separatists, who can ignore the population difference and misleadingly claim that Ontario gets more than its "fair share" (of whatever).
