As a former Ottawan, I am sympathetic to the concern that the provincial government is showering the GTA in transit while ignoring the rest of the province.
However, terms like "deserve" get thrown about, and as the Rob Ford saga showed us, this is the wrong way to approach this question.
Firstly,
@TheHonestMaple, West Harbour has 2WAD service - a massive win that I did not see coming even in 2020. From an ideal network planning perspective, is 2WAD service to Hamilton Centre better? Sure, but even in a reasonable cost country, CPKC doesn't want us there, and widening would still be $100s of millions, let alone at the cost of modern Canadian infrastructure. We'd be much better off funding the buses to go into the
new MSF, and feeding the shiny new 2WAD service (a concern I have
voiced in the past - woah, has it really been a year?)
Also, the secondary cities have to
want transit (and for the record, VIVA capital funding should stop until York Region gets serious about operations). Kitchener is doing fine, though ION Phase II is
5x or more of what it should cost, but when I jokingly suggested last year that Hamilton was "recancelling" the LRT, I
wasn't really joking; Ottawa is
self imploding and London
doesn't think bus lanes to Western is a good idea.
There is more investment coming. Confederation GO and the West Harbour tie-in is close to being a meme here on UT, but it'll happen, and the province
does seem to want to fund Hamilton LRT this time around. Talking about who "deserves" transit, and using emotional arguments, takes away from a serious conversation about where the limited supply of transit money can be best put to use.
As for reverse peak service into Hamilton, I can only say that there are (urban) projects, even in Hamilton, that will receive higher ridership first - the few billions it would take for new connections into Hamilton Centre, as well as the job density for a mass-scale reverse GO service to pencil out, doesn't really exist.
And I concur - I hate it when I feel I have to defend Bloomington GO.