[FutureMayor]

Wouldn't that be some bright hue of orange?

The official colour of the City of Mississauga is dark blue, orange is Mississauga Transit.

Is anyone from Oshawa/Whitby/Clarington here? Do they feel 'special' at all because of their CMA status?

Nobody is asking to feel "special" as you put it. However, Mississauga Economic Development office would love that type of information to use. However, they are currently doing a good job without it. Mississauga is already the location of choice for many national and international firms.

Louroz

 

[scarberiankhatru]

"She wants them to collect our numbers separately, independent from the rest of the GTA, so that the City can use them properly and officially to crow to the rest of the world -- specifically international businesses -- about Mississauga being the place to be.
The numbers are also used by the City to determine the need for transit and housing, as well as fire and other services, so accurate numbers will make these allocations much more efficient."

So what additional data exactly does Mississauga need than all the census data collected in Mississauga specific to the municipality of Mississauga? I don't think CMA status will cause any changes to be made to the surveys themselves, so what additional or more accurate data will be collected? All I can think of is that the numbers might be crunched further and then released "officially", but surely Mississauga can do that themselves if they're looking for something specific?

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Separate datasets can be ordered through Statscan in any event.

AoD

 

[SD2]

After all, seeing all those people in their "native costumes" must have been a shock in itself!

[Ducks after that low blow]

lol

There shouldn't have been that much culture shock...there are a lot of East Indians in Mississauga.

 

[Darkstar416]

There shouldn't have been that much culture shock...there are a lot of East Indians in Mississauga.

Indeed, there's a thriving community in Peel. Which is why it was strange that Hazel used that language when describing who frequents Mississauga hospitals a few years back.

 

[adma]

Back to the States: I think the prototypical example of a CMA "seceding" from a larger one was Nassau-Suffolk (i.e. Long Island) in the 70s...

 

[SD2]

Indeed, there's a thriving community in Peel. Which is why it was strange that Hazel used that language when describing who frequents Mississauga hospitals a few years back.

:rollin

Thanks for the reminder...I totally missed the original reference!

 

[JohnnyStalenko]

Mississauga - as many suburbs - continues to act as a parasite...

...it wants political independence, but not economic independence...it derives it's wealth from the core, but gives nothing back...

...what it needs to remember is that it owes its very existence - now and especially the past - to Toronto...b/c without Toronto, it would never have existed in the first place!...b/c where would it's population have worked when it was a fledgling community?!!!!!...

...in other words, it has no problem growing and deriving it's wealth from Toronto, but wants nothing much else to do with it beyond that...

...even now (although the share of employment has shifted)...more people 'depend' on Toronto (as they always have) to feed their families...

...but over the years, rather than thank the City of Toronto for all the wealth opportunity it has provided it's residents, it instead now tries it's best to steal companies away from the city that gave it it's birth in the first place...

...just like all the residents who've lived there and worked in Toronto...they've taken from Toronto their wealth and then spent it instead in Mississauga...

...parasitic for sure...

...so as far as being seperate, they need to realize that they can't have it both ways...they've never been self-sufficient and/or independent...true independence is about exactly that...be independent in EVERY way!

...like a kid who wants to be independent from the parents, but still expects to come home whenever he/she needs something...

 

[Mislav]

I liked this quote. Everyone is home-town proud, but realistically is there really any significant difference between Mississauga and the old boroughs of Toronto and new regions of the 905 beyond arbitrary jurisdictional boundaries?

Hmmm, there is quite a difference between housing in Etobicoke and Mississauga. The newer Mississauga subdivisions have all been built so that the houses look similar with very little variety ie. one contractor was responsible for the development of an entire subdivision street by street. This is not so much the case with Etobicoke

 

[jeicow]

The newer Mississauga subdivisions have all been built so that the houses look similar with very little variety ie. one contractor was responsible for the development of an entire subdivision street by street. This is not so much the case with Etobicoke

It all depends on where you go. Southern Mississauga is similar to most parts of Etobicoke as the two were developed around the same time. The new northern parts are the more cookie-cutter areas, a lot more like the new parts of Scarborough.

 

[jeicow]

Mississauga - as many suburbs - continues to act as a parasite...

Toronto is the one asking for bail-outs from the province

...it wants political independence, but not economic independence...it derives it's wealth from the core, but gives nothing back...

The millions that are taken from Mississauga to subsidize Toronto's Social Services I think is enough. Btw, what is this "core" that Mississauga gets its wealth from?

...what it needs to remember is that it owes its very existence - now and especially the past - to Toronto...b/c without Toronto, it would never have existed in the first place!...b/c where would it's population have worked when it was a fledgling community?!!!!!...

While the 50,000+ people living in what is equivlant to Mississauga today during the 1920s worked pretty independently without Toronto in farming, logging, and fishing. Stupid fact, approx 10% of the masses in the Royal British navy during most of the late 1800s came from Port Credit.

...in other words, it has no problem growing and deriving it's wealth from Toronto, but wants nothing much else to do with it beyond that...

It does have the only major airport for the region, and Toronto isn't eager to get it's own, despite the fact it has two that could easily be expanded to handle all of the city's air passengers.

...even now (although the share of employment has shifted)...more people 'depend' on Toronto (as they always have) to feed their families...

?

...but over the years, rather than thank the City of Toronto for all the wealth opportunity it has provided it's residents, it instead now tries it's best to steal companies away from the city that gave it it's birth in the first place...

So you mean the 50 million that Peel Region has to pay to Toronto to subsidize its social services isn't thanks enough? So your blaming Mississauga for being an affordable place to set up offices. The problem with TO is that they have the cheapest residential taxes in the friggin' GTA and to make up for it they charge the hell out of offices. No wonder they all leave.

...just like all the residents who've lived there and worked in Toronto...they've taken from Toronto their wealth and then spent it instead in Mississauga...

So people shouldn't have the right to choose where to spend their money then?

...so as far as being seperate, they need to realize that they can't have it both ways...they've never been self-sufficient and/or independent...true independence is about exactly that...be independent in EVERY way!

Okay?

...like a kid who wants to be independent from the parents, but still expects to come home whenever he/she needs something...

So you mean like how TO has to get bail-outs every year from the province. Sounds more like a begging child than Mississauga.

 

[Canuck 36]

Excellent suggestion.

 

[miketoronto]

Toronto has to get tough with its suburbs like Mississauga, the way Chicago does.

Toronto should annex all the land that Pearson sits on(if we where able to, I know the province would have to allow it). But that is what Chicago does, when the airport expands, they just go in there and take over the surrounding suburb. That shows the suburbs whos the boss.

Mississauga has to understand they are the child, and Toronto is the parents. Mississauga must listen to us, and be glad they are here, because its Toronto that fathered them.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

jeicow:

The millions that are taken from Mississauga to subsidize Toronto's Social Services I think is enough. Btw, what is this "core" that Mississauga gets its wealth from?

The core, meaning the core city - Toronto - from which the locational advantages of Mississauga derives from. To deny that would be to say Timmins had the same potential for growth as any locale in the GTA.

As to the issue of subsidizing Toronto's social services - perhaps Peel would love to take a pro-rata portion of the urban poor in the GTA?

While the 50,000+ people living in what is equivlant to Mississauga today during the 1920s worked pretty independently without Toronto in farming, logging, and fishing.

Where would most of the products go to, I wonder?

It does have the only major airport for the region, and Toronto isn't eager to get it's own, despite the fact it has two that could easily be expanded to handle all of the city's air passengers.

That's the most idiotic comment I've heard for awhile - easily expanded to handle all of the city's air passengers? Since when did either the Island Airport or Downsview had runways (or will get runways with ease) long enough to handle wide-body aircraft?

So you mean the 50 million that Peel Region has to pay to Toronto to subsidize its social services isn't thanks enough? So your blaming Mississauga for being an affordable place to set up offices. The problem with TO is that they have the cheapest residential taxes in the friggin' GTA and to make up for it they charge the hell out of offices. No wonder they all leave.

Mississauga is more or less mortaging it's future via greenfield developments. Now that they are more or less exhausted, we'll see how low the taxes can stay, vis-a-vis infrastructural replacement costs that are slowly catching up with the municipality. The situation is no more or less different in many ways from the inner suburban municipalities in the ex-Metro.

AoD

 

[Canuck 36]

It's always cute when people from Mississauga are proud of their airport, and suggest Toronto should get their own.

I just want to pat those people on the head and offer them a cookie.