I suppose there's an argument to be made in that many Canadians think Toronto gets a disproportionate amount of tax money; certainly that funding is something that everyone wants, no matter where you live in Canada.
The original phrase at the beginning of this thread was "jealous of our success". Whenever I've heard that phrase, it seems to me to that people are implying a desire to be like us or a desire to have what we have. As in the comparison with the US, I find it overwhelmingly false. Small-town Canadians want nothing to do with this city; they might visit to take in the sights, but many would rather die than consider moving here.
In the same vein, how many of us would consider moving to the US? Who wants everything they have? Who wants to be American? Yet the vast majority of Americans overwhelmingly believes that the rest of the world envies them, wants to be like them, wants to have what they have, and wants to move there. (This is not my assumption, but rather from a study a year or two ago.)
I was racking my brain, trying to figure out what China had to do with this discussion. I just figured it out now.