Geography 2011A/B Chapter Notes -Imagined Community, Golden Horseshoe
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Government and policy activity to develop that economy. Appropriate scale and size to be natural business unit (ontario vs. golden horseshoe) Policies to enhance ontario"s ability to compete in na & global marketplace. Challenge of ontario as region-state to maintain east-west social, economic, and political union in face of north-south trading nexus. Because the truth is, if you were redrawing the map, and you blanked out history, you would never draw the map the way it is drawn today. You would have a great lakes state, around the greatest set of fresh water lakes in the world and arguably one of the most powerful economic units in the world. So to my canadian friends, i would say, if we do not continue to be mindful and watchful of the issues, if we do not tend our national soul, we will lose it.