Thanos Thanos:
The biggest threat to national unity in this country will always be the contempt that the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal corridor has for the West. I have no idea why they think the way they do, or where the near open hatred they have for us comes from, but as a Canadian practically nothing else among all our various national pathologies makes me sadder than the Eastern attitude for the West. You'd think we were all bloody Nazis out here the way they talk and think about us.
I recall at 17 moving to Vancouver in 1973 and being pulled over by an RCMP officer on Marine Drive.
He told me I was in Canada now and to drive like a Canadian after handing me back my Quebec driver's licence.
The entire country is divided and seem to have contempt for one another.
My cousin made jokes in the nineties when I returned to Vancouver and told me to move back...lol..
Mostly I really think it's the west who has viewed Torontonians and Montrealers with this view. It could well be based in a misdirected and uncalled for sense of insecurity and inferiority .
I think the west is more apt to be concerned with labelling the East as the east labelling the west as anything more than a beautiful place to visit.