Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

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On the other hand, Monaco (pop 31,597), seems to do pretty well.  Ditto the Vatican (pop 764). ;-)

Lillehammer(pop 28,000) managed to land the Olympics in 1994.  The Official "City of London" in the UK only has 8,600.  The City of Oxford only has 162,000 which swells to 244,000 if you count the Metro Oxford area.  In Canada, Saskatoon, the largest City in Saskatchewan has 266,000.

Drawing larger municipal boundaries just means that the regular citizens are that much further away from various types of representation (eg political representation, or a 'suburbs vs downtown' or 'my neighbourhood vs. your neighbourhood' mentality)

haha you just named three of the most historic city states in the world. 

The first one is a playground for the rich along the coast of the mediterranean with no income tax and no industry other than casinos and tourism. Rich and influential people litteral move there so they don't have to pay income tax. 

The second one is the "capital" of the Catholic world. They have religious bank with around 3b in assets and are basically funded by tax free donations from around the globe. 

The third is a global financial hub, located within one of the most recognizable cities in the world. 

If Kitchener was the largest city in the province we would have no problem getting our fair share, but we are barely in the top ten within Ontario. As a single city we would be the close to 4th largest with a real possibility of over taking both brampton & Mississauga within the next 2 decade for #3. 

Those 'suburbs vs downtowns' or my neighbourhood vs your neighbourhoods' issues are already exist within our current government structure. Cambridge litteral turned down a planned recreational complex, because residents of kitchener would be close to it. That decision cost the city roughly $60-80 million more in construction cost, no ice pads and will open almost a decade later then the original proposal.