Thanks. Take out the while and tweak the tenses; still true.
Montreal dug it's subways with the help of the socialist PQ governments—Levesque's among them. Toronto had to fill in what it dug, under orders of Mike Harris.
Better? Does a brain-dead idea like filling in a subway count towards being a zombie?
Yeah but.......
Toronto ows A LOT to Rene Levesques and his band of merry socialist separatists.
It was Rene who enacted Quebec Appartheid and drove hundreds of thosands of disenfranchised people 5 hours down the 401. They brought their talent, their money, their businesses, their corporate headquarters to Toronto. Montreal was destroyed by Levesque and it has never recovered even to this day. (The population of Montreal is stll not what it was in 1976 when Rene was elected - and that is a statistical fact.)
Levesques (From the Gaspe) and the rest of his Quebec City "La Purelain" despised Montreal because for the most part Montreal never bought into his "we're so fucked over by the Anglo Bastards" line. Montreal was way too cosmopolitan for them (the Separatists) and they set out to show Montreal who was boss (Quebec City). (And I do believe this is EXACTLY what the separatists wanted - Ethnic Clensing of Montreal. Force the Anglo Bastards out of Montreal, those who remain will be Francophones and they will vote for us. Sure, it wil cost us a lot, but in the end, it will be worth it.) The Montreal refugees left because they wanted to live in a city that was inclusive, not exclusive. Montreal was "get the fuck out you Anglo bastards, Toronto was "welcome aboard".
In the end, the PQ'ists may have bought Montreal a subway, but the price was the decimation of their city to second place. Toronto vaulted ahead of Montreal in the 70's and never looked back. Montreal will never regain the crown as the No. 1 city in Canada. Ever.
Thanks Rene.
In truth, they should rename University Avenue "Boulevard Rene Levesques" in honour of the many who did more for Toronto than any other Canadian politician in history.