Living in a hotel in Scarborough, parking car at one of the subway stations for $4 a day, getting a daily transit pass for $12, Toronto becomes easy to navigate as most attractions are accessible by subways, buses and street cars.
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada. The 8.5 million residents make up approximately a quarter of Canada's entire population; Over half of the city's residents were born outside Canada.
We took an Ontario Legislative Building tour. This was a free and very informative tour. We were allowed to sit in the gallary to observe a live house debate.
There was a gold mace placed in the middle pointing to the government direction (house majority side), several non-partisan legislators also sat in the middle wearing black robes. On the speaker seat was a lady, who was the deputy for the speaker on leave. A few very young kids sat around the speaker's seat, serving as Pages carrying out assistant jobs like presenting drinks to the representatives, delivering documents, etc. These kids were carefully selected from various schools and were serving for a few weeks and tutored by teachers while on duty.
The tour guide also informed us there is only house assembly in the provincial level, and a governor, nominated by the prime minister to carry out the British monarch's ceremonial duties. There is a general governor and two assemblies on the national level.
The Ontario congress is made up of professional politicians who are paid with salaries and benefits.
There is a painting hanging in the hall about the very first Canadian assembly held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, which we visited a few days back when we were at Charlottetown.
In the US, to be independent from England was regarded as a noble concept, while in Canada, it's the very opposite.
Other notable attractions shown in the video include:
CN Tower
Rogers Centre
Ripley's Aquarium of Canada
Lakefront and Harbourfront
St Lawrence Market
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
Toronto City Hall (Old and New)
Eaton Center
Casa Loma
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