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Toronto, Canada Facts and Information
For over 4.7 million people, Toronto, Canada is their home town. Source: the year 2000 census of the Greater Toronto Area "GTA". Within a three hour drive from downtown Toronto, another eight million people live, work and prosper. The Greater Toronto freeway system is well maintained and links with major freeways connecting all of Canada and the USA. Toronto is the largest financial center in Canada and fourth largest in all of North America. Only the American cities of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are more powerful financially than Toronto, Canada. Toronto is the cultual, educational, entertainment, 'high tech', financial, commercial and industrial center of Canada. English-Canadian is the primary language spoken in Toronto and throughout Canada. The laws of Toronto and Canada are based on British common law and English parliamentary system of government, with the exception of the French state of Quebec which is located over three hundred miles to the north and east of Toronto, Ontario. Immigrant minority groups speak an additional, 100 languages in the Greater Toronto Region. |