Art Gallery of Ontario

. . . ! ! Some municipalities considered part of the GTA are not within the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) whose land area (5,904 km2 in 2006) and population (5,928,040 as of the 2016 census) is thus smaller than the land area and population of the GTA planning area for example Oshawa is the centre of its own CMA yet deemed part of the Greater Toronto Area while other municipalities such as New Tecumseth in southern Simcoe County and Mono Township in Dufferin County are included in the Toronto CMA but not in the GTA. These different border configurations result in the GTA's population being higher than the Toronto CMA by nearly one-half million people often leading to confusion amongst people when trying to sort out Toronto's urban population Other nearby urban areas such as Hamilton Barrie or St Catharines-Niagara and Kitchener-Waterloo are not part of the GTA or the Toronto CMA but form their own CMAs near the GTA. Ultimately all the aforementioned places are part of the Greater Golden Horseshoe metropolitan region an urban agglomeration, which is the fourth most populous in North America When the Hamilton Oshawa and Toronto CMAs are agglomerated with Brock and Scugog they have a population of 6,170,072. It is part of the Great Lakes Megalopolis containing an estimated 59 million people in 2011 Municipalities in Greater Toronto Area and related CMAs, Ontario has numerous political parties which run for election the four main parties are the centre-right Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) the centre-left Ontario Liberal Party and the Ontario Green Party the Progressive Conservatives Liberals and New Democrats have each governed the province while the Greens elected their first-ever member to the Legislative Assembly in 2018 The 2018 provincial election resulted in a Progressive Conservative majority under Doug Ford who was sworn in to office on June 29 Urban areas.

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