h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"In fact, the two cities most important to Canada, Toronto and Ottawa, also have names derived from native words and are also located in a province with a native derived name."

As if it wasn't bad enough that Canada projects a grossly biased favour of the east, its matter-of-factly written into a guide hosted in another country. No one city is most important to Canada, especially not Ottawa, a bland tourist destination and tax haven for federal politicians. Someone should be consulted on the editiing of this entry.

If you think there's some misinformation, why not pop over to the Author's space and discuss it, and then maybe some sort of change can be made.

It would also be cool if you could add something to your personal space so we can greet you properly, just one word would be great!!!

I think the userpage thing should be fixed now. For some reason when I changed computers from college to home, I started logging in to the wrong page. I'm U168675, not U168674.

About the most important thing: I apologize. I'm not Canadian. I'm willing to change it if you want to suggest something more appropriate.

Lochinvar

Don't worry about it too much, Lochinvar. CrosONE has just decided to include you in a petty squabble that usually stays among petty Canadians.

Never mind the fact that Ottawa and Toronto are not eastern, but central Canadian cities, how a country can present a bias in a direction (as if it were sloped that way) is beyond me. Whatever one may think about them as tourist destinations, it's hard to deny that the seat of the federal government and the country's most populous city are important.

Though I agree with CrosONE's idea that no one Canadian city is most important, I'm not sure he believes it himself. Judging by the harshness with which he attacks a (mostly harmless) statement in a guide entry on place naming, and his suggestion that a Canadian be consulted on such statements, he's spending a lot of time imagining himself as a victim of Ottawa and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

You do have to admit that Toronto and Ottawa are two of the largest cities in the most populated province of a rather underpopulated country, thereby giving them quite a bit of power.

Notice how Toronto politics tend to make national news more often that, say, Vancouver or Halifax politics

Isn't Mississauga larger than Ottawa?