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Originally Posted by tayser
it's fairly safe to say the Toronto/Montréal dynamic is similar to Sydney/Melbourne but Toronto tends to dominate (mostly) the rest of Canada in a way that Sydney doesn't do here and nor will Melbourne should the population grow larger than Sydney like in all the pre-corona ABS forecasts.
London shits on all the other UK cities from a great height (like Paris does to the rest of the smaller cities in metropolitan France). Australia's top tier cities are more akin to Spain: Madrid and Barcelona on relatively the same level, Milan and Rome in Italy - no singularly dominant city (political, cultural, economic spheres).
From my very subjective take on things, it's a bit blurred in Canada and is somewhere half way between where Sydney/Melbourne and London/versus the rest of the UK are at.
The dynamics between New South Wales and Victoria are similar to Ontario and Québec (1st and 2nd largest state/province in each country, therefore the largest concentrations of the entire country's people are in these areas - with national capitals on the boundary or near the boundary of both jurisdictions in CA and AU) and it's not heroic to say that it's very unlikely another region/state will take over the current role that NSW/VIC and ON/QC fulfil.
Ever since Melbourne came along, it and Sydney have always been backwards and forwards - we've never really seen what's happened by Toronto pulling away from Montréal over the past 40-50 years.
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There are some similarities between Sydney-Melbourne and Toronto-Montreal though one major difference is that Sydney and Melbourne exert influence over the same territory and population whereas Montreal and Toronto each have their own turf that they "rule" over. There is some overlap of course but not even close to what there is between Sydney and Melbourne.
A more analogous example to Toronto-Montreal would be Zurich-Geneva, where Zurich is much larger (twice?) but Geneva is still the uncontested big city for its part of the country. I watch the francophone Swiss national news on occasion and you almost never hear about Zurich. The only Swiss German city that gets frequent mentions is Bern and that's because it is the federal capital.