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Originally Posted by dave8721
Montreal above Washington DC is pretty bizarre as well.
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As mhays said, the GaWC measures the degree of connectivity a city has with as many other cities across the globe as possible in a selection of exportable sectors.
Washington DC has a lot of connection with global cities in a sector that's not really an export industry: government.
Montreal is not Canada's most important city anymore, but it still has the Canadian head offices of some multinationals, it has the actual HQs of companies in a range of sectors that do a lot of international business - like Bombardier aerospace, and it has Canada's biggest cluster in certain areas like biotech.