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[European asking] Why does Ontario hate Toronto so much?
The glib answer is that Torontonians think their city is the centre of the world, and people from other cities find that attitude insufferable.
The serious answer is that the current premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, personally hates the Toronto city council for some stuff that happened when he was a councillor and his late brother Rob was mayor. Doug Ford has used his powers as premier to wage a vendetta against Toronto, and it's all apparently legal because of the way the laws governing the relationship between the province and its cities work.
There is no law. The cities have no actual power in Canada. The province grants the cities power so they don't have to manage them. It would be perfectly within the provinces rights to disban the city governments and run the cities themselves.