Ok. 100 individual taxpayers in a small town. They send their taxes to Ottawa. They pooled together do not pay enough taxes to provide for services needed. 5 million taxpayers in the GTA. They send their tax money collectively to Ottawa. That money is used to buy the necessary things in that small town they could otherwise not afford. So the taxes from people in the GTA supported that small towns services.. Urban Ontario , subsidizes rural Ontario. It's a numbers game.