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Canadian Visitor
But in the figurative sense, those 500,000 Detroiters would instantly have health insurance, the National Child Benefit, a higher minimum wage, better public transit, their employment rate would climb, their high school graduation rate would climb, their poverty and crime rates would decline.
If you shifted 500,000 Winnipeg residents to Detroit they would be apoplectic at the state of things, and shut the State down with a massive general strike and block every highway and runway until the State of Michigan capitulated and fixed things.