Mayor David Miller says that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government routinely ignored or discounted advice from Toronto in the run-up to the G20 summit - including Miller's own, repeated pleas to hold the event at the grounds of Exhibition Place.

The resulting chaos may have proved to be a lesson, Miller says, since federal officials are consulting now with the city on the issue of compensation for damages to people and property in violent protests at the G20.

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