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Who is this person? Some sort of transportation planner? An urban affairs expert? No - the extent of her credentials appear to be that she visited Canada for a few weeks.
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And that means her opinion doesn't mean anything? You can ask her these questions herself btw, I posted her Facebook earlier, she does respond (well perhaps only if you're not a total asshole).
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Considering that, why is this even an article? It's not enlightening, it's not well-informed, it's just the whining anecdotes of one tourist out of millions (why does this deserve to be published out of all of those others?). There are plenty of criticisms to be made of Canada's car culture & suburban planning - but this is just poorly written, hyperbolic, condescending, unhelpful rubbish.
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These questions should be directed at the lady from the Ottawa Citizen (who is Canadian) her contact info can be found with the article.
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Regardless of the content, it's a sad state of affairs when any idiot on the internet can have their opinion published by a major media source.
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This thread really didn't need any more insecurity from Canadians.
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Huh? Montreal is twice the population of Copenhagen. Vancouver is slightly larger.
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TWICE the population?! Don't complain about Americans overstating their metro areas vs Canadian ones when you are perfectely comfortable to do the same with Canadian ones.
It's not so simple and straightforward. Just like Canadian CMAs are more strictely defined than US MSAs, different definitions exist for the Copenhagen area. Who's to say which one is the right one?
Montreal has 3,8 million
Vancouver has 2,4 million
Copenhagen has 2 million (2,4 according to the OECD)
Copenhagen-Malmo has 2,6 million
Copenhagen-Malmo-Helsingborg has 3 million
And the whole Øresund Region has 3,8 million