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Originally Posted by JHikka
Have to take Tosin's work with a grain of salt as it's entirely speculative.
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No doubt.
Tosin's work certainly isn't authoritative, but he is diligent. His major assumption is that growth rates between censuses remain constant. This of course is not always the case, but for Moncton I think his numbers are fairly valid.
Even a casual observer of the annual CMA population estimates provided by Statistics Canada would see that Moncton was going to crack the 150k barrier sometime this year. My own personal estimate was that it was going to happen this summer, so I think Tosin's prediction of a current Moncton CMA population of 150,245 is reasonably valid.