Posted Feb 19, 2021, 4:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Elkhanan1
Actually, the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH), the extended region wrapping around Toronto, had a population of 9,245,438 already in 2016. Using the expansive American definition of a metro area, rather than the restrictive Canadian definition, a metro Toronto region would be only slightly under that figure today.
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The GGH is just a densely populated area where certain provincial growth policies apply. It was never intended to define any kind of extended metropolitan area. Just because the US has inflated metro areas that doesn't mean that we should too.
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