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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
Provincial governments do just that all the time. Something like the GTHA is used more for regional planning purposes than the Toronto CMA is - which really only exists as a statistical relic for StatsCan (the problem here being StatsCan's inflexibility on combining or amending adjacent CMAs regardless of sufficient criteria being met or actual on-the-ground realities). I believe BC does the same thing with respect to the Lower Mainland as well.
Adding Guelph to the Kitchener CMA on the other hand has a bit less precedent.
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Right, I understand the Toronto grouping, but I think the KW-Guelph grouping is still a bit of a stretch, although maybe not in the near future with the way the region is growing.