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Originally Posted by north 42
Since when is Guelph a part of the Kitchener-Waterloo CMA? You can’t just combine CMA’s that are close to each other and use that population figure as an official number.
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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.