Population and Housing

[tomh009]

Burlington is only part of The Hammer for political CMA data only. Burlington is part of Halton Region for planning and policy. The population  of Burlington inflates the importance and CMA population of Hamilton and is  therefore imply a paper inclusion. There is no reason to include Burlington in the Hamilton data except it makes the "CMA" seem to be larger and important.

MY point is it is time to change the CMA to reflect a reality that Hamilton is not what the CMA purports to tell. Propping up CMA Hamilton is last century. StatsCan didn't decide the areas, politicians did.  Just change the data to reflect 21stC realities that Hamilton is not what politicians want everyone to believe. CMA fairy tales.

This is patently false. The criteria for inclusion in a CMA are well-defined and are not even remotely political except in so much as where municipal boundaries lie.

Some data:
Employed labour force in Burlington: 95,975
Residents of Burlington working in Hamilton + Grimsby: 8,655 + 165 = 8,820
Residents of Hamilton + Grimsby working in Burlington: 24,505 + 1,345 = 25,850
Total interchange: 34,670 (36.1% of Burlington employed labour force)

Picking nits here, but those 8,820 people are not employed in Burlington so I don't think they should be included when calculating a percentage of Burlington-employed labour. Or else they should at least be added to the denominator as well.

Otherwise, imagine community A with 500 jobs and 1000 residents. 250 residents work locally but another 750 work in Community B. And 250 Community B residents work in Community A. Now the total interchange is 1000, or 200% of the Community A-employed labour force. Does that make sense as an interchange percentage?