Population and Housing

[MacBerry]

StatsCan didn't decide the areas, politicians did.

No.


Statscan uses the municipalities as fixed by the province and then decides the metropolitan areas on commuter traffic. So if Brampton is included in the Hamilton CMA, that means a large number of people commute from Brampton to Hamilton for work.

"To be included in the CMA or CA, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the core, as measured by commuting flows derived from previous census place of work data."

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/92-1...ef-eng.htm

Really???  they can do what they want:

"[b]4. Spatial contiguity rule:[/b] 
CSDs that do not meet a commuting flow threshold may be included in a CMA or CA, and CSDs that do meet a commuting flow threshold may be excluded from a CMA or CA"

Get out of StatsCan Jail card