Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

[Czech_pivo]

The Premier and the Mayor want to double the size of the province in 20 years. With 500K more in Halifax, making it a million person city.

Depends on economic and political factors and the actual delivery of these defence announcements but it might be possible...

Seriously?!
That’s 25,000/yr, that’s like 8-11,000 new homes in the greater HRM region per year. Can you build out the infrastructure to handle that every year?
Adding 100-150k over 20yrs would be quite the achievement.

 

[PrairieFella]

The Premier and the Mayor want to double the size of the province in 20 years. With 500K more in Halifax, making it a million person city.

Depends on economic and political factors and the actual delivery of these defence announcements but it might be possible...

Its honestly a good thing. We need to spread the population around Canada more. No reason Halifax shouldnt be Winnipeg size in 30ish years. A million seems a stretch though.

 

[Good2Golf]

Seriously?!
That’s 25,000/yr, that’s like 8-11,000 new homes in the greater HRM region per year. Can you build out the infrastructure to handle that every year?
Adding 100-150k over 20yrs would be quite the achievement.

That’s 3.5% annual growth. Is that unreasonable?

 

[daftandbarmy]

Its honestly a good thing. We need to spread the population around Canada more. No reason Halifax shouldnt be Winnipeg size in 30ish years. A million seems a stretch though.

Good luck with that

 

[PrairieFella]

Good luck with that

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Yes and? Whats your point? IRCC has plenty of incentives to get people to move places. Thats how they get immigrants all the way to Yellowknife. If there's a will and jobs, there's a way.

 

[MilEME09]

Good luck with that

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And if we had a modern cross country transportation network, that line would mean much. When below that line was first settled, getting to BC could take weeks, now its a 3 to 4 day drive. 3 days by train or a few hours by planes. Just imagine it if we put a high speed rail route from toronto all the way to calgary for example. Would change movement patterns quickly.

 

[Czech_pivo]

That’s 3.5% annual growth. Is that unreasonable?

That sort of growth rate would be less than Calgary's growth from 1996 - 2016 in the middle of its oil boom when it saw around 150% growth.

There are 3 modern examples in Canada of that sort of growth - Brampton, Calgary and Milton, Milton having the lowest at 30%. All 3 of those locations had 3 features that allowed them to grow that rapidly. The surrounding land to grow on as overwhelming flat, agricultural land that help facility rapid build out. All of them had access to large amounts of fresh water. All of them had soil conditions that allowed for easy of use to insert water/gas/sewer lines. In the case of both Brampton and Milton, large scale home builders were already located in the GTA, with all the workers/skills/resources already in place for rapid build out. I do don't believe that the HRM area has any of these conditions available to them.

I'm not saying that its not possible, I'm saying that the odds are stacked against them as it currently stands. Major amounts of cash is required for the needed infrastructure build out. I would love to see it happen though.