[ssiguy]

That population growth estimate for Edmonton could be right on the money, grossly underestimated, or wildly optimistic. This is what happens when Ottawa increases it's intake by 3X without any rhyme or reason............it makes planning next to impossible. Planners can only plan if they have reasonably expected demographic growth to work with and Trudeau has thrown all those plans out the window for every area and city in the country. Edmonton is growing at a numbing 5% a year. Who in their right mind could have imagined that a few years ago?

From housing to social services to schools to hospitals to roads to transit to sewers to libraries to parks to community centres.......... Trudeau has made planning for these essentials completely impossible and then he wonders why cities have such a backlog in needed infrastructure including one's essential to building housing.