[haljackey]

The bad part is London's CMA is no longer part of Canada's 10 biggest metros.

In my opinion, London doesn't have a metro anyway... There's a city and farms around it. Counting St. Thomas in it is borderline, as it is quite a ways away (most metros have different cities within the same urban area) and there are no good/important transportation/transit connections with it.

I think being out of the top 10 will be have a negative effect on the city. London is normally overlooked by many in this country, including politicians. Scrapping it from the top 10 will make it even less important.

London's CMA is now 474,786, a change of +3.7% over 2006. Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge now has just over 2,000 people more than London at 477,160 (a change of +5.7%).

I would have liked to see London grow some more, but we all know with the recession and stuff this city has kind of stagnated for a few years.

St. Thomas grew more than London because there was a huge building boom there between 2006 and 2009. The city has sprawled out considerably, and many people still live there despite the grim economic situation in St. Thomas.