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Originally Posted by toaster
1.2 Million is the Ottawa CMA.
Gatineau and Orleans are included in that number. In fact, Orleans is also included in the 883,391 people that make up the City of Ottawa. Trying to inflate numbers to make us appear bigger is not a good strategy.
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I don't think that's what he was doing. "It's population is 1.2 million with 300,000 in Gatineau and 100,000 in Orléans" to me is simply stating the total population of the region and pointing out that 300,000 of that 1.2 million is in Gatineau and another 100,000 is in Orléans.
Past discussions on SBP have often made mention of the fact that it is downright inconvenient for people in Gatineau and Orleans to get to, so I think he was just pointing out that about a third of the metropolitan population has a very inconvenient journey to get to SBP, whereas a downtown location would be far more convenient overall to the entire metropolitan population.