Posted Mar 29, 2010, 9:06 PM
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You're all forgetting the examples in and around Edmonton which I believe lend credence to fact that no, they can stay autonomous.
St. Albert especially, is just a stones throw from Edmonton, pretty much across a field now, and its still a separate city of 57,700 people.
Also, Strathcona county and Sherwood Park are just a little further out and has a population of 61,600 .. so no, I don't believe there is any way to force a city the size of those or Airdrie to become a part of another larger metropolis.
That said, smaller towns and county ares its easier to get provincial approval to just annex them, people will possibly complain, but its a few hundred people so ... meh.... but with bigger jurisdictions you get into the psychological aspect of how people identify themselves and the uproar about "I moved out here to not be living in the big city" even though these same people obviously chose to not move _that far_ out so as to get the benefits of the big city.
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