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Originally Posted by Summerville
Moncton is a hub city, but it is a hub because of its location, as opposed to its population. Its like Regina as a hub city for the prairies. At some point, companies may choose to have warehouses where the majority of the population is.
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But Moncton is growing. We added 8,800 souls last year. Our annualized growth rate last year had us growing by 5.5%, the highest in Canada (and the highest of any CMA in the last 20 years). Halifax had the second highest growth rate in Canada last year.
This thread is not about Moncton, but I would like to point out that our industrial parks are growing at such a rate that we are expanding one park, and developing a new park because we are running out of serviceable land to sell to developers. Walmart just officially opened their Atlantic Canadian distribution centre in in the Caledonia Industrial park last week.
To broaden things further, Saint John is doubling their container ports capacity this year and has purchased two new cranes. When all is said and done, SJ will rival Halifax in terms of container capacity. Port Saint John already outperforms Halifax in terms of gross tonnage.
Halifax is not the be all and the end all for Atlantic Canada (nor should it be). I'm fine with Halifax being the regional metropolis, but this does not mean it has to win at absolutely everything.
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