I would envision the same level of inadequate infrastructure investment. Toronto city would reach ~7.5 million and there would still be no subway expansion or public transit link to the airport. The level of pay for city councillors will increase threefold.
Canada @ 100 Million
So let us imagine Canada’s population to be 100 million; roughly 3 times our current population. Tell us Canada through your eye. It can be anything from population diversity to how big our cities would be. How would Canada be seen on the world scene; in the military scene?
I will go first,
Montréal’s Metro area would comprise of roughly 11.5 million people. The urban build up will be a continuous area from Montreal – Ottawa with Ottawa’s population nearing hitting the 2 million mark.
There would be many mass transportation line connecting Montreal and Ottawa, including a high-speed train.
I will go first,
Montréal’s Metro area would comprise of roughly 11.5 million people. The urban build up will be a continuous area from Montreal – Ottawa with Ottawa’s population nearing hitting the 2 million mark.
There would be many mass transportation line connecting Montreal and Ottawa, including a high-speed train.
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A ton of investment in rapid transit in Metro Vancouver would happen.....the City of Vancouver would reach a population of 1.5 million while the entire region would reach 5 million.
I'd expect most major cities to more or less triple in population, of course. So Toronto would be around 15 million, metro, Montreal around 9 million, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton around 3 million, and so on. Besides the much larger cities, I think things would be more or less the same, though...
I that case Toronto would be at 16.5 million and Montreal at 11.1 million.I'd expect most major cities to more or less triple in population, of course. So Toronto would be around 15 million, metro, Montreal around 9 million,
Vancouver would have 6.6 million and Calgary, Ottawa and Edmonton would all be around the 3 million mark.
I wonder what the Windsor - Montreal corridor would be at.
Lets see the city of Toronto would likely have a A LOT more high rises...
The KWC region will be about 1.3 million. The King Street corridor would be much denser, with downtown Kitchener being vastly improved (ugly parking lots built on, the abandoned factories used, etc). Sprawl would be a bit bigger, but there still won't be sprawl between Kitchener and Guelph. We'll have a premetro line along the King Street corridor, with some LRT lines along a few east-west streets.
Apart from housing prices, which would almost soar to Central-Tokyo-in-1989 levels, I'd like to see it happen.:cheers:
Apart from housing prices, which would almost soar to Central-Tokyo-in-1989 levels, I'd like to see it happen.:cheers:
1.5 million dollars per sq meter????? lol, the Japanese made the US banks seem conservative.....
I could see Windsor at 1 million. Halifax at maybe 2-3.
i could see Halifax at 3 mill and nova scotia at 4 mill. half of the HRM would be developed. the downtown core would have 10 new developents atlest 50m. High speed trains would link montreal to toronto calgary to edmonton and vancouver to calgary.
At triple th population, you would see the smaller cities become more sizeable. Red Deer, Brandon, Lethbridge, Moose Jaw, Grande Prairie, Fort McMurray, Kamloops and all would be the size of Windsor or Hamilton as would similar sized cities. Megalopolis Toronto would likely double but not triple while all the other MUC of Canada would do the same as Toronto.
Diversity will be decided upon where the new sources of people come from.
Diversity will be decided upon where the new sources of people come from.
But would the population really rise to 100 million, even in the next 200 years?
You've got a declining birth rate and global warming (though we could see millions immigrate here from third world nations).
You've got a declining birth rate and global warming (though we could see millions immigrate here from third world nations).
some serious global warming would need to occur to make Canada an attractive new home for 70 million people because certainly Canadians aren't going to start making lots of babies anytime soon.
Either way through immigration it'd be like maybe 40 million from the sub Indian continent, another 40 million or so from assorted Asian countries and still only 6 million claiming French descent and the rest assorted European, West Indies etc.
The amount of dollar stores and discount furniture retailers would increase exponentially.
Seriously it'd be a nightmare and not recognizably Canadian anymore.
Either way through immigration it'd be like maybe 40 million from the sub Indian continent, another 40 million or so from assorted Asian countries and still only 6 million claiming French descent and the rest assorted European, West Indies etc.
The amount of dollar stores and discount furniture retailers would increase exponentially.
Seriously it'd be a nightmare and not recognizably Canadian anymore.
"The Day After Tomorrow" happens, except that it is the tropical regions/southern hemisphere that gets whallopped with continental size hurricane snowstorms....billions will move north, with everything in the southern hemisphere under the influence of a new ice age.:cheers::bash::banana:some serious global warming would need to occur to make Canada an attractive new home for 70 million people because certainly Canadians aren't going to start making lots of babies anytime soon.
Either way through immigration it'd be like maybe 40 million from the sub Indian continent, another 40 million or so from assorted Asian countries and still only 6 million claiming French descent and the rest assorted European, West Indies etc.
The amount of dollar stores and discount furniture retailers would increase exponentially.
Seriously it'd be a nightmare and not recognizably Canadian anymore.
I could see it happening if the pessimists are right about Global Warming. There being large amounts of flooding in low lying regions of the world from rising water levels. Anyways, I would see the whole region from Bowmanville or Newcastle in the east on the northside to Grimsby or Lincoln in the east on the southside being all developed, with about 18 million people or so. When combining Toronto, Hamilton and Oshawa together, today it is 6 136 654 people, and the whole of Canada tripling, I could see the whole Golden Horseshoe area tripling. If you included everything in the GGH, it would be closer to 20-21 million. The area would be high density with large amounts of transit, but still Ontario getting nothing from the government. Ontario would have a population of upwards of 40 million, with 37-38 million being in southern Ontario and 2-3 in the north.
Sorry for being Centre of the Universe-centric /sarcasim
Sorry for being Centre of the Universe-centric /sarcasim
Thunder Bay would probably finally pass the elusive 150,000 mark!
"And then I see [Port Arthur], largest city in the world."
"And then I see [Port Arthur], largest city in the world."
Canada will barely hit 45 million by 2050, after which I'll be too old to care anyway. And considering that world populations will start to level off even before then, I can't even picture Canada @ 100 million... we'll nuke ourselves to extinction way before then.
Ok ok, best case non-armageddon scenario...
BC at a ridiculously crowded 9 million (sorry we can't take any more people), with 6 million in Vancouver metro, will finally join Cascadia after the feds won't pay to help Richmond/YVR pull a Venice. Richmond with a gazillion condos sits under 20 feet of water like Manhattan from the movie AI, Sea Island has a fortress around it, the Falcon line is half obsolete, and YVR terminals 4-6 are in Maple Ridge. All of Vancouver is at least 6 stories high, with towers obliterating Burnaby Mountain and stretching into the canyons of North Vancouver and Coquitlam and all the way up to Squamish. There will also be massive housing experiments like they do in places like the Netherlands, and Surrey with 2 million people living in "the projects" piled into curvaceous mountains. And we'll have the sickest skytrain/subway system by 23rd century standards. Houses, affordable only to the richest of the rich don't exist outside of Point Grey and Shaughnessy. Needless to say, 90% of the population is Chinese.
BC at a ridiculously crowded 9 million (sorry we can't take any more people), with 6 million in Vancouver metro, will finally join Cascadia after the feds won't pay to help Richmond/YVR pull a Venice. Richmond with a gazillion condos sits under 20 feet of water like Manhattan from the movie AI, Sea Island has a fortress around it, the Falcon line is half obsolete, and YVR terminals 4-6 are in Maple Ridge. All of Vancouver is at least 6 stories high, with towers obliterating Burnaby Mountain and stretching into the canyons of North Vancouver and Coquitlam and all the way up to Squamish. There will also be massive housing experiments like they do in places like the Netherlands, and Surrey with 2 million people living in "the projects" piled into curvaceous mountains. And we'll have the sickest skytrain/subway system by 23rd century standards. Houses, affordable only to the richest of the rich don't exist outside of Point Grey and Shaughnessy. Needless to say, 90% of the population is Chinese.
There will be a second megalopolis like in the US with Washington DC to Boston.
It will be from Detroit USA to Montreal.
It will be from Detroit USA to Montreal.
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