Amalgamation

[ZEBuilder]

It seems at least from the comments from all of those involved in the entire Peel situation that if a city is capable of standing alone it will ultimately become its own city. Which would mean each one of our cities would inevitably become its own. Even when reading this Record article at least from Mayor Vrbanovic's comments it seems as if it isn't going to be a amalgamation. He says the following in the article "'Nobody’s talking about amalgamation,' he said. 'I have not heard that as a dominant theme from the provincial government; if anything, quite the oppsite.'"

So it seems to be more likely just from everyone's comments that there would be 4 new municipalities coming out of it.
1. Waterloo
2. Kitchener
3. Cambridge
4. Whatever the rest becomes

Even if it were to ultimately become the city of K-W there would still be a very stark divide between the two especially when it comes to each cities view on development and what they allow to be built. Kitchener is definitely alot more active in allowing developers to build up, 28 buildings over 30 floors in some stage of development, meanwhile Waterloo has a total of 1. So if amalgamation were to happen there would still be some differences within the "old" cities that frankly would take awhile to disappear. Inevitably there are more differences that are probably not obvious like those that are occuring in Peel so it will be interesting to see what comes of the region in the next few years.