06-20-2020, 08:43 AM
(06-19-2020, 11:14 PM)jeffster Wrote: Kinda like Waterloo does when it over-counts by a staggering 30,000 because they add student population. In a year like 2020, those students won't even be there for 1/2 the year. I can't think of any other city that does that, until you mentioned those twin cities.
In a normal year, students are always here (OK, fewer in Spring term, May-August, but still a substantial number).
That being said, temporary residents should be counted in a standard way, which should probably be figured out by Statistics Canada in connection with the census. A similar but different issue arises in connection with seasonal residents of cottage country.
Temporary residents should count, because they are part of the size of the city — in the extreme, imagine that our city existed only to support the universities, and 80% of our population was students — but on the other hand they shouldn’t count twice; if I add up the size of every locality in the province I should get the provincial population.