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Originally Posted by balletomane
I think Stantec conducted some sort of population report for Thompson a few years back, and I think their higher estimates were around the 17,000 mark by 2036. I believe these were based on upgrades to its Wastewater plant, which doesn't sound like something that could sustain growth. It seems useless trying to estimate the population projections in any northern community, sometimes they shrink dramatically between censuses and other times they post a healthy growth.
Do you think climate change will have positive (or negative) growth effects on some of these northern communities in the next few decades?
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Very unlikely. Not unless we decide to open up our national borders and just hand over free land to everybody who can buy a plane ticket to Canada.
Otherwise, there's a reason that people are where they are. Outside of mining and logging, there's very little reason to live up there. Can't farm and there aren't enough people to make a go of pretty much any other industry anyway.