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Old Posted Mar 30, 2017, 8:48 PM
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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster View Post
Fairly certain that isn't correct.

There are 7.95 million people in the Vancouver-Victoria-Seattle corridor and nearly 16 million in the entire cascadia region.

I find it tough to believe that Montreal-Ottawa and whatever smattering of population there is around plattsburg is "far more populous" than that.

And that's not even getting into the type of trade connections that SW Ontario-Detroit and Seattle-Van see, which is much more alignment financially than a bit of cross border outlet shopping and some discount airfares.
I'm saying that there's an other region which is important in terms of cross-border trade. Putting forth the population numbers of Cascadia
isn't a winning argument compared to a similar area and alignment in the North East. Here's an interesting image that I've found which
seems to illustrate that there are 4 main megaregions between the 2 countries:


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