[Senator Clay Davis]

But if you're a good government, you should plan for growth ahead of time. Its critical to anticipate the potential for growth and in the case of this province how could anyone anticipate such a large population growth so quickly? But by planning for growth in advance by building roads and schools and hospitals before full capacity in them is needed you aren't having to play as much catch up if any, and in theory it should be cheaper to do it this way.

A great example is with C-Trains. All stations that were initially built were meant to handle 3 cars, but obviously back in 1981 if they had expected population growth to be almost 100% (which it basically was between 1980 and 2000), they likely would have built platforms for the potential to accomodate 4 or even more cars. Obviously would have saved a ton of money instead of having to extend all platforms. But how can you really expect that kind of population boom?