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Originally Posted by Bonded
I think it is more a question of jobs. Let's pretend the federal government added enough to dwellings to both Regina and Saskatoon to support an additional 100-150k people each. What are they going to do?
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Well, I mean I have to tell you, I am literally situated and live in that exact situation lol.
I live in a new build community in Saskatoon and I'd be willing to bet the average nationality of this place is not "white Caucasian" Canadian but immigrant Canadians. It's a large, nice, new community and there seems to be two or three other nice new communities growing pretty quick out here too. Plenty of jobs and opportunity here. So to a degree it is happening, I'm just saying they could speed 'er up and help cities like Saskatoon cope. What are these people doing? Lots. There are lots of jobs out here. Mining, agriculture, business, tons of #### going on actually. Saskatchewan is now the I think one of if not the worlds largest supplier of uranium / potash, for example.
And yes, many people are moving here, but you could make it even more attractive to do so to try and level the playing field so to speak with the other large Canadian cities.