Talk:National Capital Region (Canada)

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There are some significant errors. In fact, the NCR is not an unofficial designation...it only came into use, I believe, because of the federal government's use of the term, which is currently defined in the National Capital Act in extremely precise terms. It does not correspond to the Census Metropolitan Area. I was attempting to work it in to the article, but it required more work than I have time for this morning. (I couldn't just drop it in, without leaving the article contradicting itself.) I meant to put the paragraph I was working on here, but in the process of gathering links, etc., I managed to lose it from both my web browser and the clipboard. - Cafemusique 13:20, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I added the CMA info because of the way many of the American agglomeration pages are set up, not to mention a few Canadian ones as well: (Namely a general term for an urban area given to be the informal name of the CMA) Earl Andrew 03:27, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Maybe I'm not understanding the distinction that Earl Andrew is making. The NCR is not an "informal designation" - it's an official government designation, and precisely defined by statute. I do not believe that it should be referred to as informal, because it is anything but. I have no idea what the official term Statscan uses for the CMA, and maybe the term NCR is used to refer to what is officially the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA, but that doesn't render the NCR "informal" -- it simply means that people are mixing up two very distinct concepts. Skeezix1000 21:01, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Location grid

• I removed the location grid because it was inaccurate (for example, New York state is not adjacent to the southern boundary of the NCR). If I have time, I will insert the correct information, and add the grid back to the article. --Skeezix1000 12:21, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Only metropolitan region spanning provincial border?

• This comment didn't seem right to me - what about Lloydminster, which straddles AB/SK border? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.145.187.67 (talk) 07:00, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Lloydminster isn't a metropolitan area. The definition of a metropolitan area requires a minimum population of 100,000 people; Lloydminster just barely has about a quarter of that. Bearcat (talk) 02:33, 19 April 2008 (UTC)