He blames the province, as it did not sufficiently invest in bus routes to enable students to live outside Charlottetown or rural health care to prevent seniors from needing to urbanize.
You know, because nobody would actually choose to live in the city of their own volition. Nobody would ever prefer that. Obviously not. Especially when the city in question is an intense urban hellhole like Charlottetown.
Come on, you need more bus routes so people can live outside Charlottetown? Why? Charlottetown city is physically large and it has an extremely low population density. What you need are more apartments in Charlottetown! We see this same disconnect everywhere: people need places to live, but the authorities are doing everything they can to restrict new construction, to delay new construction, and to make new construction more expensive.
For purposes of comparison:
Charlottetown city:
population: 36,000
land area: 44.3 square km
density per square km: 814
Esquimalt:
population: 17,655
land area: 7 square km
density per square km: 2,495
Sidney:
population: 11,672
land area: 5 square km
density per square km: 2,291
You could add a thousand new apartments to Charlottetown and its small city flavour would be exactly the same as before, but the housing shortage would be eased by a fair bit. No need to worry about quaint Charlottetown turning into another dense urban disaster zone like Esquimalt or Sidney, in other words.