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The #population of #Canada is expected to hit 40 million within the next day or two, according to #StatCan's modelling:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm #Cdnpoli
I think many economists point to the fact that western countries need younger workers to help pay for the growing percentage of the population that will be retired and needing more government services. So population increase at the rate we have may be needed even with some of the negatives it brings.
Unfortunately we’ve kind of seen what people think when the government wants to step in more directly to help make people’s lives better, this kind of thing would just make people cry about ‘freedoms.’
I think the “freedom” crowd would be on board. With housing costs being the way they are and them being racists, cutting back on immigration until we have more affordable housing wouldn’t be a hard sell.
don’t know where they will live however, in the streets?
Canada does have the second-largest land area of any country on Earth, second only to Russia. I wouldn’t think that space would be a terrible constraint for Canada.
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I think many economists point to the fact that western countries need younger workers to help pay for the growing percentage of the population that will be retired and needing more government services. So population increase at the rate we have may be needed even with some of the negatives it brings.
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I disagree. We are already seeing the results of aging population. here is a report from stats Canada about it: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220427/dq220427a-eng.htm
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Unfortunately we’ve kind of seen what people think when the government wants to step in more directly to help make people’s lives better, this kind of thing would just make people cry about ‘freedoms.’
I think the “freedom” crowd would be on board. With housing costs being the way they are and them being racists, cutting back on immigration until we have more affordable housing wouldn’t be a hard sell.
Trudeau is aiming at 100 million people, I don’t know where they will live however, in the streets?
It’s not Trudeau, stop blaming everything on him.
https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/why-100m
Even before this initiative was brought up we were still on pace to hit 100 million people before 2100.
Canada does have the second-largest land area of any country on Earth, second only to Russia. I wouldn’t think that space would be a terrible constraint for Canada.
Canada has more area in total, but China and the USA have more land area specifically.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area
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a lot of them https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=trudeau+100+millions
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well, 500’000 per year is what federal wants https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1929447/immigration-canada-nouveaux-seuils
Anyway, it’s too much for our housing, whoever decides it or if it is 500k or 1m per year
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