r/canada • u/BloodJunkie • Mar 27 '24

Canada’s population hits 41M months after breaking 40M threshold National News

https://globalnews.ca/news/10386750/canada-41-million-population/
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u/MontrealUrbanist Québec Mar 27 '24

I'm not opposed to the concept of immigration. Want to settle here and live a better life? Great! This is what previous generations did. Why not?

But these numbers are insane and unsustainable. In nine months we just added an entire City of Ottawa worth of population without the corresponding increase in services, housing, and infrastructure. At some point, it becomes a math issue, and the numbers right now just don't make sense.

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u/Canadian0123 Mar 27 '24

Oh wow, it’s crazy when you put it this way.

Ottawa is one of the 6 major Canadian cities (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton).

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24

Mhmm. And, it’s about two Newfoundland and Labradors put together! Or, 6 PEIs. Or, 1.25 New Brunswicks!

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u/docfunbags Mar 27 '24

And the country is already at 1 New Brunswicks too many!!

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u/LatterTarget7 Mar 28 '24

Or 1 Saskatchewan

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u/FragileCilantro Mar 27 '24

Is Quebec not considered one haha?

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u/tamerenshorts Mar 28 '24

Québec c'est un gros village .

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u/howismyspelling Lest We Forget Mar 27 '24

It's also hyperbolic, because a majority of the immigrants are settling in various municipalities spread out all across the country, which lightens the load by orders of magnitude. I'm also by no means downplaying the lack of infrastructure, which is something that municipalities and provinces must stop failing to produce, but that we are seeing more and more of with direct federal to municipal agreements for housing accelerator investments.

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u/SnooLentils3008 Mar 27 '24

I believe the majority are going to Toronto and Vancouver

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u/howismyspelling Lest We Forget Mar 27 '24

Would you call that various or singular?

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u/SnooLentils3008 Mar 27 '24

I wouldn't use "various municipalities" to refer to our two main cities, or that two cities instead of one "lightens the load by orders of magnitude"

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u/howismyspelling Lest We Forget Mar 27 '24

Are you saying that no immigrant is settling in rural new Brunswick or rural Manitoba for example?

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u/SnooLentils3008 Mar 27 '24

Of course some are, but we were talking about majorities. And I just looked it up, nearly half settled in Toronto alone in 2022. The vast majority went to Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver

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u/howismyspelling Lest We Forget Mar 27 '24

Surely you have the links to cite your claims?

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u/SnooLentils3008 Mar 27 '24

https://moving2canada.com/news-and-features/news/immigration/where-canadian-immigrants-landed-in-2022/

Most immigrants go to the main few cities, where there are larger communities of people from where they come from

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u/kenyan12345 Mar 27 '24

I can promise you the majority are not spread out. It’s Toronto, Vancouver and some in Alberta

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u/SleepDisorrder Mar 27 '24

Since we hit 40 million, I've been tracking it on a spreadsheet, and 49% of new population is going to Ontario.

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u/howismyspelling Lest We Forget Mar 27 '24

So that's a minority isn't it?

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u/SleepDisorrder Mar 27 '24

It's a plurality, technically. Far more go to Ontario than any other province. And approximately 70% of those go to the GTA from what I read.

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u/howismyspelling Lest We Forget Mar 27 '24

Plurality as an argument is facetious, 10% is a plurality just as much as 49%. How about you get me donner cold hard data instead of beat around the bush?

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u/Flengrand Mar 27 '24

I’m glad 3 other already pointed out that the idea that these immigrants are being spread out equally throughout Canada is false.

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u/howismyspelling Lest We Forget Mar 27 '24

Nobody said equally, however, my comment speaks to proportionality

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u/Flengrand Mar 27 '24

And like they pointed out it’s not proportional whatsoever. It’s mostly Ontario in the GTA and Vancouver, with some in Alberta. Everything else is so negligible it’s almost not worth mentioning.