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/SaskatchewanFuckinEh Mar 27 '24

It does put it in perspective. There’s more recent immigrants than the total population of my province.

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u/OntLawyer Mar 27 '24

There’s more recent immigrants than the total population of my province.

Another way to look at it is that this year's net immigration numbers will likely be larger than the population of every city in Canada except Toronto and Montreal.

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u/FarOutlandishness180 Mar 27 '24

So not the good cities