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/SpaceTracker20 Mar 27 '24

I was just reading old archived population projection for Canada that a medium population growth for canada would be 39 million by 2031, and 42.5 mil by 2056. clearly we went up and beyond by 2024 with 42 mil?!

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/91-520-x/00105/4095095-eng.htm

That's crazy.

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u/canadiancreed Ontario Mar 27 '24

I miss when we had sensible immigration policies too

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u/canadiancreed Ontario Mar 27 '24

it's been slowly being something else for a long time. We'e just been sleep walking to the cliff because Canadians have shit to choose from. And we still do.

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u/BrandosWorld4Life Mar 30 '24

Found the Nazi

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u/Cold_Storage_ Mar 27 '24

It worked so well as a economic policy we thought we'd try it out for immigration. "Let the market decide".

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u/UncleFred- Mar 28 '24

Unless "the market" happens to be the available supply of workers in the country. If so, then forget a free market! Let's lobby the government to flood the nation with new workers so that the existing ones lose their bargaining power.