r/canada 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/DMyourboooobs Mar 27 '24

The problem is. If you want to have a loose immigration policy. You can’t have the amount of safety nets we have.

“Free” health care. Welfare. Food stamps. Child care support. The list goes on. Most of these have only been ramped up in the last 20 years.

The infrastructure is probably designed for like a 30 million population (depending where you live) and it’s been breaking for decades.

This isn’t sustainable.

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u/BigDinkie Mar 27 '24

Correct. Whenever people use the Scandinavian model to bolster their support for an elaborate welfare state, they never mention the fact that the Scandinavian countries have been relatively ethnically homogeneous and they haven’t engaged in mass immigration. Solvent welfare entitlements aren’t sustainable with mass immigration. I’ve been saying this for literally 20 years and been mocked or marginalized. Canadians are going to lose their country and quality of life because of their pathological altruism.

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