If I understand you correctly, are you saying that there was some coordinated effort to lower birth rates over the last 40 years? What would the point of this be?
According to most sociologists, the lowering birth rate seems to be an effect of higher incomes and education, and is affecting most first world countries, not just Canada.
I think I agree with you, however, that wages in general should go up at the expense of the super-wealthy elites.
According to this: https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-levels-plans.html
The idea is to ensure economic prosperity of the future. Extremely low birth rates + an aging population = a need for more immigration. The US, Japan, and Korea will all need to do this soon too - social security is set to run out in 2035 if we don't do anything about it. Immigration is the answer.
Yeah its weird, we are kinda both right. I did some more research, and... its admittedly quite confusing. According to this article 2,198,679 is correct for 2023 as the total number of non-permanent residents in Canada, which is over 1 million more than the year before. But! This 1 million excess isn't all new people. They revised the way they counted people, which resulted in a higher number than before being counted.
The article goes on to say "The large growth from international migration is due to nearly 470,000 new permanent resident landings, and an increase in the number of non-permanent residents by almost 700,000 people."
So the number in my previous comment was only accounting for "NEW and permanent" residents, not the non-permanent residents. The number of "NEW non-permanent" residents is not given, but it is implied that most of their increased number come from the new method of counting them.
As a side note, of the 2.2 million non permanent residents in Canada, 1.4 million of them have work permits, and a lot have student visas (the exact number wasn't shown in the article).
Regardless, it is true that the number of new immigrants is increasing faster than any other G7 country. Is that a bad thing? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z
Ah, the comment you replied was talking about the US. I think that is where the confusion came in.
Edit -
The number of immigrants into canada according to statista:
2022 - 2023: 468,817
2021 - 2022: 493,236
That is a lot, but not 2.5 million
Wait, I don't get it. Are you implying you believe that the population of the US is only 37.5 million?
Honestly people like that guy are idiots. There could be all the evidence in the world, but if one nut job blog post agrees with them they say aha! I found the evidence!
I'm told that India and Pakistan loved this setup, and still celebrate the arbitrary line to this day.
While I agree with your sentiment, the issue is that there are actual consequences to not paying them. Ultimately up to 15% of your wages could be garnished, and your credit score will be tanked. Good luck getting a car or home loan after that.
Heck yes, hit half my protein goal in one go
As someone who is quite left, I find myself less radically left than many on Lemmy. My beliefs basically fall exactly with Bernie Sanders, which is more left than probably 95% of the entire country, but that isn't left enough for some people.
Man you don't even know, we probably have immortal mice at this point
Is China's reduction in birth rate caused by the same thing? Or Germany's? I'm just saying, this seems to be a phenomenon of wealth and prosperity, not any specific coordinated effort.
As for multiculturalism... My opinion there is it's all relative. Technically the land belongs to the native Americans. Europeans are the new culture.
Interestingly, the majority of Canada's new incoming non permanent immigrants appear to be from Ukrainian, another European country, to escape the war.