On May 15th, 2023, the House of Commons voted on a Bloc Quebecois motion condemning the Century Initiative, an immigration lobby which wants to raise Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100. The motion failed, with 138 Bloc and Conservative MPs voting in favour, and 168 Liberal and New Democrat MPs voting against. This was […]
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In some circles, Canada is portrayed as underpopulated because it covers a huge area and has low population density. Growth promoters suggest that a large proportion of Canada could be converted to farmland to feed both a much larger population and much of the world. That may have seemed to be the case early in
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A few weeks ago, PIC made a tweet about sprawl. Twitter, as you likely know, limits the number of characters, including spaces, in a tweet to 280, so one must be terse. The tweet read: “You want to stop sprawl but won’t talk about population growth? Then you’re fixating on a symptom but ignoring the
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This is such a huge sensitive subject … where to begin and how to keep it succinct. To me, population growth in Canada and the world affects two key aspects of life: 1) quality of life and 2) the survival of humans and all other species on the planet. Quality of life is a very
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The Good Ship Canada at 40 Million: Where Are We Headed? Congratulations, Canada! On June 16, right on time for Canada Day, you reached a population of 40 million. This is no mean feat for a country whose total fertility rate is 1.4 children per woman and has been below the replacement level of 2.1 since 1971, when its
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Government, Volkswagen, and Stellantis: Do the Jobs Justify the Cost? Two battery plants, Volkswagen and Stellantis, are vying for electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing dominance. The federal and provincial governments are promising large contributions to help build these plants. Volkswagen is building a new plant in St. Thomas, which is set to begin producing in
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NIMBY means Not In My Back Yard. It is often used in a derogatory sense for people who are opposed to a certain development because it would affect their own little neck of the woods. Instead of accepting a change affecting their neighbourhood for something that would presumably benefit the greater good, they selfishly oppose it
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Ignoring the Fundamental Issue Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb And don’t go near the water. This anonymous little poem comes to my mind when I read about the advocacy efforts of various anti-sprawl and environmental groups. The obvious absurdity of the poem
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A November 29, 2022 Globe and Mail article is representative of a slew of articles appearing recently in the Canadian MSM nibbling around the mass immigration issue now that immigration levels have been raised from disastrous to ludicrous. Media corporations have continuously pushed for higher levels of immigration over the past 5 decades but in
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