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Reduce Canada's population growth to a moderate sustainable level
Proposal text
Canada needs to reduce population growth to modest levels (i.e., cut immigration, Temporary Foreign Workers & foreign students, refugees are separate).
Canada’s population growth has been the highest in the G7 (double the US rate in 2019) because Canada drastically increased immigration after 2015, likely to meet the goal of 100 million in 2100, based on the corporate funded Century Initiative. This is not environmentally or economically sustainable.
Canada's population should only grow by the minimum or modest amount necessary to meet our demographic and economic needs (under 0.5%).
Type of Proposal
Public policy that the party would represent
Objective / Benefit
Raise Canada's GDP/capita, reduce the cost of living, and be greener (saving farmland, lower emissions, etc.) by cutting immigration to pre-2015 levels or closer to US levels.
If your proposal replaces an existing policy or policies, which one does it replace?
N/A
List any supporting evidence for your proposal
Traditionally, environmentalists were opposed to population growth and the idea of perpetual economic growth - read "Limits to Growth" for example, or the work of environmentlists like Herman E Daly who proposed that eventually we had to have a "steady state economy".
Yet, Canadian elites in business, media and government seem to think that bigger is better. Canada has a low birth rate rate, but so does the US and most other developed countries and even Japan and Italy are shrinking. Yet, the trudeau government has taken immigration policy to an extreme - doubling the already high 250,000 immigrants in 2015 under Harper to 500,000 in 2025, and in fact, we brought in 1.05 million in 2022. This seems in line with the goals of the Century Initiative, a bank and corporate funded group founded by Dominic Barton, thar want Canada to have 100 million people in 2100 - on the basis that bigger is better. Yet, global population will peak at 9.7 billion around 2064 then drop by a billion by 2100.
Does this proposal affect any particular group and what efforts have been made to consult with the group or groups?
N/A
Jurisdiction: Is this proposal under federal jurisdiction?
Yes
Please indicate the language the proposal is being submitted in.
English
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