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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
If there are parents out there who were motivated to become parents by an extra 6 months of EI or a monthly pittance/allowance, I'd prefer they were sterilized and not motivated to have more children.
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This is the problem policy makers are facing.
Providing financial enticements (or more bluntly, reproduction bribes) will more than likely encourage the wrong kind of people to have more mealtickets, I mean, children.
Pretty much all the government can do is to ask people who can afford to have more children to do so. However, I would suspect the result of that would be negligible. People who want more kids will simply do so, people who don't, won't. Again, there's the danger of social engineering.
As it stands, increasing immigration would be a poor idea. As it is, the current immigration policy has some flaws as some posters have mentioned.