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Originally Posted by Fuzz
But why??? That's a miserable existence. That stretch of BC is my idea of hell. So is living on top of a train station. They do that becuase they have to, not becuase they want to.
I get there are ways to densify Canada(and no shortage of examples around the world), my point is it doesn't provide benefits to happy living. Is the point to stretch every resource and ecosystem to the limit? Why? Who's life improves from that? How is that good for the planet?
Any dense city or country is going to rely on imports from elsewhere to function. If those resources are already stretched, how does adding more people fix that?
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A few points:
What makes you happy obviously differs from others. People are still barrelling into Toronto and Vancouver or New York city despite them being crowded and expensive.
Even if you don't want 100 million Canadians, we need immigration now to keep 40 million Canadians because our birthrate is below the threshold to sustain our population.
The environment thing rings hollow because these people are coming from somewhere. Its not like we are creating these people in a lab and they have no environmental impact where they come from vs coming here and having impact.
There are benefits to having a bigger population. You are less reliant on the US. Plus you have someone to pay for all the oldies that are going to be around in the next 10-30 years including some of us.