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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
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.
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From an environmental standpoint one could argue their footprint would be much smaller in a less developed country than compared to a North American lifestyle that is just naturally going to be more carbon intensive.