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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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I don't think that is true at all. We have a responsibility to protect wild areas for future citizens. We also have water shortages(speaking of Alberta) where water allocations are near or at maximum. I've already mentioned other environmental impacts that woudl be local to Canada.
And again, I'm not against immigration, or even growth if it is done in a responsible smart manner(though I really do prefer fewer people). I'm not at all convinced that is what is happening.