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Originally Posted by MarchHare
This is falsely scapegoating immigrants (and/or federal government immigration policy) for a problem that they are not causing. Canada's overall rate of population growth is currently at an all-time historical low, even with immigration levels being where they are now. Young Canadian couples are having fewer children than parents in previous generations did, and the number of immigrants we're brining in aren't even making up for that difference.
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You're not really using a graph that ends in 2020 to argue that "Canada's overall rate of population growth is currently at an all-time historical low, even with immigration levels being where they are now."
In reality, Canada's population growth rate, once immigration opened up post pandemic, hit 2.7% in 2022,
the highest annual population growth rate on record since 1957.
With supply chain issues, increasing interest rates and already sky-high property prices affecting affordability, there is no reasonable argument that can be made that
now is the right time for record high immigration. Immigration rates can be ratcheted back up once the overall housing situation stabilizes through rates, supply chain issues are resolved and building capacity allows.