Quote:
Originally Posted by you&me
Agreed. I posted the same statscan link last night... Why do I feel like Yoho liking my post may have got it dismissed by some posters? 
But yeah, it takes some real creative stat cherry-picking to pretzel-up that narrative... You know you're on the right track when two people feel your post warrants a  ... |
Just to give an additional perspective on Canada's current policies.
The US, which had over 1 million immigrants land in 2022, had a 0.4% population increase in 2022. This is under more relaxed immigration policies with Biden in place and the highest immigration levels since 2016.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/pres...estimates.html
Quote:
After a historically low rate of change between 2020 and 2021, the U.S. resident population increased by 0.4%, or 1,256,003, to 333,287,557 in 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2022 national and state population estimates and components of change released today.
Net international migration — the number of people moving in and out of the country — added 1,010,923 people between 2021 and 2022 and was the primary driver of growth. This represents 168.8% growth over 2021 totals of 376,029 – an indication that migration patterns are returning to pre-pandemic levels. Positive natural change (births minus deaths) increased the population by 245,080.
“There was a sizeable uptick in population growth last year compared to the prior year’s historically low increase,” said Kristie Wilder, a demographer in the Population Division at the Census Bureau. “A rebound in net international migration, coupled with the largest year-over-year increase in total births since 2007, is behind this increase.”
|
Canada had
2.7% population growth last year and we have some here claiming this is not a policy problem.