Canada's population drops as country caps immigration (www.bbc.com)

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[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 days ago

Shouldn't we address why population growth is so stagnant in our population to require constant immigration to boost our population? Why are so many people having fewer and fewer children? Could it be that housing, food, everything is skyrocketing in price and yet wages haven't increased in decades?

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I wonder if people realize that if we were to (as a thought experiment) get rid of all immigration but replace that entirely with homegrown birth rates, it would exacerbate the "problems" with population growth far more than doing it with immigration. Instead of bringing in working people who can start contributing to the economy essentially immediately, we would be bringing in children who would be drains on our resources for the next 18 years until we can educate them and get them into productive roles. The benefit of immigration is that some other country pours the resources into turning a child into a productive adult and then we reap the rewards.

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not saying immigration is good or bad, just that it's a symptom not a cause of an underlying issue.

Also, how many uber drivers have you met that are doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc waiting for their certification to be validated before they can work? It's anecdotal but I've met a lot of immigrants with professional degrees driving for uber because they can't work for months to years because they need to get recertified/authorized.