Vanishing Canadians.

Take a look around at your fellow Canadians, because they are slowly disappearing. All of the scenarios projected by Statistics Canada about population growth in Canada over the next 50 years show a “negative increase” (you’ve got to love bureaucratic language) in the number of births minus deaths.1 In the low-growth scenario for the Canadian population, the first year in which there will be more deaths than births could be as early as 2020; if a high-growth scenario appears, it could be as late as 2046. But it’s going to happen. The Canadian population has been growing more from immigration than from natural increase for more than ten years. If Canada loses any of its appeal for immigrants, we could be a shrinking nation. And as the average age of Canadians continues to rise, the economy, and our standard of living, will decline. It’s not a happy prospect.