Immigration.ca - Canada Immigration News - July 2009
Though the concern over Canada’s birth-rate are certainly not new, more and more often experts and analysts are calling upon the country’s policy-makers to address the situation.
Recent statistics show that population growth is slowing in developed countries (Canada included) while booming in many less- or under-developed nations, such as Afghanistan, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
What this means for our future, according to some analysts, is either a decline in relevancy as higher-populated nations become more developed and more powerful on the global scale, or an increase of violence as the less-developed countries may react aggressively to smaller populations who have more of the resources.
The birth-rate in Canada would have to increase nearly 50 per cent to maintain our workforce. The oft-cited solution of immigration is nowhere near the rate it need be to maintain the workforce in the country and support the retirement of the baby-boomer generation.
Many argue that population issues will emerge as one of the key challenges facing, not only Canada, but the entire world in the next few decades. All governments must recognize the situation and work together to address the problem before it reaches crisis-levels.
Source: Edmondon Journal
