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Canada's population reaches 40M

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Re: Canada's population reaches 40M

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Post by voisin »

jejeyyy77 wrote: post #51
bee_rider wrote: post #3

Congrats, Canada! This has alerted me to the (IMO, pretty surprising) fact that all of Canada holds fewer people than the BosWash corridor.

Only a small portion of Canada is livable (basically along the US border) - so it is quite small in that regard. Also, 50% of them live further south than the US border: http://i1.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ca...

Livable to what standard? I think you mean “developed” and the country could easily be developed to the latitude of Edmonton or Prince George, it just isn’t because the population hasn’t reached a density that has demanded northern expansion. There’s nothing that makes it inherently un-livable.

Re: Canada's population reaches 40M

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Post by voisin »

bostonsre wrote: post #21
semihsalihoglu wrote: post #2

I've been living in Canada for 8 years and I generally heard people referring to "35M people", which I believe will soon change to "40M" people. Interesting that there is apparently a population clock that model's Canada's population: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005... See also the Century Initiative: https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/ to reach 100M by 2100.

I wonder if global warming could make it into one of the most populous countries in the distant future. Would be funny if there is some canadian cabal trying to speed up global warming.

I think our Canadian cabal is doing everything it can to speed up global warming. We have the dirtiest oil in the world (Alberta Oil Sands) and we essentially based our economy on extraction.

Re: Canada's population reaches 40M

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Post by voisin »

yuppie_scum wrote: post #34
nickpeterson wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Canada is going to have an absolutely blistering amount of immigration in the next few decades. Enjoy the sparseness while it lasts…

Yeah pump the brakes, there’s pllllleeeeeeeentyyyyy of physical space available in Canada for settlement still, if you don’t mind the poor weather further north.

You don’t have to go that much farther north and still have similar weather. Look at the interior of BC from Vernon to Prince George - huge amount of undeveloped land with moderate winters. Same with Calgary to Edmonton (both have crappy weather IMO but tons of space to develop and fill with people who would otherwise accept Calgary / Edmonton winters), etc etc etc.

Re: Canada's population reaches 40M

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Post by voisin »

scohesc wrote: post #50

Congratulations Canada - welcome to the big leagues! I hope they continue to grow and become a meaningful player on the global stage! Canada is a wonderful country with a lot of places to visit, culture to experience, people to interact with - I visited there 5 years ago and was able to visit only a small part of such a beautiful country. Now, they can (hopefully) deal with the issues that come along with increasing…

I concur as a Canadian with all of your points but the last one feels like it is in a different territory, nowhere near as relevant systemically as the others. More flavour of the day, gotta fill the news cycle. We Canadians unfortunately focus on this nonsense rather than protest in the streets about the important stuff, namely your other points.

Re: Canada's population reaches 40M

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Post by voisin »

palijer wrote: post #61
TheMagicHorsey wrote: post #15

Its kind of crazy that Canada now has the same population as California, and is 25 times bigger physically. Whereas Canada's economy is 50% smaller than California's (3T to 2T).

Also crazy how California has over 500% more people incarcerated than Canada with the same population and almost double the poverty rate with a larger economy.

Hard to break the law when the nearest person is over the horizon. /s

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Post by ipaddr »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #74
ipaddr wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like there is a global plan by government for some hidden agenda

No, it's actually not.

Multiple leaders on the left. In Australia, Canada, US large increases in immigration (undocumented in the US). All of these countries have large targets increasing population at levels never seen before. It's like they are acting from the same agenda.

They are not building housing or preparing for any increases. Are they expecting a population decline?

Re: Canada's population reaches 40M

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Post by voisin »

jejeyyy77 wrote: post #57
TheMagicHorsey wrote: post #15

Its kind of crazy that Canada now has the same population as California, and is 25 times bigger physically. Whereas Canada's economy is 50% smaller than California's (3T to 2T).

Only a small part of Canada is livable it's quite a small ;) - and over 50% of the population live below the border: http://i1.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ca...

Livable != developed At least 100x more of the country than has been developed is livable, just undeveloped. I’ve driven the length of the country four times in the last three years and I assure you there are vast stretches of perfectly livable land that simply hasn’t been developed because the market demand has been in major cities and expands outward slowly.

Re: Canada's population reaches 40M

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Post by voisin »

andrewstuart wrote: post #12

Australia has dramatically increased its immigration intake. 750,000 this year and next, with 1.5 million in total coming in the next 5 years. This huge number of people are being brought in during Australias worst ever housing crisis. The ALP government doesn’t care in the slightest. In fact it’s greatly to the advantage of the politicians, most of whom own 1/2/3/4/5/6 or more houses.

Canada and Australia are following the UK. Allow massive immigration, drive up housing costs, angering the citizens to the point where they’ll vote against their own interests if it means hurting the immigrants more. Watch the rise of far right politicians campaigning and winning on blatantly racist platforms about returning to a former glory.

Re: Canada's population reaches 40M

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

ipaddr wrote: post #86
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's actually not.

Multiple leaders on the left. In Australia, Canada, US large increases in immigration (undocumented in the US). All of these countries have large targets increasing population at levels never seen before. It's like they are acting from the same agenda. They are not building housing or preparing for any increases. Are they expecting a population decline?

You don't even know what "left" means if you think that's what Trudeau is.

And to be afraid of mysterious "government agendas", when the real power is clearly corporate, even less accountable or transparent...

... judging from your comments, you've stepped over the threshold. I'm afraid reason won't reach you.

Re: Canada's population reaches 40M

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Post by wasimanitoba »

ipaddr wrote: post #86
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's actually not.

Multiple leaders on the left. In Australia, Canada, US large increases in immigration (undocumented in the US). All of these countries have large targets increasing population at levels never seen before. It's like they are acting from the same agenda. They are not building housing or preparing for any increases. Are they expecting a population decline?

Britain is currently governed by the UK Conservatives and elsewhere this was already taking place under previous centre-right governments (enormous increasing in housing costs took place under Trump in the US and under Harper in Canada)
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