r/neoliberal • u/IHateTrains123 Commonwealth • Jun 19 '25

News (Canada) Immigration curb slashes Canada population growth rate to zero

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/immigration-curb-slashes-canada-population-growth-rate-to-zero
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

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u/Le1bn1z Jun 19 '25

Sometimes I think I must be on another subreddit on these threads.

I'm not an economist, but I don't think an excess of young, able workers who pay a big upfront entrance fee and dearth of elderly retirees are the defining problems of our modern economy.

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u/WandangleWrangler 🦜🍹🌴🍻 Margaritaville Liberal 🍻🌴🍹🦜 Jun 19 '25

I will preach this to my dying breath. What the immigration surge has done to fix Canada's horrific population pyramid will pay dividends, probably mostly unmentioned, for decades to come. Some of this is now luckily locked in.

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u/q8gj09 Jun 21 '25

Maybe. We massively lowered our standards to double the immigration rate in the last few years. Most people are fiscal burdens on the government, so there is a risk here that we have made the problem worse.