ICYMI Mason: Immigrants are this country’s best friend. Don’t forget it

One of the counter narratives to the current critique of immigration levels (which I share). And of course the equally simplistic rationales used to justify increased levels of permanent residents, and uncontrolled growth of temporary residents, have also come home to roost:

According to a study in The Lancet, by 2050, 155 of 204 countries (75.9 per cent) measured (including Canada) will not have high enough fertility rates to sustain population size over time. This will increase to 97 per cent of these same countries by 2100. “The new fertility forecasts underscore the enormous challenges to economic growth in many middle- and high-income countries with a dwindling workforce, and the growing burden on health and social security systems of an aging population,” the report states. “These future trends in fertility rates and live births will completely reconfigure the global economy and the international balance of power, and will necessitate reorganizing societies.”…

This brings me back to Canada and our national debate around immigration. Blaming a “radical, out-of-control NDP-Liberal government,” for current immigration numbers – as Mr. Poilievre has done – is nothing more than cheap sloganeering that ignores the complexity of the problem.

Source: Mason: Immigrants are this country’s best friend. Don’t forget it