December 3, 2021
Canada is a low-fertility country whose fertility rates have steadily declined since 2008. Since the advent of COVID-19 pandemic, the trend has intensified.
According to Statistics Canada, our country’s fertility rate decreased from 1.47 children per woman in 2019 to a record low of 1.40 children per woman in 2020. In 2020, Canada experienced the lowest number of births and greatest year-over-year decrease in births (-3.6%) since 2006.
Canada’s low fertility rate is often used as an economic justification for increasing immigration levels. The logic is that the birth rate is not high enough to grow Canada’s population and labour force.
In this situation is found one of the great overlooked social issues of our time. While government and media inform Canadians of birth-rate statistics, they have eschewed a vital component of the dynamic.
It is the government of Canada’s job to anticipate social trends within society. Successive federal governments had decades to rectify the low birth-rate obstacle. Understanding this to be an inevitable trend, programs to incent Canadians to have children could have been in place over the past five decades.
It never happened. Why not? Imagine if you will a federal government with foresight enough to dedicate $5 billion dollars in the 1970’s to incent Canadian parents to have additional children. This being a mere drop in the bucket relative to the billions Canada sends to the Third World in foreign aid.
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