Canada’s Birth Rate is Collapsing
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Summary
What s the most important and consequential issue facing the future of canada? Well, it would not be a stretch at all to point at Canada's collapsing birth rates. However, if you are a keen observer of Canada's parliament, you would notice that solving this issue doesn't seem to be a priority for anyone. Why is this not a critical issue of debate in Canada, and why aren't solutions being brought forward by our leaders to solve this problem?
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what's the most important and consequential issue facing the future of canada well it would not be
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a stretch at all to point at canada's collapsing birth rates however if you are a keen observer of
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canada's parliament you would notice that solving this issue doesn't seem to be a priority for
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anyone when canada's collapsing birth rates are mentioned it is usually as a way to justify
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high levels of mass immigration something that the canadian public has not consented to or it is
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mentioned in regards to the collapsing use of the french language in quebec something i genuinely
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sympathize with but this is a serious crisis in canada and the issue still seems to be taboo
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the prime minister justin trudeau seems to have no concern about it and the opposition leader seems to
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be in the exact same position no mention whatsoever about canada's falling birth rates now when you
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break down the details even further the picture starts to look a lot worse the young male to young
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female ratio in canada has now completely reversed in canada there are now 109 young men aged 20 to 24
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for every 100 young females of the same age category so right around eight percent of young men in this
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country will never find a mate you don't need to be a genius to understand the consequences of that
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furthermore the average age of marriage is increasing and the marriage rate in this country is decreasing
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again a bad indicator couple this with a rising unemployment rate particularly targeting young
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canadians a surge in mass immigration numbers over the past three to four years and a housing crisis
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things are not looking very good so why then is this not a critical issue of debate in canada why
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aren't solutions being brought forward by our leaders to solve this problem that is the common
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question of the video why is nobody talking about this be sure to drop a like in the video help us
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out by subscribing to the true north youtube channel and let's get into it well i hate to be the bearer of
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bad news but let's be honest you already knew about this there will be a major in-cell crisis in this
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country this is from open source stats canada data compiled by chris brunet take a look at this this is
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the male to female ratio in canada of 20 to 24 year olds in 1970 there were 100 young men for every 100
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young women in this country today there are now 109 young men for every 100 young women in this country
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now i wonder what could have possibly triggered this rather shocking demographic shift could it be record
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levels of mass immigration millions of people coming into this country especially young men
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no probably not right they just magically appeared in this country i mean look at this data here since
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the 1970s this number has steadily been rising until 2010 or 2011 or so where it's decided to go straight
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up essentially from pierre trudeau all the way through to his son justin trudeau we've been talking about
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this this is not just a liberal government phenomenon this is a concerted effort in this
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country since the 1970s to embrace a program of mass immigration you can see that the rate before
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justin trudeau got into office was rapidly increasing and that number only continued to rise faster with
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justin trudeau in office now chris brunet even went further with this he broke it down by province
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and in ontario the problem is the worst in fact there are now 112 young men in ontario for every
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100 young women in ontario and where did the overwhelming majority of immigrants settle in
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this country wouldn't you just guess it it's ontario having a large number of young men in
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this country without a female mate and without any prospects of ever actually having a wife and
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children is a very dangerous thing for any country to have now like all those financial advisors always
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say past performance does not guarantee future results perhaps so but are we really willing to
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gamble with this is this something that we should just say well it's not going to happen to us we're
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not going to have any major societal problems with a bunch of young men who have no prospects of ever
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having a mate in a family it won't happen to us right this is canada nothing could go wrong
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now i don't know about you but that's not a bet i'm willing to make these days now if we are going
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to embrace this full-scale mass immigration policy which i really hope we don't but i don't know if
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we're going to have any change anytime soon maybe we need to go back to the great mind of ali g who
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had a solution to this problem which was simple take a listen what is the main thing we ain't got enough
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of in this country hospitals no libraries behave we ain't got enough fit women and we just got too
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many mingers no offense karen so why don't we just let in all the fit refugees and turn away all the
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ranked ones that way we solve both problems now unlike politicians in this country who refuse to
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mention canada's collapsing birth rate altogether on this show we have been making a point to address
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this quite a bit recently if you are a regular viewer of this program you will know about canada's
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birth rate it's right around 1.3 1.4 it has been collapsing it is well below the replacement rate
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and no one is addressing this at all so we have a collapsing birth rate in our country but is it
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because canadians don't want children or is it because they feel like they can't afford to have
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children well a recent survey by cardis would indicate that actually canadians want to have more
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children but they can't seem to afford it here are some of the key findings by cardis in this recent
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demographic survey that they conducted women in canada at the end of their reproductive years have
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about 0.5 fewer children than they desire on average missing births vastly outnumber excess births
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nearly half of women at the end of their reproductive years have had fewer children than they wanted many
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factors influence canadian women in having fewer children than they desire but the most influential
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factors relate to the ideas that children are burdensome that parenting is intensive and time
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consuming and that women want to finish self-development and exploration before having children the view
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that parenting is demanding is a bigger factor for low fertility than is housing or child care costs
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more than a third of young canadians were setting aside plans for a family due purely to financial
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reasons of canadians in their 20s stats canada found that 38 of them did not believe they could
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afford to have a child in the next three years with about the same number 32 saying they doubted
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they'd be able to find suitable housing in which to care for a baby so if a large number of canadians
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want to have more kids but are either finding it too demanding to be a parent or can't afford a house
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to raise a family in well maybe housing seems to be the issue now the next logical question is what
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has caused this housing shortage it wouldn't possibly be high levels of mass immigration would it oh yeah
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it is because that's what immigration refugees and citizenship canada warned the federal government
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before they embarked on this reckless dangerous path so the federal government was warned two years ago
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that immigration levels were far exceeding available housing supply but yet they kept going didn't they
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we also have the data that shows that despite the increases in immigration immigrants aren't actually
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building houses like we were told they were going to and when you just know it the line we've been
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fed by the federal government was that we needed more immigrants to fill canada's labor shortage but
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the latest unemployment rate increased and according to an rbc economist in the cbc the reason for that
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is because there's too much supply for available jobs the exact opposite of what we have been told
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younger people are accounting for the bulk of the uptick in in job seekers economists point out people
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aged 15 to 24 haven't seen job gains for more than a year the labor market is growing too quickly um and
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job creation is not keeping up so it is a bit challenging out there right now for recent graduates higher
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population without more jobs is part of the issue but so is an economy that's slowing down and who
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is impacted most by these latest unemployment numbers well according to the cbc and according
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to the recent data it's young canadians the people who we have to rely on to increase our birth rate
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so now you're starting to see how all of this is coming together how high levels of mass immigration
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are directly linked to declining birth rates in this country you have a surge in mass immigration
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which creates two new problems one being a spike in young men outpacing the young female population
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and then you also have a housing supply shortage if you have a housing supply shortage well then what
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happens canadians aren't family building because they can't find a house to raise their family in so the
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marriage rates are declining average age of marriage increases and the fertility rate continues to
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decrease not because canadian women don't want to have kids they're not having as many as they want
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to have now i would consider myself to be a close observer of canada's parliament i watch question
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period more than anyone should and i have very rarely if ever heard a debate about birth rates so i was
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curious i want an open parliament to search up birth rates and fertility rates to see when these issues
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are addressed if ever it seems really only one conservative mp in this country addresses birth
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rates without tying it directly to mass immigration shockingly it was michelle rumple garner of all
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people and it was only really twice in the last two years the liberals they don't seem to have a
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problem mentioning birth rates because it is one of their excuses as to why they have to embrace mass
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immigration the bloc they also mentioned falling birth rates but it only has to do with declining use of
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french two conservative mps michael chang and garnet genuis seem genuinely more concerned about falling
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birth rates in xinjiang china than they do about canada's birth rates seeing as how they haven't
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mentioned the issue in relation to canada but they have taken issue to mention it about the uyghurs in
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china we're not going to be able to solve canada's birth rate problem unless we get immigration under
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control which means a decline in immigration numbers a rapid decline in immigration numbers
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to make sure we're taking care of the needs of canadians first to incentivize family building pierre
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pauliev has said to us many times before that his immigration plan won't be set on arbitrary numbers
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and targets but instead it will be tied to available demand in the economy this issue is also not being
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addressed in the uk however there is one conservative mp in the uk who did address this issue take a
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listen to what miriam cates of the uk said in parliament earlier today mr speaker and can i thank
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my right honorable friend for his answer but one of the main drivers of immigration over the last 20
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years or so has been labor shortages caused by falling birth rates and according to projections by
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philip pilkington and paul morland if birth rates don't increase then immigration will have to rise to
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over a third of the population over the next 50 years if we're going to maintain a sufficient
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working age population so immigration on this scale has no democratic consent and obviously
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the minister has promised repeatedly to reduce that migration so can i ask what discussions my
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right honorable friend has had with colleagues in the treasury about this issue and does he agree
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that the government must have a strategy to address falling birth rates to ensure that we don't
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always have to rely on ever increasing rates of immigration uh mr speaker my honorable friend makes
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an important point about birth rates and there are a myriad of social and economic factors that drive
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that uh beyond my control uh i have to i have to uh concede um but i have spoken with uh my right
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honorable friend the chancellor of the exchequer uh about uh related issues and recognizing that gdp per
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capita is an important metric as well as overall gdp we're ensuring that we invest in a british workforce
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my right and friendly education sector a passionate about apprenticeships and lifelong learning we want
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to be a high skilled uh high income economy rather than a low skilled mass migration economy that remains
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the government's priority and we are taking action in our immigration policy to reflect that desire
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good on miriam for bringing this up it needs to be addressed it needs to be taken seriously we know
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what's causing this problem but are we going to get solutions let me know if you think we are going
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to get solutions anytime soon from our political class in this country over this major issue all
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right that's going to do it for us today on the show thank you so much for tuning in