Juno News - June 05, 2022


Why is the media celebrating lower birth rates in Canada？

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Susan McDaniel Harrison
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In 2020, Canada's fertility rate fell to a record low of 1.4 births per woman. Professor Susan McDaniel, a sociologist at the University of Victoria, Canada, says this is a good thing. She says it's better for parents if there are fewer children.

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00:00:00.000 And so while our liberal elites and overlords are completely denigrating women and trying to erase women from the public square, there has been some shocking research that Canada's fertility rates reached a record low in 2020.
00:00:13.900 So this was sort of something a lot of people saw coming, that there would be the opposite of a baby boom during the pandemic, that parents would decide that there was too much economic uncertainty and that we wouldn't have as many babies being born.
00:00:27.480 Well, that has borne out through stats, so stats can confirm that, that in 2020, fertility rate fell from 1.47 children per woman in 2019 down to 1.4 in 2020.
00:00:41.300 Fertility rates have been steadily declining in Canada since 2009 and we're sort of bottoming out, reaching rock bottom.
00:00:48.780 I had to include this story, Harrison, because this individual here, Susan McDaniel, who is a professor of sociology at the University of Victoria, she actually celebrates this.
00:00:59.740 Rather than seeing this as the sort of real damaging, the sort of end of civilization threat that it poses, the lack of fertility rates in this country, the fact that people are not having families, that men are choosing to forego marriage, they're choosing to delay, choosing to wait.
00:01:18.600 Many of them are choosing not to have children at all, some of them ideologically because they oppose human beings and they don't want to worsen what they consider climate change.
00:01:28.720 Or just people unable to find a life partner and find that meaning and take that plunge into adulthood by having a family, that more and more Canadians are forgoing that.
00:01:38.980 Again, most people would see that as something really sad, there's something really wrong in our society that we need to address and we need to confront, we need to change.
00:01:47.920 Well, here CTV has found a professor to say the exact opposite.
00:01:52.800 This is a good trend.
00:01:53.900 This is a good trend.
00:01:54.820 So we'll go back to Susan McDaniel, the professor.
00:01:58.560 She said the trend is for lower birth rates worldwide.
00:02:01.860 And she basically just says this is a good trend.
00:02:04.600 Basically, it's better for children if there are fewer children.
00:02:07.260 It's better for parents if there are fewer children.
00:02:09.660 It's better for society and it's better for the planet and everything else.
00:02:13.560 So let's just go through this because this is so absurd and so, again, counterintuitive.
00:02:18.720 How on earth is it better for children if there's fewer children?
00:02:22.340 Do you know what little kids love?
00:02:23.860 Other little kids.
00:02:24.760 They love kids to play with.
00:02:25.960 They love cousins and neighbors and siblings and friends.
00:02:29.120 Like the more kids in a community, the better.
00:02:32.180 I have a three-year-old and a one-year-old and their favorite things that they do is go out to playdates,
00:02:36.600 go out to messy tots.
00:02:37.960 We used to have a mom-and-tot group in our church basement and then COVID put an end to that.
00:02:43.040 And it was really, really hard on my son because he loved going every week to see his little friends
00:02:46.920 and all of a sudden he couldn't.
00:02:48.400 Little kids love being around other little kids.
00:02:50.580 So the fact that there are fewer children is not better for children despite what the sociologist says.
00:02:55.420 It's better for parents.
00:02:56.460 She says it's better for parents if there are fewer children.
00:02:58.900 How on earth is that the case?
00:03:00.440 Most women when polled in Canada say that they want to have more children,
00:03:03.900 that they would have more children if they could afford it or if they had different financial circumstances.
00:03:09.160 Most women say that they would, if they were asked how many children would they have in ideal world, 0.97
00:03:14.480 most women say three. 0.99
00:03:15.780 Three children is what they say that they want.
00:03:18.500 Instead, we see 1.4 children per woman.
00:03:21.760 So the exact opposite of what this woman is saying.
00:03:24.140 It's not better for children.
00:03:25.260 It's not better for parents.
00:03:26.040 It's certainly not better for grandparents.
00:03:27.340 Grandparents are the ones that want grandchildren the most.
00:03:29.920 They want more children.
00:03:31.320 So many of the people I talk to who have kids that are, you know, in their 20s or 30s,
00:03:36.880 a lot of them mentioned to me like, oh, you know, I can't wait for my child to have kids.
00:03:42.780 I can't wait for grandkids.
00:03:43.980 I hear that so often.
00:03:45.860 Everyone wants more kids. 0.70
00:03:47.720 And the whole idea, better for society, better the planet.
00:03:50.380 Try to circle that square with the idea that these are the same people who are in favor of open borders and mass immigration, right?
00:03:57.060 They want more people in Canada.
00:03:58.400 We need more people in Canada from an economic perspective.
00:04:01.300 And yet they just don't want them to be Canadian grown. 0.96
00:04:04.220 So I thought that that was one of the most despicable quotes that I have ever seen from a legacy media outlet saying that having fewer kids is better for everyone.
00:04:13.420 No, it is not.
00:04:14.440 That is not true.
00:04:15.400 Don't listen to sociology professors.
00:04:17.500 They will ruin our society and make everybody miserable.
00:04:20.500 What do you think, Harrison?
00:04:21.140 Well, I think most sociology professors are probably exactly aligned with what that woman was saying. 1.00
00:04:27.560 And this is not a question of sociology.
00:04:29.380 This is a question of for doctors and for economists, because that's really what it is.
00:04:34.520 But, Candice, there's two things I think we should talk about with this.
00:04:37.320 The first is, as you said, the immigration side of things.
00:04:40.020 In the article, they even put that there.
00:04:41.980 The sociology professor says our population is growing, but it's because of immigration that's a good thing. 1.00
00:04:47.520 But it's not good for Canadians to have more kids. 0.98
00:04:50.780 I think that's important to note.
00:04:52.620 That's an important part of their plan.
00:04:54.500 And, of course, the second part is that this conversation wouldn't be right if we didn't talk about the fact that all of these policies, going back to the policies where they are denying women and erasing women, encouraging abortions.
00:05:10.980 You can go down the list, Candice.
00:05:12.880 The left are putting forward policies that are tailored to this outcome, that are tailored to having fewer or having lower birth rates.
00:05:21.120 That's an important part of the conversation, and I think the media is now veering into the position of promoting professors that are basically outlining exactly why it's good to have less kids and why we need to increase immigration.
00:05:34.600 Those are two important parts.
00:05:35.880 That really, this is the outcome of policies put forward by the political left.
00:05:40.880 This is exactly what's going to come from it.
00:05:42.940 And I think, clearly, it is not good for parents.
00:05:45.500 It is not good for other kids, and it is just not good for the country.
00:05:51.120 It is not good for parents.