EDITORIAL
NotCanada.com
Updated June 1, 2008
Canada is in big trouble. Stats show that of the 223 countries in the world,
Canada ranks 184th in the number of
children born per woman. See source here:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html
This low fertility rate is concerning when you also consider that persons aged
65 and over currently comprise 20% of Canada’s population. Studies show that by
the year 2050, this percentage will rise to 46%.
Source:
http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/backgrounder_96.pdf (See Page 1 of article)
So what is the solution? Here are a few of our suggestions:
1) Bring in more immigrants – this is currently being done, but you have to be careful. It
makes sense only if the immigrants you are bringing in are young. If they are
over age 40, it is useless.
2) Encourage older people to continue working and to aggressively save money! –
When people stop working (age 65 or so) the government has to step in and pay
for them. Health care costs, pensions, you name it. Where does the government
get the money from? From the taxes taken out of the paychecks of the working
class.
3) Ban all immigration for parents and grandparents – this may sound harsh, but
under the current ‘family reunification’ system, too many old people come to
Canada every year. And let’s be honest, they really do not contribute to the
country in any way.
4) Bring in more immigrants – wait, didn’t we just mention this? Well the reason
we repeat it is because there is another big problem to this. See the job market
in Canada, currently cannot provide enough for the existing Canadians. Bringing
in more (younger) people will make the competition for the few limited jobs
more intensified and this could prove disastrous.
5) Make Canadians have more babies – anyone who thinks that this is going to
happen can keep dreaming. Currently it costs about $225,000 to raise a child
from birth to age 18 in Canada. It’s a small miracle that Canadians have any
children at all.
6) Make the retirement age 70 and expect older people to work, but at less
physically demanding jobs – could work, but, what jobs? There are few jobs in
Canada!
So what’s the solution? Well, we are not sure. But one thing is for sure, if
current trends continue, Canada will become an increasingly older, more expensive, more
heavily taxed and decrepit country in the next generation.
NotCanada.com Team
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