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by ethbr1 751 days ago
At a 1.5% fertility rate [0], what's the alternative?

It's fair to gripe about the effects of immigration, and policies to handle those, but it's disingenuous to gripe about immigration as a policy in a <2+ country.

Demographics is a zero sum game. Either you have a growing population and smooth age brackets or Very Bad Things happen.

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/CAN/can...