One of the most popular myths is that low birth rates demand high immigration. Canada might not be growing like the third world, but is it indeed a dying country? In an article entitled “The year ahead” immigration lawyer Ryan Rosenburg analyzed Canada’s demographic scenario. He stated:
“By comparison, according to Statistics Canada, Canada’s current birth rate is approximately 1.1 per cent (381,000 births) and our current death rate is approximately 0.72 per cent (247,000 deaths).” This equals 134,000 people (381,000-247,000) each year. He then explained:
“With a national population of 34 million people, 240,000 to 265,000 new permanent residents in 2011 represents approximately 0.70 to 0.78 per cent of our current population. In 2006, Statistics Canada estimated Canada’s population at 30 million people and at the time 240,000 to 265,000 new immigrants represented approximately 0.80 to 0.88 per cent of our then population.”
Upon more careful analysis and examination, it is observed that this isn’t even close to the reality. A Canadian high school math wiz with a bad case of zits and crooked glasses simply subtracted 34 million in 2010 from 30 million in 2006. That totaled four million people over a 4-year period. Thus 4 million people divided by 4 years equaled one million people per year. Therefore the average population growth for Canada between 2006 and 2010 wasn’t 0.80 to 0.88 at all. It’s a lot closer to 3.18% each year or 866,000 people and remember to add in an extra 134,000 Canadians from natural growth (births minus deaths). Since 2006, Canada’s population had increased by 1 million people each year. Doesn’t Canada have a labor shortage in key sectors? Isn’t Canada’s labor force simply disappearing like an endangered tropical rain forest?
“Unemployment in Canada, as of May 2002, was almost 8 percent, a number that included many well –educated post – secondary graduates. Moreover, a large group of young workers have just begun entering the labor market. These are the baby – boom echo, the offspring of the boomers. They were born between 1980 and 1995 and, at 6.5 million, they are the second – largest population cohort in Canada, after the boomers themselves. A steady stream of echo boomers will be looking for their first jobs between now and 2015. Why make their entry into the labor force more difficult by bringing in armies of competing workers from abroad?”
Canada’s foreign-born population is less than a quarter and there are tens of thousands of highly skilled Canadian college and university students that confidently look forward to earning good money in exchange for hard earned degrees and diplomas. The majority of immigrants used to arrive in Canada from developed nations with strong educational systems and stable democracies. After 1991, the Canadian government decided to pursue ethnic votes and started mass immigration from the third world to achieve this objective. Lowell Green was able to get some very detailed information straight from the government’s database.
“In an effort to keep everything as current as possible, I have been able to obtain some figures from Immigration Canada for 2007 and 2008. While a breakdown per individual nation is not available, here are the numbers for those two years on a regional basis:
Source area Total immigration 2007-2008
Africa and the Middle East 99,878
Asia – Pacific 230,138
South and Central America 52,385
United States 21,665
Europe and the UK 79,720
It doesn’t take a genius or mathematician to decipher what’s happening.
The Four –to-One Ratio
We’ve accepted 330,015 immigrants from Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific in the past two years but only 101,385 from the UK, Europe and the US.”
Isn’t Canada simply creating millions of jobs for newcomers? Does Canada actually create millions of great paying jobs for native-born Canadian as well as newcomers each and every single year? CIBC’s Chief Economist Benjamin Tal explained in a detailed report why this simply isn’t even close to the reality. He wrote:
“the softening in the monthly pace of job creation from an average of 31,000 in 2010 to 20,000 in 2011 will single-handedly slow growth in personal spending by more than 0.4 percentage points,”.
Therefore, in 2010, 372,000 new jobs were created (31,000 X 12 months) and Canada had 1.4 million people unemployed. In 2011, Canada is expected to create about 240,000 (20,000 X 12 months) new jobs. That’s a 35% plunge in what is shaping up to be Canada’s worst recession ever. Most developed nations have slashed immigration to a trickle to allow their native labor markets time to recover. They don’t dare flood the market with 250,000 new entrants and with family reunification, up that number to 866,000 new entrants. How many of these people actually dug in their heels and stayed?
“A 2006 Statistics Canada study revealed something rather astonishing. Many thousands of immigrants do not come here to become Canadian or make Canada their home: more than one – sixth of all immigrants who come to Canada return to their native countries within a year, and one – third within twenty years!”
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