I completely agree. 1%/year should be very manageable. Especially for the country with the 2nd largest landmass in the world.

And yet here we are.

Folks love their suburbs. And they love those laws protecting their suburbs and excluding everything else the market might want to try.

It’s not population growth, just immigrantion. 1.3 million in the next 3 years and 430k this year when the population is not even 40 million. That’s not even including the hundreds of thousands of foreign students and temporary workers. There are several cities where the majority of residents were not born in Canada so it obviously has an enormous strain on everything.

1. So, it's a mere 1% of the population/year, in a country that has below-replacement fertility.

2. Of course you shouldn't count foreign students or temporary workers, they get counted if they choose to stay. If you were counting them, as well as immigrants, you'd be double-counting the same people.

3. I didn't realize that the singular suburb of Vancouver called Richmond, BC (Population: 216,000) can be referred to as 'several cities'.

4. Why does a young[1], educated[2] person moving into the country in the prime of their life 'put an enormous strain on everything'? Would you care to elaborate? To me, it seems like a gift of all the costs of early-life childcare, plus the cost of a K-12-post-secondary education from their country of origin.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/443305/international-mig...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/555224/number-of-landed-...

Toronto is >50% foreign born. idk what stats you’re looking at

The problem is the allocation of jobs in a handful of city centers.

Then it sounds like the obvious solution is to ban rural people from moving into the cities!

... Or build more.