Century Initiative. Been living under a rock? Go check out who Mark Wiseman is, his relationship to Carney.

So someone Carney knows believes something, but no indication whether carney agrees? That is weak sauce.

More importantly, they are talking over a time frame of 2100. Doubling the population over the course of 75 years is probably fine. The economy can handle it over that time frame.

It's closer to tripling your population. Which is impossible if your fertility rate's below replacement... well, unless you import enough people that those imported outnumber those already there by 2 to 1.

I first learned of it here on HN, someone submitted it last year.

>The economy can handle it over that time frame.

What economy? Are you planning on finding jobs for tens of millions more people? One might say that you don't have enough jobs to go around as it is.

Current population is 42 million, so it is closer to doubling than tripling.

Population almost exactly tripled in the last 75 years, though.

It's already underway... about 10 million of those are the population increase, and more recently than most would guess.

Sure, last year and the year before it slowed down, after several years of increasing record highs. 2021 - 2024 all had higher rates. We had over 2% for consecutive years.

More than 20% of Canada's current population was born outside of Canada. That's a substantial block of people!

I'm not against immigration by any means, but still. Immigrant Canadians are strongly likely to outnumber born Canadians in my lifetime

I asked some of my Indigenous friends here how that worked out for them and they said not great