Deletions
- Proposal text
-Canada needs to reduce population growth to modest levels (i.e., cut immigration, Temporary Foreign-Workers & foreign students, refugees are separate).--Canada’s population growth has been the highest in the G7 (double the US rate in 2019) because-Canada drastically increased immigration after 2015, likely to meet the goal of 100 million in 2100,-based on the corporate funded Century Initiative. This is not environmentally or economically- sustainable.
-Canada's population should only grow by the minimum or modest amount necessary to meet our-demographic and economic needs (under 0.5%).- Type of Proposal
- Public policy that the party would represent
- Objective / Benefit
-Raise Canada's GDP/capita, reduce the cost of living, and be greener (saving farmland, lower-emissions, etc.) by cutting immigration to pre-2015 levels or closer to US levels.- If your proposal replaces an existing policy or policies, which one does it replace?
- N/A
- List any supporting evidence for your proposal
- Traditionally, environmentalists were opposed to population growth and the idea of perpetual
-economic growth - read "Limits to Growth" for example, or the work of environmentlists like Herman E-Daly who proposed that eventually we had to have a "steady state economy".- Yet, Canadian elites in business, media and government seem to think that bigger is better. Canada
- has a low birth rate rate, but so does the US and most other developed countries and even Japan and
- Italy are shrinking. Yet, the trudeau government has taken immigration policy to an extreme -
- doubling the already high 250,000 immigrants in 2015 under Harper to 500,000 in 2025, and in fact,
- we brought in 1.05 million in 2022. This seems in line with the goals of the Century Initiative, a
- bank and corporate funded group founded by Dominic Barton, thar want Canada to have 100 million
- people in 2100 - on the basis that bigger is better. Yet, global population will peak at 9.7 billion
- around 2064 then drop by a billion by 2100.
- Does this proposal affect any particular group and what efforts have been made to consult with the
- group or groups?
- N/A
- Jurisdiction: Is this proposal under federal jurisdiction?
- Yes
- Please indicate the language the proposal is being submitted in.
- English
Additions
- Proposal text
- +WHEREAS Canada’s population growth has been the highest in the G7 (double the US rate in 2019)
- +because Canada drastically increased immigration rates after 2015, likely to meet the goal of 100
- +million in 2100, based on the corporate-funded Century Initiative (target of 500,000
- +immigrants/year, or 1.25% of population) . This is neither environmentally nor economically
- sustainable.
- +BE IT RESOLVED that Canada needs to reduce population growth to modest levels (i.e., cut permanent
- +economic immigration, Temporary Foreign Workers & foreign students, after the numbers of refugees
- +and family class immigrants have been determined).
- +
- +BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Canada's population should only grow by the minimum or modest amount
- +necessary to meet our demographic and economic needs (maximum 0.5% of population).
- Type of Proposal
- Public policy that the party would represent
- Objective / Benefit
- +Canada must have an immigration policy that is compassionate, but when people move to Canada, their
- +environmental foot increases, including raising increasing Canada's GHG emissions, increasing our
- +dependence on resource extraction, and increasing urban sprawl and loss of wildlife habitat.
- +
- +While GDP is a flawed measure, we need to aise Canada's GDP/capita, reduce the cost of living, and
- +be greener (saving farmland, lower emissions, etc.) by cutting immigration to pre-2015 levels or
- +closer to US levels. Canadian might want our country to be more generous than our neighbour, but
- +there is no justification for canada to grow at a rate double that of the US, or more.
- +
- +Our immigration policy to be designed to reassure Canadians that it:
- +
- +Is environmentally sustainable
- +
- +Will not increase unemployment
- +
- +Will not lead to underemployment
- +
- +Will not be inflationary
- +
- +Will not increase home prices or rents
- +
- +Will not lower GDP/capita, particularly for people already here with permanent status/citizenship.
- +
- +Will not mean major personal sacrifices by Canadians or see us fall farther behind the US on
- +GDP/capita or their expectation of a middle class lifestyle
- +
- +Will not add to inequality/make the rich richer at the expense of the rest of us.
- If your proposal replaces an existing policy or policies, which one does it replace?
- N/A
- List any supporting evidence for your proposal
- Traditionally, environmentalists were opposed to population growth and the idea of perpetual
- +economic growth - read "Limits to Growth" for example, or the work of environmentalists like Herman
- +E Daly who proposed that eventually we had to have a "steady state economy".
- Yet, Canadian elites in business, media and government seem to think that bigger is better. Canada
- has a low birth rate rate, but so does the US and most other developed countries and even Japan and
- Italy are shrinking. Yet, the trudeau government has taken immigration policy to an extreme -
- doubling the already high 250,000 immigrants in 2015 under Harper to 500,000 in 2025, and in fact,
- we brought in 1.05 million in 2022. This seems in line with the goals of the Century Initiative, a
- bank and corporate funded group founded by Dominic Barton, thar want Canada to have 100 million
- people in 2100 - on the basis that bigger is better. Yet, global population will peak at 9.7 billion
- around 2064 then drop by a billion by 2100.
- Does this proposal affect any particular group and what efforts have been made to consult with the
- group or groups?
- N/A
- Jurisdiction: Is this proposal under federal jurisdiction?
- Yes
- Please indicate the language the proposal is being submitted in.
- English
