Canada has plenty of room for new immigrants. What matters is acclimatization, education, and cultural harmonization, which takes time and cannot be rushed. We cannot just throw open our borders and accept anyone who applies… it needs to start slowly with good systems and workflows in place, and we currently don’t even have that with our now-reduced volumes.
Now granted, much of our northern regions are - currently! - uninhabitable. But if we were to target the same population density as Germany, we could hold 2.4B people.
That’s a quarter of the current human population, and a shitton of unused potential. We could easily become a global superpower with that amount of talent.
Urban planning is the bigger issue. Provinces just take their biggest city and expect those to grow infinitely instead of trying to grow additional hubs.
We just need the infrastructure to support it, and AFAIK most of those uninhabitable places, are very much inhabited by wildlife. Aiming for the population density of a European nation would mean environmental collapse, not to mention what Indigenous communities have to say about it.
As well, many of those places were covered in permafrost which is now melting. The northern regions of Canada are going to change a lot in the future, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it anymore.
Canada has plenty of room for new immigrants. What matters is acclimatization, education, and cultural harmonization, which takes time and cannot be rushed. We cannot just throw open our borders and accept anyone who applies… it needs to start slowly with good systems and workflows in place, and we currently don’t even have that with our now-reduced volumes.
Now granted, much of our northern regions are - currently! - uninhabitable. But if we were to target the same population density as Germany, we could hold 2.4B people.
That’s a quarter of the current human population, and a shitton of unused potential. We could easily become a global superpower with that amount of talent.
Urban planning is the bigger issue. Provinces just take their biggest city and expect those to grow infinitely instead of trying to grow additional hubs.
We just need the infrastructure to support it, and AFAIK most of those uninhabitable places, are very much inhabited by wildlife. Aiming for the population density of a European nation would mean environmental collapse, not to mention what Indigenous communities have to say about it.
As well, many of those places were covered in permafrost which is now melting. The northern regions of Canada are going to change a lot in the future, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it anymore.