\u2014 Peter Menzies<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n“It seems that Canada is even below this natural setpoint with families reporting that they would have more children ‘if conditions allowed.\u2019 Regardless, our prosperity engine continually requires enough people in the core tax-paying demographic (30-60 years) to support the standard of living for all. If we haven\u2019t produced enough population three decades earlier to fill up these highest tax-paying cohorts, then immigration is required to close the gap.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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