🇨🇦 Canada's Fertility Rate Hits Record Low of 1.25 — But Ottawa's Solution Is Always More Immigration

Statistics Canada now confirms Canada's fertility rate has crashed to 1.25 children per woman in 2024 — officially ultra-low territory, a designation that signals demographic freefall. The same report notes that 64 per cent of Canadians aged 15 to 24 want at least one child, up from 53 per cent in 2021. So Canadians want children. They are just not having them. That gap between desire and reality is a policy failure with a name: unaffordable housing, crushing cost of living, and an economy that punishes young families.

The political class will not say this plainly, because acknowledging it would require admitting that mass immigration has inflated housing costs, suppressed wages, and made family formation economically irrational for millions of young Canadians. Instead, the standard response is to import more people to compensate for the babies Canadians cannot afford to have — which then makes it harder to afford babies, which then justifies importing more people. The demographic replacement loop is not a conspiracy theory. It is federal policy, and Statistics Canada just handed you the data to prove it.

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