Estimated Population of Canadian Metro Areas (October 2023)

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Population of Canadian CMA on October 1, 2023:

Toronto: 6,974,900
Montreal: 4,519,000
Vancouver: 2,963,600
Calgary: 1,698,000
Edmonton: 1,598,200
Ottawa-Gatineau: 1,564,400
Winnipeg: 904,200
Quebec: 877,000
Hamilton: 853,300
Kitchener: 647,900
London: 600,500
Halifax: 500,100
St.Catherines-Niagara 469,300
Oshawa: 466,200
Victoria 440,900
Windsor 379,200
Saskatoon: 359,600
Regina: 277,900
Kelowna: 245,600
Barrie: 237,000

 

 

As of today:

 

Toronto CMA is 7,000,000

Vancouver CMA is 3,000,000

Calgary CMA is 1,700,000

Edmonton CMA is 1,600,000

[CdnFox]

Seems accurate but what was your point?

[Zeitgeist]

I think we need to ask and answer some key questions about rapid population growth and the fact that it’s entirely driven by high immigration:

1. What are the dangers of such rapid growth and immigration?

2. What will mitigate these dangers and make the most out of our population increase?

3. How are we doing implementing solutions and are they the right ones?

My take on the dangers is as follows:

- not enough transportation, healthcare, and housing to support the people who are already here, let alone the hundreds of thousands more who are in the pipeline

- too much cultural change too soon, causing ethnic, religious, and other cultural tensions

- traditional Canadian culture, the existence of which is already doubted, questioned, and under threat of cancellation by new revolutionary ideas and imported value systems, is disappearing

- liveable communities that took decades or centuries to build, facing the trial of time, are having their characters radically changed very quickly

- new citizens aren’t assimilating but rather sticking to their imported cultural enclaves, undermining national unity and the sense of a common culture, a Canadian culture

- high demand for goods and services is driving up costs

- crowded, congested, more polluted areas have a lower quality of life

- high standard of living is eroded because newcomers are accustomed to lower living standards

- democratic rights are weakened because new arrivals came from less democratic, less free places

- the cost of social services and the demands on our social safety net are too high

Other than lowering immigration and planning more effectively for the people who are already here, I don’t have much to say about solutions.  I don’t think we’re doing it right though.  The cost of living is too high, especially for housing. Our infrastructure isn’t keeping up. Our cultural values have changed too much for the worse in recent years, though I don’t necessarily blame immigration for this. Perhaps to a degree. We don’t assert our rights or demand better of our politicians. We’ve succumbed to infantilizing governance and radical activist ideologies that are damaging our esteem for Canada and its many very positive aspects, most of which were created by past generations, most of whom were immigrants, and most of whom were from Europe. 

Edited January 2, 2024 by Zeitgeist