The Aging Population Hoax
Originally published on 1 February as "The Aging Hoax" by Canadian population stability activist Brishen Hoff on his blog site ecologicalcrash.blogspot.com/
Over and over, the media tells us that we have an aging population, and that it is a bad thing.
Never mind the problem of growing overpopulation, the media is only concerned with the aging population angle.
They claim that the cost of taking care of these seniors will be tremendous.
They propose a solution: multiculturalism.
How do they define multiculturalism?
To them multiculturalism is the injection of 260,000 immigrants into Canada annually. In other words, cheap labour for big business and lowering of labour standards.
They claim that this makes for diverse, vibrant communities.
They would classify an unsustainable urban nightmare with 6 lanes of gridlock traffic, smog, sewage smells, etc such as Toronto as a diverse, vibrant community.
Multiculturalism/Mass-Immigration is the friend of big business as a way to boost their profits by adding more customers.
Big businesses like the Royal Bank of Canada lobby hard for the Canadian government to accept more immigrants so that they can make more short-term profits at the expense of Canadians and their environment.
The media has had a powerful influence deceiving the Canadian public.
People like Sean Webb from TVO's "The Agenda" forum discussion ask:
"And how do we deal with our aging population? In the next twenty to thirty years we are going to have a very old population. Who is going to care for all of these people when they are not able?"
To which I would respond:
- Actually, children are more expensive than elderly.
- Europe has a more aged population than Canada. Do you see any crisis there in looking after their seniors? It is countries like Brazil with a young population that really cause social problems.
- Population growth can't go on forever, so therefore it is not a long-term solution to an aging population.
Could it be that big business wants us to fear an aging population only so they can gain public acceptance of bringing in a quarter million immigrants each year to Canada so they can grow their short-term profits at the expense of Canadians and their environment?
The media has tried to convince the public that it is more compassionate to let the world into Canada than to protect the rights of existing Canadians and Canadian wildlife by not letting the world immigrate into Canada.
Sean Webb says: "It doesn't make any sense to just close off the border and seclude ourselves from the world. Not only do we hold a huge percentage of the world's available fresh water relative to our population, but we are really good at water purification. If we aren't willing to continue taking in so many immigrants can't we offer our expertise and resources to nations that need clean drinking water?"
I agree that Canadians should try to help other nations solve their problems. The best way would be making sure they have access to birth control.
There is no point in giving other countries the utmost water and sewage technology if it just means they'll grow their population so much that they'll make extinct all of their native species. Canada can't possibly play the parent of every other country in the world let alone allow in everyone who wants to immigrate here.
We must help other countries in their country of origin, when appropriate. Bringing them here is not a solution. We are a cold, arctic land with hardly any arable land and we are liquidating all of our fossil resources as exports to the point where in a few decades we won't even be able to sustain our present population.
What does Sean mean by "close off the border" when he says "It doesn't make any sense to just close off the border and seclude ourselves from the world"?
Is having a negative net migration synonymous with "closing off the border"?
If we have more freshwater than the rest of the world per capita, is it really ours to play Santa Claus with or should we protect it for all the salmon, otters, brook trout, etc that call Canada home?
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