Our ample 100,000+ yearly taxpayer-paid abortions in this country aren’t enough. So as if to ensure that they cover every single liberal-left-wing talking point, Canada’s pretend “news” magazine, Maclean’s, this week loudly provides Canadians with yet another set of arguments for, ultimately, one way or other, not having kids.
Just what Canada needs. Fulfilling every liberal-left and environmental extremist nutball dream come true, Maclean’s seems to thrive in appeasing the left, and driving Canada as we know it off a cliff.
Canada’s left hardly need this additional shout-out from the media; and Canadians hardly need to be driven further in this direction. But that appears to be the cue for Maclean’s to act in exactly that way.
What those of us in the sensible set and readers of Mark Steyn’s fantastic book America Alone already know (ironically Steyn is now a brilliant columnist for Maclean’s, and got into a whack of trouble in Canada’s “human rights” kangaroo “courts” for quoting passages out of that very book), Canada needs to reverse this trendy childless problem because it is in fact one of its major problems. Canada doesn’t need more human population control-minded authors and media scribes to further enhance the problem.
Canada has something like a 1.57 children per couple fertility birth rate, and so it is already far below the 2.1 child per couple “replacement rate” needed just to sustain our own population. (In the Islamic country of Syria: 3.5. And Yemen: 6.58.)
Being far below even the bare minimum replacement this rate, Canada exacerbates its growing inability to finance the growing list of massive government entitlement and social programs, and the massive and growing debts that liberals have incurred for our aging population and all future generations to pay. It’s already happening.
And Canada risks further losing its heritage culture and identity. Maybe that means nothing to you. But if you truly stand for “diversity”, you might want to consider what the Canada would look like if traditional Canadians disappeared. It would look less diverse, not more.
And that part is also happening. Canada’s population has grown only because of its generous and growing immigration allowances from countries like India and China. Traditional or heritage Canadians are shrinking in number, and rapidly. As Steyn points out, in some major European cities, where their replacement rate is abysmal and their heritage populations are shrinking, the most popular newborn baby names these days include Mohammed, and variations thereof. Not Jean-Paul, or Patrick, or Anne.
So no, we don’t need this egregious advice. We don’t need this grief at all.
I would opt for the Weekly Standard instead. Or TownHall.com’s great magazine, which I’ve been getting for some time now. Or try Glenn Beck’s FUSION magazine. Or Human Events.
For my part, I wrote a column a long time ago called “Canada: MAKE BABIES!” (March 9 2007), leaving no doubt where I land on this subject. Not to be outdone by me, but they constantly are anyway, the National Post then wrote a lead editorial called “Start Making Babies” (March 14, 2007), to which I added lots of additional info. Our columnist Barbara Kay wrote a column called “Be fruitful and multiply. Now.” (December 12, 2007).
That’s quality advice. Now get busy, Canadians. Do it for the kids.
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