Dear Colleague:
Facing a severe downturn in its numbers, sparsely populated Canada may
open the floodgates to immigration, with all the problems this will
entail. The obvious solution to Canada's demographic woes-ending
abortion--is overlooked. If all the babies now sacrificed to abortion
were allowed to live, the birthrate would jump above replacement in nine
months. But the pro-abortion movement would sooner die than admit this.
Steven W. Mosher
President
PRI Weekly Briefing
23 August 2004
Vol. 6 / No. 28
Canada's Rude Surprise
The nation of Canada is the latest Western country to receive a rude
shock; namely, that it doesn't have enough children. Reporter Norma
Greenaway reported for the CanWest News Service in the "National Post"
of
August 9, a story headlined, "'Import' More Youngsters, Ottawa Urged:
Immigrants, Refugees: Needed to Counter Declining Fertility Rate, Analyst
Says." 1
The analyst in question is Tom Kent, whom Greenaway labels "a one-time
social policy guru for the Liberal party." Greenaway writes that "Kent
was
a senior policy advisor to Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and was one of
the chief architects of some 1960s social programs, among them medicare
and the Canada-Quebec Pensions Plan."
Kent's essay appears in the August issue of Policy Options magazine, which
explores social policy options for the 21st century and is published by
Canada's Institute for Research and Public Policy. 2
According to Greenaway, Kent says, "In the early 20th century, the
immigrants most needed were farmers. Later, they were skilled industrial
workers. In this century, the need is different again. Youth is prime."
Greenaway cites Kent saying the federal government must shift to a
youth-oriented immigration policy because the diminished fertility rate
has produced a scarcity of children in Canada.
Canada's Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), in a press release also dated
August 9, entitled "The Absurdity of Canada's Need for More Young
Immigrants Points Out the Decimation of Our Population by The Aborting of
Our Children." 3
Jim Hughes, National President of CLC, said "We have been pointing out for
years that the deliberate removal of two and one-half million children
from Canada's population by abortion will have serious economic
repercussions as well as moral ones. Our aging population will have no
financial base to keep our economy healthy and growing. Mr. Kent and the
policies of the Federal Liberal Party are in large part responsible for
the current situation."
Mary Ellen Douglas, national organizer of CLC, added, "It has been said
that God always forgives, people sometimes, nature never. We have failed
to recognize that our most precious Canadian resource is our own
children."
Abortion is the primary culprit, but the West's obsession with
contraception and the idea that children are something to be avoided, and
only lauded as accessories to self-fulfillment, is also to blame.
For over a decade and a half PRI has been warning that, if Western nations
continued in their irrational anti-natalist policies at home and abroad,
depopulation would follow. Yet abroad Canada still promotes alarmist
"family planning" measures in the developing world. Frequently
at odds
with the local culture and religion, these destroy the only means of
social security known to poor peoples-children.
Now the same people who gave Canada legalized abortion at home and
population control abroad are saying that we need the children we have
been so cavalierly eliminating.
Are the population controllers going to come out and say they've been
wrong? Don't bet on it. It would be fun to watch their contortions if the
future of Canada and the West weren't at stake.
Endnotes:
1. National Post, '"Import' more youngsters, Ottawa urged: Immigrants,
refugees: Need to counter declining fertility rate, analyst says;" Norma
Greenaway, CanWest News Service, August 9, 2004.
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=589e2d96-3058-4eba-b572-ad538c327c51
2. "'In the National Interest': A Social Policy Agenda for A New Century -
Restore Cooperative Federalism, Modernize Medicare, put Children first;"
Tom Kent; Policy Options magazine; August 2004;
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/aug04/kent.pdf
3. Canada's Campaign Life Coalition; press release, August 9, 2004: "The
absurdity of Canada's need for more young immigrants points out the
decimation of our population by the aborting of our children."
http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/press/2004/040809theabsurdity.html
Endnotes
[1] Montgomery Advertiser editorial of July 7, 2004.
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