Some of you seem to be saying more people means a healthier economy, some others seem to be saying that being poor is a choice at the same time forgetting about unforseen circumstances, etc.
So far, population growth has resulted in a poorer Earth and has only arguably resulted in better economy. As far as gov'ts go, the bigger they are the less effective they are and the more inefficient they are. Actually that goes for corporations and large companies, too. People have a tendency to make things bigger and more complicated.
Anyway, the more people you acquire, the less able you are to feed and house them simply because they like to live where food could be grown.
Developing a better form of gov't might help. But people in Canada don't seem to care about that; they like the dichotomy and big gov't that exists. Better the devil you know? BS Our gov'ts for the past I don't know how many decades have no sense of priority. Although I like the idea of helping make a secure place for women and children to live in Afghanistan, people HERE aren't living very securely. Our healthcare system is a joke in comparison to what it used to be. That's a direct result of a lack of maintenance. School systems? Another joke.
The answer is that Canadians need to quit bickering about which gov't works better and other such pettiness, group together and tell the gov'ts to smarten up and do their jobs and quit bending over backwards for companies and corporations instead of people, or get the hell out of the way. And quit listening to lobbyists and pay more attention to researchers. But that'll never happen, we are too busy bickering about the symptoms amongst ourselves. Also, we need to pay better attention to what we eat and how we treat the mechanism that feeds us.
*sheepish look* Sorry bout the rant.
