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[2banana]

The Pope is right - howver - the answer is complicated.

[MinuteGal]

Shouldn't be complicated at all. Since Canada is socialized and the government (populace) pays for everything but hockey pucks, why not nationalize childbearing?

Have the government (populace) issue a hefty bonus check and a lifetime pass to the Calgary Stampede for every child brought to term and born.

Childless couples would be forbidden to spend the winters in Florida.

Watch the birthrate boom to unprecedented levels.

Leni

[trebb]

Isaiah 13:11-13 (New International Version) New International Version (NIV) Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

11 I will punish the world for its evil,
the wicked for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty
and will humble the pride of the ruthless.

12 I will make man scarcer than pure gold,
more rare than the gold of Ophir.

13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;
and the earth will shake from its place
at the wrath of the LORD Almighty,
in the day of his burning anger.

It would seem that the lower birthrates in so many countries is another Biblical prophesy being fulfilled...

[JustDoItAlways]

Why single out Canada?

Italy's fertility rate (number of children per woman: 2.0 is the rate required to maintain the population) is only 1.28.

Germany's (his home country) is 1.31.

While Canada's is 1.61.

[Pietro]

"He recently suggested a lack of true love was behind an increase in failed marriages and a decrease in birthrates across the developed world."

I can think of no truer statement on the calamity of our era!

True love.

The love that emanates from God.

[Aquinasfan]

I used to think that it would be harder to be a priest in a poor country than in a wealthy society. But it's obvious to me now that it's much harder to be a priest in an affluent society. It's very difficult to afflict the comfortable without alienating them.

Personal gratification moves toward the top of the list. The '60s slogan "if it feels good, do it," has become the mantra for an entire society.

The problem is endemic in the West.

[thinking]

and of course, he is an expert on marriage, and the art of procreation.....

[Catholic Canadian]

I'd love to have children if it weren't for the fact that every Canadian woman I've dated over the last 2 years weren't a hardcore pro-abortion feminist or turned out to be messed up on drugs. I know this statement sounds outlandish but it's true.

[weegee]

Low birthrate? We have a solution, cheap Mexican immigrants. We'll just tell them to keep heading north. Free healthcare up there, right?

[jpl]

God bless Canada, eh.

[George W. Bush]

Canadian leaders and media people should thank him for addressing their serious demographic problem. It seems it's the eight-hundred-pound elephant in the corner that no one wants to mention.

[aquila48]

"Fair enough. We live in a free country, where no one is forced to believe anything they don't wish to believe. No one could argue against that."

Where has this guy been? The islamists argue loudly against that!!!

[Antoninus]

New figures by Statistics Canada project there'll be more seniors over age 65 than children under 15 by 2015. By 2031, the number of seniors could be double the number of children.

These are scary stats coming from a country as important to the US as Canada.

A society that doesn't reproduce is sick, by definition. It's not just Canada. Western civilization is sick. Hopefully, the illness isn't mortal.

[RightWhale]

It wouldn't be wise to antagonize Canada. Canada could build nuke weapons even before Iran. Canada could also build aircraft carriers and nuke bombers even before France. That Canada is not a space power on their own is merely because they have chosen to cooperate with NASA and ESA. There is a superpower lurking up there in the Great White North that could be real anytime they want.

[redgolum]

Oh man this is going to be a fun thread.

For later.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Something I'm curious about.. what percentage of Canadians are Catholic?

[Mr. Mojo]

....which simply means Canada's population is turning away from organized religion.

Not really. Hockey is as popular as ever.

[Candor7]

Hey, I would be happy to visit Canada and try to help the men out, up there!

[JBR34]

What's the birthrate in Vatican City? I'd bet it's below Italy's. Seems like the pot is calling the kettle black.