Our liberal politicians—US and Canada—are like infected zombies. “Muslim immigration is great.” “It will help us with our demographic crisis.” “It’s our way.”
The problem is, we in the West, are not making enough kids to even replace ourselves. With the baby boomers retired or soon to be retired and living longer, healthier lives, someone has to pay for this. Politicians, especially those on the left, who are ‘smarter than the rest of us’, figure they can import muzzies and ‘tame’ them with materialism.
Unfortunately, few Canadians have contributed much to RRSPs (401(k), I believe the US equivalent is), so most are dependent on government pensions. It is easier for a politician to ‘import’ people to pay pension contributions (for retirees’ pensions) and keep the tax rate low, than to bring up the hard truth of either, cut benefits or increase taxes. (As a side note, several years ago, Harper increased the age to draw Canada Pension Plan benefits to 67. Trudeau has already dropped it back to 65.)
A friend thinks that tax breaks and benefits should be provided for families to have more kids. The problem is, it would be 20 years until those kids were contributing tax revenue; pols can’t/won’t wait that long. His plan will not work. For perhaps two decades, Québec had (maybe still has) a ‘baby bonus’ program that paid handsomely, higher benefits the more kids you had. They did this to grow the Québécois population, so as not to be overwhelmed by English. It failed miserably. Instead of ‘pur laine’ Québécois babies, they got thousands of African and Muslim babies!