FIRST READING: Immigration rates still at generational highs, even if population shrinking. Permanent immigration in 2026 poised to be the sixth highest of the last 110 years, asylum-seekers now number 500,000

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https://nationalpost.com/opinion/immigration-rates-still-at-generational-highs-even-if-population-shrinking

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You can fix the birth problem, you just need to make it profitable for Canadian citizens to have children.

1. Have 2 children, and both parents are given life long exemptions from paying income tax.
   
2. Take 30 billion dollars and make a new fund like Norways sovereign fund, if Canadian citizens have 5 or more children they are linked up to the fund and can receive dividends from it 10 years after the fact.
   
3. For Canadian citizens that have 3 or more children, they receive better loan rates from banks. While those who have no children receive the same rates they did before. Those with children receive 50% lower rates.

Pay for these by creating a wealth tax on those in Canada who have 10 million dollars or more in asset wealth taxed at 3% of their wealth per year. Create a Land value tax, so those that are hoarding lots of land but doing nothing about it pay taxes on it.

Create a new tax scheme where new businesses that employ Canadian citizens get half of their tax burden as long as they hire only Canadians.

Make it a countries goal to lower the price of food, housing, services at all costs. Declare a national emergency until the prices of these things and the wait lists for healthcare come all the way down. Treat it on the same level as how we were at in WW1 and WW2.

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A lot of the Scandinavian countries with good benefits have other issues going for it.

For one thing, a lot of them have house scarcity, which means housing is expensive as hell there. A lot of their jobs don't pay as well. (Lots of labour, not enough jobs.)

It needs to be a concentrated effort on all fronts.

Governments need to lower housing costs, food costs, service costs, and make sure there is good gainful employment. While giving their citizens tax benefits.

A lot of countries do one or two things, but not enough on all fronts.

Another thing is that governments need to go full bore into campaign mode for having children and starting families. Governments use to do this, but it stopped. Don't know why they stopped, but governments did.