Escape the silk stocking radicals; move to Canada

Just as the United States appears to be squandering its legacy of individual freedom and opportunity in favor of rule by silk stocking radicals, a safety valve appears to be opening up on our border.

Canada, it seems, is on course to run out of people.

Like other developed societies, Canada has a low birth rate. It isn't just that Canadian couples are wary of child-rearing; it's that, for many, hockey wins out over sex.

For years, Canada has been trying to deal with the problem by welcoming immigrants. But this hasn't worked very well because immigrants often choose the United States. The health care here is better. No long waits for service. Just show up at the emergency room door. Illegal immigrants get faster care in the United States than legals do in Canada.

The result is that immigration can't make up for the shortfall in Canadian births attributable to the popularity of childlessness and hockey.

How bad is the prospect of depopulation?

A new study shows that "the current influx of immigrants — about 0.67 per cent of the resident population — barely makes a dent.

The data show that the only way immigration could offset the declining birth rate is if Canada dismantles border controls and floods the country with well over a half million immigrants a year.

Even then, the government would need to impose rigid "age filters" to ensure that only young people are among the new arrivals."

Chances are, however, that the study did not embrace the possibility of mass migration of Americans to Canada, Americans who are appalled as the silk stocking radicals grab more and more power through the big lie of global warming and the over-hyped flaws of the world's best medical care.

Journalist Mark Steyn is a student of demographics. Here he is on National Review's Corner:

"The transformation of developed societies - either into old folks' homes (like Japan) or semi-Islamized dystopias (like Amsterdam, Brussels, etc) - will lead, in fact, to emigration. A young German or Japanese circa 2040 will have no reason whatsoever to stay in his native land and have most of his income confiscated in a vain attempt to prop up an unsustainable geriatric welfare system. So many will leave. Where will they go? At one time the obvious answer would have been America - but Good King Barack seems determined to saddle us with the same unaffordable entitlements that have scuttled the rest of the west.

"For much of the developed world, the 'credit crunch', the debt burden, and the rest are not part of a cyclical economic downturn but the first manifestations of an existential crisis."