Do the math: Who will be the Canadians of the future? Where will they live?

Mesopotamia West raises the first awkward question. Kate MacMillan outlines the static or declining future facing most of the country.

Just how multicultural can we afford to be? One thing in particular: I suspect the US gets a significantly greater number of Indian immigrants that one might say belong to the Anglosphere than Canada does.

And what kind of country will it be with more and more of the population living in just six large conurbations? Especially when the makeup of the population in those areas is radically different from most of the rest of the country--deux (peut-être trois) nations indeed.

Note in particular that B.C. and Alberta combined will soon surpass the population of Quebec. Go west, young person. Canada is rapidly becoming a polity utterly dominated by four provinces. They have some 27 million out a total population of just over 31.5 million--almost 86%. And that's where those six conurbations are. Not one's grandfather's Canada. There is moreover an increasingly diminishing, comparatively, Rest of Canada within the RoC as a whole.

Mark C.

Posted by markc at March 14, 2007 08:18 AM