Canadian Population Policy

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FACTS:

-Canada is importing about 250,000 immigrants annually (70\% of Canada's 1\% annual population growth), which will result in a doubling of our population to 66 million in 70 years

-Canada's best farm land is being paved over to expand subdivisions, roads and businesses to accomodate all these new immigrants

-Canada's natural resources are being plundered at a rate proportional to its population

-As Canada's population grows, its biodiversity declines proportionally

ASSERTION:

We, the undersigned believe that:

Canada needs an official population policy based on an optimum population.
The optimum population should be lower than Canada's present population in order to:

-preserve what is left of biodiversity and still allow each Canadian a generous share of space and natural resources

-maximize survival chances for Canadians as fossil resources are exhausted

-set a good example for the world to follow in hopes that other countries will reduce their populations to sustainable levels

52 Signatures

  • Peter Salonius
    • Comments
    • Biodiversity First is a perfect follow-up to the [now] disbanded SCIENTISTS FOR POPULATION REDUCTION
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Durham Bridge, New Brunswick, CANADA
  • Rick Shea
    • Comments
    • Biodiversity First, For a Living Planet
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Salmon Arm, British Columbia
  • Brishen Hoff
    • Comments
    • Canada would be a more pleasant place to live with 1 million than with 33 million and 33 million is not sustainable without complicated technologies dependent on fossil fuels. We need to tell the Canadian government that we want to stop and reverse population growth! Here is my blog: http://ecologicalcrash.blogspot.com
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Northern Ontario
  • Monica Smith
    • Comments
    • Population growth damages the quality of the lives of Canadians, wildlife and the environment in many ways
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Ontario
  • Connie Miller
    • Comments
    • I don't like to say anything bad about immigrants but I believe that our population needs to be controlled to protect our planet and its flora and fauna.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • London, Ontario
  • J. K. Leslie
    • Comments
    • There is no worldwide awakening to effects of population growth. As regards Canada, it is the effects on biota, not humans, that concerns me. Let there be zero human population growth!
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Burlington ON
  • John Zeger
    • Comments
    • We need to set an optimal population for Canada.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Kelowna, BC
  • dan mayo
    • Comments
    • stabilize population now
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Carp, Ontario
  • Don Owers
    • Comments
    • I hope that this policy will be adopted by all nations.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Newcastle NSW Australia
  • Tim Murray
    • Comments
    • Land use planning cannot eliminate the negative ecological impact of immigration
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Quadra Island, BC
  • Dan Murray of Immigration Watch Canada.org
    • Comments
    • Unlike the populations in most countries, Canada's population is increasing largely because of federal immigration policy. If Canada's immigration levels (which are both abnormal and unnecessary) were reduced dramatically, Canada's population would soon stabilize. That should be Canada's immediate goal. At the same time, Canada should reduce the per capita consumption of its population. This two-pronged approach should be Canada's way to reduce GHG emissions. It makes no sense to say that as long as we reduce our consumption levels, we can continue to bring in large numbers of immigrants. The added consumption of the new arrivals will soon negate any consumption reduction that had been achieved. By adopting this GHG reduction policy, Canada could be setting an example for all other countries (particularly immigrant-receiving countries) to follow.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Vancouver, B.C.
  • Ross Bateman
    • Comments
    • The development of an official Canadian population policy is logical, morally responsible, and long overdue. There is a palpable and obstructive glass ceilng that is coldly stopping the rational discussion of this issue, and exposing advocates of biodiversity in dark, lame vilification. Only a critical-mass upswelling of the simple truths will break through into the enlightenment beyond... that we humans can indeed make bright decisions that can be protective of this richly natural planet.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Norfolk County, Ontario
  • bob kemnitz
    • Comments
    • fully endorse
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • australia
  • Steve Cartwright
    • Comments
    • We have detroyed enough. If we tell others not to destroy and to reduce their populations then we should follow what we say.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Windosr Ontario
  • C. Macfie
    • Comments
    • I believe our environment takes precendence over the economy. If we do not provide wise stewardship over our land base (natural resources) we will have no economy to work with. Long term sustainable and ecological principles are the best alternative for a new economic model. The planet and our country is a finite physical space and cannot support any more people.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Parksville, BC
  • Daniel Brown
    • Comments
    • One of MANY things that need to be done to live in better harmony with the biosphere
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Beaconsfield, Quebec
  • Lance Carlson
    • Comments
    • Touchy subject but needs to be explored.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Toronto
  • Hannah Dillon
    • Comments
    • I am a green-girl, so I would sign this a million times!
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Regina, Sask.
  • Derrick Tully
    • Comments
    • many have seen our current world troubles coming. Farley Mowat's "Sea Of Slaughter" and even sci-fi movies like "Solyent Green" see a bleak possible future if we refuse to act in a sane realistic manner NOW! Before it's too late and nature/GOD balances our population in nasty ways.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Norwood, Ontario
  • Nicholas Marlatte
    • Comments
    • Wonderful!
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Saskatoon, Sk
  • Erica Myers
    • Comments
    • environnement and animals, especially endangered
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Chatham, ON
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    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • GreatBritain
  • ming
    • Comments
    • the immigration level is too high ,should reduce to 1/2
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • vancouver,bc
  • Michael Cook
    • Comments
    • I fully support this policy
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Toronto, Ontario
  • Richard Bisson
    • Comments
    • Stop immigration
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Ontario
  • Bonnie Bukwa
    • Comments
    • I myself am an immigrant, so it might seem hypocritical to sign this petition, but I am not suggesting there should be no option for modest levels of immigration, but rather human migration should not function as a way to 'fill up' less populated countries. Ideally, nations should set reasonable population goals that allow a good standard of living for their citizens while maintaining ample wild land and biodiversity. Policies that aid in achieving the goals should be instituted and immigration policies can be adjusted to reflect the goals. There will always be some emigration that can counterbalance immigration so that a healthy degree of social mixing can prevent cultural isolation and stagnation. If nations can adjust their population levels down to sustainable numbers those entering as legal immigrants (and visitors) should be welcomed rather than encountering the dread of the current citizens. Modest levels of legal immigration is fine so long as it does not fuel population growth.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Wardner, BC
  • Leon Kolankiewicz
    • Comments
    • I support this petition as a former resident of Canada and one who would have stayed on in this beautiful, biologically-outstanding, but beleaguered country if the immigration laws at the time would have allowed for it. Instead I moved to Alaska.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Reston, Virginia (formerly of Vancouver, B.C.)
  • Robert Stephen
    • Comments
    • ecosystems can withstand outside pressures to a certain degree. Once beyond that level the structure starts to break down as is evident worldwide at an alarming rate. Population is the core of the problem enhanced by capitalisim and GREED.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Melbourne
  • Menkit Prince
    • Comments
    • Population Policies must change globally if we are to save this world.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Australia
  • Alexandra Dickens
    • Comments
    • I agree with immigrants being allowed into the country but, not when the numbers are so high and it puts the country in such risk as that
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Australia
  • Vivienne Ortega
    • Comments
    • We in Australia are going down the same way
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Victoria, Australia
  • Murray Hill
    • Comments
    • We need to reduce the world population by one third over the next two generations. Canada must set an example.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Brampton, Ontario
  • John M. Hill
    • Comments
    • I heartily agree
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • RR#1 Harrow ON
  • Bea Ortega
    • Comments
    • We in Australia are going down the same way
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Melbourne, Victoria
  • France Dombrowski
    • Comments
    • At last, someone who dares to speak out!
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Quebec City
  • Randall Fry
    • Comments
    • UNBELIEVABLE!!! Any one of these brainwashed sheep want to step forward and offer themselves or their family up for CULLING? I thought not. So what if Canada's population doubles in SEVENTY years? This is one of the biggest land masses on the planet. If we weren't prostituting our natural resources to the Corporate Global Elite, then we would stand a 100\% chance of surviving very nicely. Face the facts, if we as humans feel we have such a major impact on this planets' mean temperature, then I guess we're more powerful a force than the sun, Volcanoes, Wildfires and magnetic pole shifting. What a bunch of egotistical lambs. Why not get involved in something useful, like finding out what the military aircraft are spraying on us daily, (and have been since the mid '90's). Is that the kind of population control you want? Sterilization and Disease from the sky, at the will of the Council on Foreign Relations? Sadly - I think it is too late to turn this thing around. Maybe the next cycle of humanity will be smarter
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Edmonton, Alberta
  • Matthew
    • Comments
    • Action MUST be taken
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Saint-Dorothee, Laval, Quebec( former farmland now turned into shopping central)
  • Alexander Reyes Rowson
    • Comments
    • Unchecked immigration = unlimited breeding of low-IQ populations and loss of human national diversity
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • San Francisco, California
  • david rioux
    • Comments
    • I've lost all my favorite fishing spots because of population growth, quality of life is going down as well as salary's...
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Sept-Iles
  • Dave Storozuk
    • Comments
    • Enough economic refugee's already
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Lorette, Mb.
  • corinne skulmoski
    • Comments
    • This slow motion train wreck of over population should have been dealt with 50 yrs. ago.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Devon Ab.
  • B.Hein
    • Comments
    • Canada should have dealt with this problem years ago. It is fine to allow educated individuals and perhaps their small immediate families to settle in our country, but we must stop all immigrants that are not compatible with Canadian values and our way of life. People need to fix the issues in their home countries rather than running from their national problems and burdening our resources. Canada should seek to maintain the existing population and not accept the economic growth fallacy pushed by large corporations seeking low cost employees. We will no longer be the world's refugee dumping ground. Canada should always be a country with a relatively small populace and massive wilderness. We are creating a "Tragedy of the Commons" in our own backyard. Imagine the mess our great grand children will have to deal with if we allow mass immigration to continue. Coming to Canada should be a very rare privilege rather than a free pass.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • Robert Bйriault
    • Comments
    • Canada is in an enviable position because here it is not too late to save what's left of the environment we depend on for our sustenance and comfortable lifestyle. The population of Canada has tripled since I was born. Another tripling would be disastrous. There is no time to lose.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Gatineau, QC
  • Madeline Weld, President, Population Institute of Canada
    • Comments
    • Without population stabilization and reduction, ecocide and human misery will rise apace.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Ottawa, Ontario
  • Ian Whyte
    • Comments
    • We need de-growth for the next century!
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Ontario
  • Andrew Clarke
    • Comments
    • I strongly believe that a population policy encompassing the above proposals is a most important action on Canada's agenda.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Balderson. ON
  • Kailee Bryant
    • Comments
    • There are currently far to many people in canada, there are not enough resources to sustain us all especially with the current rate of increase due to imigration.
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Blackstock, Ontario
  • george strong
    • Comments
    • to many people globally
    • Location (eg: City, Province)
    • Toronto