How many people can it support? Wetlands comprise 14% of Canada. And even if we did have the “space,” space is not carrying capacity, is it? Antarctica has space.
The “fat,” that portion of our country deemed unfit for human habitation, is far too high.
If Canada attended an NHL hockey training camp and had to submit to that body fat composition test, it would be flunked out of camp the first day. Many of our “rooms” are bogs, marshes, wetlands, frozen permafrost unfit for construction, fens, taiga shields, boreal forests, mountains and lakes. No Room at Canada’s Ecological Inn The sad fact is, however, there is no room at the Ecological Inn called Canada. In answering a critic about the stress that immigration was placing on our major cities, she offered the opinion that New Canadians could simply be deflected to the depopulated regions of the country like rural Nova Scotia or northern Saskatchewan, conjuring up the image of Canada as a capacious hotel fit for many permanent guests. Green Party leader Elizabeth May is among the most ardent advocates of this all-party gospel of denial, and on Septemon CBC radio, she made a remarkable revelation that exposed her ignorance of Canada’s reality. A tropical cornucopia needing only greater input of cheap labour and capital to liberate a treasure trove of resources. The Cold Hard Truth about Canada by Tim Murray Canadian Shield Canadian Shield To listen to Canadian federal leaders speak of their ambitions of boosting our immigration intake from its absurdly high level of a quarter million migrants a year to 1% of the country’s population level and beyond one would think that Canada is the Garden of Eden.
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