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The worst part is that current policy will have us blast through that 700,000 figure 20 years earlier than the above estimate.
The current policy driving population growth is immigration.
That's not an anti-immigration comment, merely stating the obvious.
Population here is still growing through natural increase (but won't be when the Baby Boomers start to pass on in larger numbers)...
But regardless, the big drivers are immigration (in the sense of immigrants and refugees)........and also the 'Temporary' residents that permitted in the form
of foreign students and Temporary Foreign Workers.
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Policies on IZ are about how to cope w/the population growth, not how to slow it down.
Canada, this year, in the midst of a pandemic will hit target of more than 400,000 immigrants.
The GGH typically recieves 35% of the overall Canadian number.
That would be 134,000 this year.
Assuming The City of Toronto takes a similar percentage of GGH growth as in 2019, that will be about 80,000 new residents in the City.
The Feds are planning on further bumping the limit.
Assuming that unfolds as it seems, the City of Toronto will add 700,000 residents in less than 10 years.