One mark of a healthy society with a bright future is one with babies, says economist Ross McKitrick — “a lot of babies and children being born and raised here. And that’s not happening.”
McKitrick is the author of a new analysis on Canada’s free-falling birth rate, which has been steadily declining for 15 years and now sits well below 2.1 births, on average, per woman, the level needed to replace the population.
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