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Reproductions: Great news! Canadians have finally started having more babies, which means we can rest easy, at least for now, about the nation’s depopulation sitiuation. The Ceeb has more:

Canada's fertility rate reached a 10-year high in 2006, when women aged 30 to 34 had more babies than women aged 25 to 29 for the first time, Statistics Canada said Friday.

The total fertility rate — the average number of children per women — rose to 1.59 in 2006, up from 1.54 in 2005, the agency's health statistic division said in its report on births.

The replacement level fertility, or the level of fertility the population needs to replace itself from one generation to the next, is 2.1 in Canada.

"The recent increase in births could be explained partly by the fact that many women from the echo generation [those born between 1988 and 1995] had entered their childbearing years and their fertility rates edged up," the report said...

Yes, that must explain it—those “echo” chicks have decided to be fecund and multiply. Of course, there could be another reason, one that doesn’t seem to factor into the StatsCan reckonings, but one which some smarty-pants at the Ceeb seems to have considered, since this link—Immigration critical to population growth: census—appears next to the above story on the Ceeb’s website (my bolds):

Immigrants made up the vast majority of the 1.6 million new Canadians between 2001 and 2006, giving the country the highest population growth rate among G8 countries, new census data released Tuesday suggests.

Canada's population stands at 31,612,897, with a growth rate of 5.4 per cent during that five-year period.

That's up from the four per cent growth rate in the previous census period between 1996 and 2001.

Roughly 1.2 million new immigrants made up the bulk of the population growth outlined in the latest census, while the country's native-born population increased by 400,000.

"Our natural growth rate is lower [than] in the U.S. for example. Sixty per cent of their growth rate came from natural growth," said Anil Arora, the director general of Statistics Canada's census branch.

The fertility rate for Canadian women between 15 and 49 remained an average of 1.5 children, the same rate as in the previous census period. The fertility rate in the U.S. is 2.0.

An average 240,000 newcomers per year more than compensated for Canada's flat fertility rate…

And from where, pray tell, are the bulk of our newcomers arriving? This map helps provide a snapshot:

 

Oh.

Update: Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders describes the "baby boom" in Europe to an American audience:

...The Europe you know is changing. You have probably seen the landmarks. The Eiffel Tower and Trafalgar Square and Rome’s ancient buildings and maybe the canals of Amsterdam. They are still there. And they still look very much the same as they did a hundred years ago.

But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world, a world very few visitors see – and one that does not appear in your tourist guidebook. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration. All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighbourhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It’s the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corner. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighbourhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule...

Posted by: scaramouche at 09:54 | link | comments (2)

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#1  28 September 2008 - 16:02

 

Every. Single. Yurpean. Shibboleth. Attacked.

Can one imagine a Canucki pol delivering such a speech?

Anonymous

#2  28 September 2008 - 17:48

 

Couldn't, wouldn't, be delivered here, not while we worship the false God, Multiculturalism, and the scourges who enforce political correctness, the HRCs. And certainly not while the Section 13s remain in effect.

scaramouche

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