alt Hacker News>And by the way - Canada needs to invite at least half a million people a year in order to maintain the population at a steady-state. That number is the table stakes.
In 2025 total deaths in Canada were 334,699, totals births were 368,928.
The table stakes is -30,000 immigrants last year.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=171000...
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=171000...
>Why does it need to be rebuilt on anything beyond a regular depreciation schedule in a steady-population situation?
Canada is not at steady state. It's been growing at over 1% since 2000:
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/population-and-demograp...
> In 2025 total deaths in Canada were 334,699, totals births were 368,928.
If you think that's not a problem, stop cherrypicking numbers, and look at Canada's population pyramid. And then tell me what will happen as the big fat middle, that starts at 25... ages out of work. Do you think that little sliver of 0-24s are going to be holding everyone else up?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Canada#/media/...
Those are the numbers you need to be looking at. Oh, and emigration isn't zero, but someone leaving the country isn't counted as a death on the census. 120,000 people emigrated in 2025.