What’s the difference between an advocacy movement and a radical ideology? The Century Initiative makes an ideal case study. The group bills itself as a “national nonpartisan movement”—and perhaps it once was back in 2011, when its founders first set their minds to tripling Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100. After all, there were once physicians who thought smoking was healthy.
These days, it would be utter insanity for your family doctor to suggest picking up a pack of Marlboros. The connection between smoking and lung cancer, among other ills, is clear. Yet so is the connection between rocketing immigration numbers beyond the stratosphere of sustainability and harms like housing unaffordability, collapsing infrastructure, wage suppression, and rising unemployment ...
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