[hipster duck]

I think Canada will plateau in population sometime in the next decade and a half. It took us 40 years to add 14 million people, so I don’t think we’ll add 14 million more in the timeframe I anticipate.

For starters, I think immigration will begin to ratchet down as our major sources of emigration confront their own labour supply and population growth problems, or if automation reaches the point where large swathes of the workforce are no longer needed.

Secondly, all immigration is destined for cities and there is no indication that Canadian governments have built the infrastructure to support these monster cities of tomorrow.

I don’t see how Toronto will support 10 million+ people given that its hobbling along on a base level of infrastructure designed in the 1970s; Vancouver with 5 million? Forget it. Since you can kind of predict infrastructure 20 years out, I don’t see anything in the pipeline that will really change the game in any city.