As of 1 October 2023, StatsCan estimates the country’s population as 40,528,396 and growing at a phenomenal rate. The quarterly increase of 430,635 people (+1.1%) was the highest population growth rate in any quarter since the second quarter of 1957.
Since forever, we’ve been thinking of Canada’s population as one-tenth that of the US — one Canadian for every ten in the US. Now it’s one for every 8.5.
Hence the public comments and articles about the lack of housing to accommodate those numbers. Cheers, BT