Is immigration a risk to the birthrate?
Is Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s theory that immigration would reduce the birthrate of locals a polite way to advance the great replacement theory?
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yasymbologist 22:42 on 2024-10-28 Permalink
thank god, it’s the immigrants to blame, again. I used to think discreetly that it’s the late-stage capitalism derailed worldwide fertility rate.
Ephraim 09:24 on 2024-10-29 Permalink
Is his next idea to make condoms and contraceptives illegal, forcing women to have children against their will? Are we really going to follow the path of “The Handmaid’s Tale”?
If the goal is to encourage people to have more children, we need to focus on building a thriving society. People should feel secure, knowing there is a social safety net to support them both financially and socially. They need assurance of having food on the table, access to hospitals and healthcare, and support from nurses and other services. The whole Maslow’s Pyramid. This issue isn’t about immigrants; in fact, immigrants contribute to the tax base necessary to ensure this sense of security.
Joey 11:43 on 2024-10-29 Permalink
PQ leader gonna PQ lead… remember this little gem from Lucien Bouchard during the late stages of the 1995 referendum campaign: « les Québécois sont l’une des races blanches qui fait le moins d’enfants au monde ».
The La Presse article doesn’t seem to make any reference to the birthrate of locals, I wonder if it’s been edited without a notice. Le Devoir covers it here: https://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/822544/plan-reduction-immigration-parti-quebecois?
walkerp 11:48 on 2024-10-29 Permalink
I had a brief period of naive ignorance when I thought that when we get the CAQ out of here the PQ will at least be better about social programs. Completely forgot their entire playbook has been based on racist ethnonationalism for a while now. Depressing.
bob 10:46 on 2024-10-30 Permalink
Locals have a birthrate? I’ve heard that kids today aren’t even having sex any more.
@Ephraim – “They need assurance of having food on the table, access to hospitals and healthcare, and support from nurses and other services.” – and they don’t need kids for any of that, or anything in Maslow’s hierarchy, least of all for self-actualisation. Since the 50’s the West in general and Quebec in particular has drifted into a supremely narcissistic mode based firmly in an ideology of selfish, greedy individualism. No room for children in that lifestyle.
@walkerp – Is there a party in Quebec that is not based in Quebecois nationalism, or at least panders to it?
walkerp 11:39 on 2024-10-30 Permalink
Depends on how you define “nationalism”. I’d say QS toes the line of sovereignty but doesn’t actually propose any legislation that attacks minority groups.
Orr 17:10 on 2024-11-01 Permalink
Well the Catholic church is still against condoms, masturbation, and sex for pleasure. Sex is for making babies, they preach, to the elderly still going to church every Sunday morning.