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Statistics showing the future working population expectations for Canada do not make for happy viewing, but increased immigration may be a solution.
A study by Urban Futures has uncovered a fundamental shift in the population of Canada. Birthrates fell below the 2.1 babies-per-mother replacement level in 1970 and have stayed there ever since. Meanwhile the country has one of the longest life expectancies in the world. As a result of this, the number of Canadians aged between 70 and 89 will double by 2035 to 6.4 million, and by 2055 a million people are expected to live until they are 90.

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In their homelands, they were engineers, professors, doctors and business people. Now, they drive cabs.
There are more than 9,000 taxi drivers in Greater Toronto. Depending on whom you ask, as many as 40 per cent are professionals who have been unable to find work in their chosen field.
Their own Canadian dreams shattered, they work so their children can have a better future.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Where’s Sanjay?
The question comes from one of dozens of engineers around a crowded conference table at Google. They have gathered to discuss how to build easy-to-use maps that could turn hundreds of millions of mobile phones into digital Sherpas — guiding travelers to businesses, restaurants and landmarks.
“His plane gets in at 9:30,” the group’s manager responds.
Google is based here in Silicon Valley. But Sanjay G. Mavinkurve, one of the key engineers on this project, is not.
Mr. Mavinkurve, a 28-year-old Indian immigrant who helped lay the foundation for Facebook while a student at Harvard, instead works out of a Google sales office in Toronto, a lone engineer among marketers.
He has a visa to work in the United States, but his wife, Samvita Padukone, also born in India, does not. So he moved to Canada.

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Michael Adams
President of Environics and author of Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Multiculturalism
Rahul K. Bhardwaj
President and CEO, Toronto Community Foundation
While many Torontonians fret about the security of their jobs, the declining value of their homes and/or their retirement savings tumbling into a deep hole, some lie awake wondering whether economic hardship will lead their city into another kind of dark valley: that of social division and even ethnic strife.

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A low priority in some homelands, tooth care then often becomes an unaffordable extra in Canada
“It seems incredible now,” says the website of Scotland’s National Health Service, “but it was routinely expected that people would come in to the surgery to have all their teeth taken out” in the early days of the health service.

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