The federal government’s recent announcement that it would boost annual immigration to half a million people per year by 2025 coincides with conflicts over Ottawa’s Online News Act and the Competition Bureau’s blocking of a proposed merger between telecommunications giants Shaw and Rogers.
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While these developments may appear to be unrelated, they aren’t. They raise questions about how Canada’s population growth might affect the changing media landscape and its ability to inform and underpin our democracy.
Few policy prescriptions have more transformative potential than the deceptively simple idea of doubling or tripling our population.
An influential slice of elite opinion — represented by a non-profit group called the Century Initiative — was echoed in…
