Perfect Deng Ms. Tennant Challenge and Change in Society HSB 4M
2012/1/19
ABSTRACT
An interview about will the decreasing population rate have a negative impact on society in Canada was interviewed. Two Thousand Island Secondary School students and one's student father and homestay mom expounded about their opinions. There is no denying that any country are faced with this issue now. The world is facing the population expansion, the aging of the population issue. The population trend of Canada is decreasing so that population aging is a big problem and population rate will impact many ways on society in Canada (such as economic) so the governments have to deal with this problem about population rate (Population growth rate, aging population) was proved by the interview and secondary data from the internet.
Since 1830’s the world reached 1 billion, the world population today (2011) is 6.9 billion. It was a big world increase but it is unbalanced between different countries. Until very recently there were fears that in the next century, world population would explode to some 12 billion people, leaving little room for wilderness areas to preserve wildlife and putting extreme pressure on food production, water and non-renewable resources. For example, Let's talk about Canada, The 2011 Canadian census counted a total population of 33,476,688, an increase of around 5.9 percent over the 2006 figure. Between 1990 and 2008, the population increased by 5.6 million, equivalent to 20.4 percent overall growth. The main drivers of population growth are immigration and, to a lesser extent, natural growth. So it population rate is really an issue in Canada? Is Immigration are