Population Institute Canada

Home
Canada
Ottawa, ON
Population Institute Canada

PIC - Since 1992, the voice of pro-family planning Canadians concerned with overpopulation and its environmental impact.

PIC is the pro-choice voice of Canadians concerned with overpopulation and its negative human and environmental impact. Founded in 1992, it campaigns to increase support for reproductive health and education and for universal, voluntary access to family planning, which the UN notes "...could bring more benefits to more people at less cost than any other single technology available to the human rac

e." Fact: Continued global population growth, together with overconsumption, is incompatible with a healthy, sustainable future for humanity and our planet.

06/04/2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested that the reduction in immigration may have been a factor in creating a “technical recession” (two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction) and this was part of a “settling-in” period during a broader economic transformation. Indeed, the GDP was growing as population growth ran amok when Trudeau brought in over one million people in each of 2022 and 2023, exacerbating a housing crisis, homeless crisis, and foodbank crisis, from all of which Canada is still suffering. This only shows what a totally inadequate measure of actual well-being the GDP is when used as a stand-alone metric. Boosting immigration to “grow the economy” is not what Canada needs. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/carney-says-canadian-economic-data-133909929.html

06/03/2026

In a move to reduce both immigrant and non-immigrant visas, crack down on people who enter on temporary visas but overstay, improve screening and vetting, and operate more efficiently, the Trump administration reducing the number of US embassies and consulates in Africa that can process visas form almost 50 to 20. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/us-to-drastically-slash-the-number-of-embassies-in-africa-that-can-process-visas/ar-AA24zw8y

06/02/2026

"If I sell one daughter, I could feed the rest of my children for at least four years," says an impoverished Afghan in Ghor province. The situation in Afghanistan is beyond dismal, and the Taliban regime is making things much worse. But so is the neglect of family planning. Afghanistan still has a total fertility rate of almost 5 children per woman, and its population has grown from about 20 million in 2000 to over 45 million today. Its current annual growth rate is 2.74%, which translates to a doubling time of under 26 years. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q25dwj807o

06/01/2026

Yes, Trump was gloating when he recently posted on Truth Social that “…the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!”, but it seems to us that the mainstream media handed him the ammunition by presenting the worst case scenario (known as Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 or RCP8.5) of the various scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2011 as where we were actually headed unless we took extremely draconian action. This scenario has now been dropped. We at PIC are always struck by the disconnect between the media’s frantic coverage of climate change and its almost complete silence on population growth. https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-trumps-false-claims-about-the-ipcc-and-rcp8-5-climate-scenario/

05/29/2026

Check out PIC’s latest newsletter! We do not share our soon-to-be governor general’s enthusiasm for essentially free migration across borders. And we wonder, is the fact that Canada slipped from 7th place in 2017 on the University of Oxford’s World Happiness rankings to 25th place in 2025 a reflection of government policies? The US policy of birthright citizenship (which Canada also has) has given rise to a birth tourism industry and has resulted in possibly one million or more “US citizens” being raised in the People’s Republic of China. How many “Canadian citizens” are being raised in China and around the world? Also, why is the Canadian government cutting funding for homeless veterans? All this and more at: https://mailchi.mp/5d768fb241fc/mzq6upccm9-17471391

05/28/2026

News outlets are reporting that Tim Hortons will stop lobbying to lift the cap on temporary foreign workers and will aim to hire more Canadian youth, where unemployment is high, up to 10,000 people across Canada. Of course, there was no need for the massive increase in foreign workers in the first place and Tim Hortons is no doubt responding to public pushback. But Tim Hortons’ parent company, Restaurant Brands International, which first registered as a lobby group in 2019, reregistered on May 18, with CEO Joshua Kobza as the Responsible Officer. And the government’s website for temporary foreign workers is still advertising jobs in the food industry. So it might be best to take everything with a grain of salt for now. https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/tim-hortons-launches-campaign-that-aims-to-recruit-10000-new-local-team-members/

05/27/2026

PM Mark Carney says the world is facing an energy crisis and Canada must help solve it. He wants to “fill the global energy void and in turn grow the economy here at home” as though he doesn’t understand that the only path to long-term sustainability is to contract the global population and the global demand for resources, including energy. In addition, although Canada, because of its climate, is among the world’s highest per capita consumers of energy, the Liberal government’s immigration targets remain high, thereby not only increasing energy consumption but also putting enormous pressure on the farmland, greenspace and wildlife habitat in the southern strip of Canada where 90% of the population lives and where virtually all newcomers settle. Advocating for using “renewable energy” to promote “sustainable growth” reflects cognitive dissonance. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/carney-says-world-facing-energy-184337569.html

05/26/2026

Dr. Jane O’Sullivan of Sustainable Population Australia argues for reduced immigration before the Joint Standing Committee on Migration of the Australian Parliament on May 15. She wants to end “Australia’s huge experiment in mass immigration since 2005,” which has brought no benefits to the Australian people but created many problems (same as in Canada). “Low migration is pro-migrant” and it provides better chances of success for migrants and residents alike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VasjFNwg1xo

05/25/2026

This interesting graph is from an article by Peter Uetz in Free Inquiry (“Myths about Overpopulation,” Free Inquiry vol. 44(3): 36-41). It shows that there is a negative correlation between the total fertility rate (TFR) and the number of patents per TFR. “Cornucopian” economist Julian Simon said people were the ultimate resource so the more the better, but the reality is that when population exceeds the environmental, infrastructure, and social capacity, more people does not mean more innovation and wealth but more poverty and conflict and reduced access to education. https://uetz.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Uetz-2024-overpopulation-no-cover.pdf

05/22/2026

Riley Donovan of Dominion Review has a proposal to restore some sanity to Canada’s immigration system: the “tap on, tap off” system that we employed in decades past. And when the tap is on, it doesn’t have to be full blast. Also being an international student or asylum seeker shouldn’t be seen as a shortcut to permanent residency. https://frontiercentre.org/2026/05/17/its-time-to-turn-off-the-immigration-tap/

Address

Ottawa, ON

Website

http://www.populationinstitutecanada.ca/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Population Institute Canada posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Organization

Send a message to Population Institute Canada:

Featured

Humanics Institute
3468 Old Montreal Road (Cumberland)

Want your organization to be the top-listed Non Profit Organization in Ottawa?