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"Smartphones and a marked change to our digital media environment are part of the reason for the demographic shift changing our world..."

Solution according to article: Support housing and child subsidies.

Claude says:

A Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 1.0 means each woman has exactly 1 child. Since reproduction requires two people, this effectively halves the population every generation (~30 years).

With TFR = 1.0, the population multiplier per generation is 0.5 (each pair produces 1 child instead of 2).

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Generation	Years from now	Population
0	Today	8.1 billion
5	~150 yrs	~253 million
10	~300 yrs	~7.9 million
15	~450 yrs	~247,000
20	~600 yrs	~7,700
23	~690 yrs	~964
33	~990 yrs	< 1 (theoretical zero)

I feel many people judge Carney very harshly for making deals with Xi, but I don't see that when Trump does it. How bad this potential double standards are for Canada's economy?