Maximum Canada – Towards a country of 100 million

Author: Dough Saunders

Canada’s population has always grown slowly, when it has grown at all.  For centuries before Confederation and a century after, Canada was isolated by colonial economic policies and an inward-facing world view, attracting few of the people and building few of the institutions needed to sustain a sovereign nation. The result is an underpopulated country – one unprepared for the most challenging world in the century ahead.

in Maximum Canada, a bold and detailed vision for Canada’s future, award-winning author and Globe and Mail columnist Doug Saunders proposes an audacious way forward: to avoid global obscurity and create lasting prosperity, to build equality and reconciliation of Indigenous and regional divides, and to ensure economic and ecological sustainability, Canada needs to triple its population.