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I recently wrote a Facebook post on Canada's demographic issue, mentioning the decline in the Canadian population following recent immigration restrictions and emphasizing the need to restore the importance of the family in order for society to be viable. I was surprised to see more than 1,000 likes, just under 1,000 comments, and some 150 shares.

You can read wonderful comments, such as this one:

I grew up in a family of 10 children with modest incomes, and it was possible to find housing as long as we were willing to share rooms with three people and roll up our sleeves to build and maintain our house and vegetable garden with our own hands.

A small income from renting out the upstairs also helped us make ends meet each month.

The savings generated by everyone's work enabled us to attend university, financed by student loans.

We had no car, no dishwasher — in short, no luxuries. Living modestly allowed us to achieve our goals of improving our living conditions with a minimum of sacrifice.

It's possible, but you have to prioritize the right things...

Admittedly, a significant proportion of the reactions expressed disagreement with the proposal in this publication, with less than a quarter of the “likes” consisting of “laughs,” as if there were something funny about the situation – but that's normal, even the most beautiful monuments, which certainly do not include the humble publication mentioned above, are not spared by these birds that leave a trace of their passage...

All this to say: the demographic issue arouses a lot of passion. Why? Because it is one of the main factors that determine the future of a people, and because, as long as people still feel attached to their nation, they cannot remain indifferent to it. Others, apatride in the heart, will see no problem with society literally degenerating and will laugh at this dismal spectacle (all that's missing is for them to play the lyre...).

Fortunately, in Quebec, a large number of people are still attached to their identity and will view with concern the replacement of society by mass immigration or its gradual decline. In both cases, Quebecers are not having enough children. And it must be said that if Quebecers had maintained the fertility rate we had on the eve of the “Quiet Revolution” (which was more like collective suicide than anything else), we would now have 20 million inhabitants.

We are entering an election year in Quebec, and it appears that the leader of the Parti Québécois, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, wants to bring Quebec to a third referendum on Quebec independence. At the very least, this is an issue that will clearly take center stage throughout the year, both because of its supporters and its opponents.

But whether you are for or against such a project, the real issue, which risks being overshadowed by the referendum question, is that of demographics: if we don't have children, what is the point of staying in Canada or leaving it? The heritage we carry with us risks dying with us, because it can only be well passed on through the family, and if we no longer have families, we will have no one to pass it on to.

I am aware of the many obstacles that stand in the way of achieving this goal: the cost of rent and housing, inflation, education (or the challenge of raising children outside the monopoly of government education). Everything must be done to remove these obstacles.

The issue of family must be given greater prominence now more than ever, by “family,” I mean the real family, the one that allowed us to build Quebec, it must be encouraged, and we must also restore the spirit of sacrifice so well expressed in the comment quoted above. However, today's society is imbued with a spirit of selfishness and consumerism that is summed up in the sinister slogan “my body, my choice.” The two spirits are absolute antagonists, and the fate of Quebec depends on the outcome of this battle.

For my part, I was raised in a large family and we weren't exactly rich. Yes, we also slept two or even three to a room — but that's nothing, because family is the greatest reward for sacrifice.

For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

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