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Workforce Dept: Therefore, we need more young people in the workforce. We need them for our collective prosperity and, especially, to pay for our pensions, old age security and health care, according to The Star. Therefore, we need to get more immigrants, which we are and there are more of us 33.47 million, according to the census . But far too many of us are aged 65 and up 5 million. The proportion of seniors will, in fact, grow more rapidly in the coming years as the first wave of baby boomers reaches 65. Therefore, we need to make more babies. But we are not, to the extent we need to. Canada s birth rate of 1.67 children per woman is well below the minimum of 2.0 required. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.