Now they are telling us?

McLean's magazine has found out that Canada has a baby deficit.

Ontario's Ministry of Education predicts that, by 2010, total elementary and secondary school enrolment will drop by nearly 100,000 students from 2002 numbers.

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Let me reiterate - that's Ontario. A province that hosts more than a half of all the new arrivals to Canada. That's nearly 150,000 people, among them - at least 20,000 children. Still, as it appears, Ontario needs over 12,000 more children coming to the province every year to keep elementary and secondary school enrolment from dropping. Immigration may be the way to address skilled labour shortage but, contrary to what the Liberal politicians suggested in 1990s, immigration alone cannot avert a demographic crisis.

The lengthy cover story does mention secularization, birth control and a "heightened desire for personal freedom" (e.g. selfishness believed to be virtue) as factors that contribute to the lack of children. But McLean's didn't mention over 100,000 abortions that take place in Canada every year; some 36,000 to 38,000 of them - in Ontario, the same province that has the school enrolment shrinking. (Well, which province doesn't?)

The article discusses social assistance and various other incentives for families to have more children. But there's nothing there about a lengthy campaign waged by the courts and the political left to demean, distort and finally - destroy the traditional family and marriage. Instead of defending the unitive and procreative nature of marriage, the lawmakers decided to water it down for the sake of equality. First they made it unnecessary for partners that already live together to get married. Then they redefined "marriages for civic purposes" so those two partners don't necessarily have to be a man and a woman. What's left of marriage nowadays may still have a use for tax and estate planning but it appears to be far too weak for a foundation the families are built upon.

The author prefers not to mention the cult of so called "safe sex" which dominates the public schools. What kind of birth rate can we expect when the "sex education" lectures promote nothing but contraception and perversion? When the government uses public funds to subsidize a paper trash (known as the "little black book") which recommends abnormal types of intercourse as "safe" because they won't result in pregnancy; when young girls are taught that they could "choose" to destroy an "unwanted" baby anytime during the pregnancy - we should be thankful for those few babies that are born.

McLean's cover story is over 30 paragraphs long. It analyzes different ways in which governments worldwide respond to demographic crisis, admitting that even the most successful measures still fall short of bringing the birth rate to the replacement level. There's only one measure left out: The Culture Of Life.