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Yeah there has been a pretty definitive drop in overall productivity in Canada since the sudden increase in population.

I believe the economic term is population trap, where your society / economy can't expand fast enough to make efficient use of the addition in capital.

It is pretty clear based on the constantly decreasing GDP per capita.




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