Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Grodeski. This is episode number 18. And if it's the first time you're listening, welcome. And if you've been here every week, thank you for listening again. If you haven't listened before, you haven't done it, please like and subscribe on wherever you're listening. Spotify, Apple Podcast, Iheart Radio app. Would really appreciate that. And if you can give me a review on top of it, that's just a cherry on the cake.

So for those who have been listening, I have worked in politics my entire life. It's the only thing I really know how to do.

I was a journalist and a writer for a little bit of time. And then when I was my teenage year, my first job was working at Victoria's Secret selling bras. So if everything

goes belly up, that's all I have to fall back on. But I am super excited about campaigns and

elections. I followed them across the entire world. And we actually have our first major

elections in starting this podcast. It's not in this country, but it is in our neighbor to the north in

Canada. Yeah, sometimes I, too, forget we have a neighbor to the north. But we do. It's up there,

and it's their first election since 2021. And it's their first election without Prime Minister

Justin Trudeau on the ballot, leading the Liberal Party since 2011. Now, I know there's a lot of

drama in American politics,

especially since the age of Trump. American elections have been very exciting since 2015.

But the Canadian election is full of drama. I mean, Canadian drama. It's not like the

Sopranos are breaking bad, but it's, well, it's Canada, so it's like a serious episode of glee.

But anyway, it's interesting. And here's the backstory.

Justin Trudeau has been the Prime Minister of Canada for a decade, longer than any American

president except for Franklin Roosevelt. And under his tenure, he's fundamentally altered Canada

on a permanent basis through mass immigration. When he became prime minister, Canada had a population of 35.96 million people,

close to 36 million, right? Just say 36 million. And by the time he left, Canada's population increased

to 41.5 million. In proportion to America, it would be like us adding 60 million people during a decade when we added about 25 million.

Right. So it's substantially higher than immigration rates in the United States.

And we're talking about pedal to the metal, full-blown, mass immigration.

Remember, Canada has a very low birth rate. Canada's official fertility rate when Trudeau took over was 1.6 children per woman. It's now 1.3 children per woman. There's no natural growth in Canada's population. Every generation of Canadians is smaller than the one that came before it. The birth rate is so low that by the end of this decade,

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