Recent content by Brad Sallows

There was only one - CPP - and it's moving to an asset-funded model. The time has already passed for governments to start governing without the assumption of population growth.

We already have the House for representation by population. If Senate is going to be anything, it should start by being selected by criteria other than population.

Don't know. But I don't see how we can afford to throw $100K+ per child at pretty much every couple in the country that wants to have children. Already looked at this one. Anything we claw back with less generous means testing is better spent on the people for whom OAS/GIS is their only...

The ghost of Gavrilo Princip raises an eyebrow.

Short answer is that it can't. People working now are owners and people willing to do the work for low wages. Anyone can do the arithmetic: take the going monthly rate per child, multiply by the maximum number of children licensed for the number of workers. That's the gross take. Estimate...

Again, the early '80s is too early. It doesn't fit the pattern of the younger families I knew (peers, and people between my age and my parents' age.) I was perfectly capable of buying a house and supporting a family in the mid-90s, and I was earning middle class wages. Part of the snowball in...

Policies can't simply throw bags of cash at people who are going to have kids anyways. What would truly be an incentive aimed at increasing birth rate above replacement would be benefits starting with third child. If there isn't already enough reasonably priced child care, ask yourself why...

Progressives want surrender on their terms. That means no mention by anyone, ever, in Parliament.

The jokes just write themselves.

Speaking of which, I understand the NDP is pressing the LPC for a National Cabbage Strategy.

It was still very alive into the '80s. Only a very small handful of the women (mothers, wives) in the suburb I grew up in had jobs, and few of those were on career tracks. Part of what upset the balance was people having fewer or no kids, which increased disposable income. $500,000 ?

Men don't have final say in the final outcome of a pregnancy, but men are generally held responsible financially for supporting children they fathered. They have a stake. Men are also still generally expected to financially support themselves (minimum respect), support a family (more respect)...

A stipulation isn't a fallacy; it's a point agreed to in advance, usually as a premise conceded to anyone who might otherwise take up an objection. I had decided to take a pass on being too blunt about your assumption of things that just aren't so. My mom did family daycare for 20 years, and...

There are always exceptions. Acknowledging them up front and stressing that they are exceptions frames the discussion so there's no nonsense about "Aha! You said 'all' - or 'none' - and I found an exception", or where on the spectrum of "most/many/some/few" things fit. If you're reduced to...

One thing could be a straightforward public education campaign. After mid-30s, women's fertility (already dropping) starts to drop off rapidly. After mid-30s, quality of men's "contribution" deteriorates (genetically). People will go to a lot of effort to give their children advantages, when...