How hard

[james_davis_nicoll]

Would it be for Canada to assimilate, oh, 100,000,000 people over a few year? Saskatchewan went from 91,279 people in 1901 to 492,432 in 1911 and going from 40,000,000 to 140,000,000 is a proportionately smaller jump.

Could be tricky explaining to newcomers why there are Leafs fans.

Comments

[armiphlage]

I'd say it is a bit easier today - even if standards are far more sophisticated, we have existing companies, equipment, and trained personnel to expand existing infrastructure. In worst-case scenarios of mass migration, we'd have millions sleeping on cots in chilly-but-livable hockey rinks waiting for the ground to thaw to dig foundations, eating boring but plentiful food, rather than freezing on a mat of pine boughs in drafty tents deciding whether or not to eat their seed corn.

[dewline]

We'd still have to source some things from somewhere other than the States, of course. And I worry about Modi and Xi as well nowadays...