Can Canada keep up? Read the numbers.
Immigration debates run on feelings. Ours runs on public data. Each post takes one system Canadians rely on, shows how it is measured and what the latest figures say.
Explainer
What a capacity index would measure, and why Ottawa should publish one
Four public numbers, one simple question: is Canada growing faster than it can build? How we’d combine them, and where they stand today.
Housing
Homes per new Canadian: the ratio that explains the housing crisis
CMHC housing starts against Statistics Canada population estimates. When growth hit 1.27 million in a year, we added more than five people for every home we started.
Healthcare
The family doctor gap, measured three ways
OurCare, Statistics Canada and CIHI each count access to primary care differently. All three say millions of Canadians are going without.
Education
Portables and packed classes: what we know about school capacity
Canada publishes no national class-size data. Ontario does, and it shows 30% of its schools over capacity and almost 5,000 portables in use.
Transportation
Stuck in traffic: how congestion tracks growth in Canada’s big cities
TomTom’s Traffic Index measures how long it takes to drive 10 km. Vancouver and Toronto now rank among the slowest cities in North America.