This might be enough to give us a challenge. StatsCan’s latest population update showed Saskatchewan with a record 1.23 million residents at the beginning of this quarter.
That number got a fair bit of attention. But the agency is also forecasting population growth for the next 50 years in the country and 25 years in the province.
And, on that one, they see no scenario where Saskatchewan’s population will hit 2 million in the next two-and-a-half decades. I couldn’t find any stats on it but I doubt this federal agency believed the Riders could start out 3-and-0 this season either.
The forecast includes slow and fast population growth and allows for an aging population – whether it is fast or slow – to determine that in the best conditions, we could expect to hit a population of 1.9 million in their high-growth version.
They did note, though, that western Canada is gaining demographically as we add people more rapidly than other regions while Atlantic Canada and Quebec would decrease as a share of the national population.
