Population is increasing in Canada year by year. Compared to 20 years ago, the amount of people in Canada has grown rapidly in recent years. From 30.7 million people in 2000 to 33.5 million in 2011. The death rate that had been decreasing, played a part in the raise of the population. But now, studies show that our death rate seems like it's going to increase in the near future due to the death of the early baby boomers and because of the elder people in our population. And with this, the birth rate has been decreasing as well. Over the years, many have found contraceptives and other technology to stop the unplanned growth of population. Life expectancy is currently 81.57 years, but if birth rates do decrease, life expectancy will be at about 90. Almost always, the birth rate is higher than the death rate to keep the population going. So, the population will start to decrease if the birth rate really does lower drastically. Currently, the natural birth rate in Canada is around 2.41%. But this isn't it, a lot of Canada's population currently has originated from different countries, meaning, there are many immigrants yearly who move to Canada, but unlike other countries, Canada hasn't only opened information to a few but, opened immigration to many, including, refugees, family class immigrants and economic immigrants. Canada has practically opened its immigration for anyone who doesn't bring in any deadly airborne illnesses, or isn't a criminal. Every year Canada takes in about 250,000 immigrants, which is the primary source of population growth in Canada. Many other countries around the world do not welcome as many immigrants as Canada does, and because we offer much more (pull factors) such as free health care, job opportunities, education and etc. Most immigrants leave all that is behind them to live in a better environment for themselves and future generations, to come to Canada for a safer, cleaner place to live. Our population does increase because of this every year, but Canada is rarely overpopulated. There's a variety of places, that are very populated but balancing out the population, there are other areas where there aren't any people. For example, in Ontario, cities such as Toronto are very overpopulated, but other cities around such as Hamilton, Kitchener, etc, don't have many people. The Aboriginals is another topic. 4.3% of the Canadian population has an Aboriginal identity in Canada. They've been growing drastically over the past 25 years. The Aboriginals have agreed that each Aboriginal couple must have at least 3 kids if able per family to continue and grow their community. In the past, we had been disrespectful towards the FNMI's, to make it up we have given them less taxes to pay and more. There are reserves and other special schools especially made for Aboriginals, which is just a small part of the Indian Act that benefits them.