by Mathieu Roy 
Dec 08 2009
2:33 AM

Ms Francis, you're a dangerous facist, but to your credit you're not hiding your intentions or lying to yourself like the UN representatives or the global warming zealots. This is the only credit you'll get from me though.

Population control policies are not only immoral, but they also yield catastrophic unintended consequences on various social and economic aspects. Just think about female infanticides and/or rate of children sent to adoption due to the 1 child restriction policy, and their impact on male to female demographic ratio. You should also realize that your precious government retirement pensions, social programs and welfare depend on population and economic growth. Imagine the impact of the inversion of the demographic pyramid on retirement pension programs. Soon there will not be enough active taxpayers to maintain these programs in certain places (i.e. Quebec) due to the aging population, imagine how much worse it would get with population control policies.

The last thing we need is bureaucrats delivering birth permits. What would you do to people who do not follow the 1 baby rule? Throw them in jail? How would you find them? Put in place a national baby squad? Hand out rewards for citizens who would spie and report on their neighbors?

So called "specialists" have been predicting the earth's population capacity for centuries now and were always proved wrong by new technological findings and by the will of humankind to prosper. The earth is NOT overpopulated. If it's natural ressources could not sustain the current population the growth rates would naturally follow and plateau, yet populations are still growing.

Finally I would like to end this on a personal note. I'm seeing from your picture Ms Francis that you are likely past the age of having children. It is pretty selfish of people of your generation to advocate placing arbitrary boundaries on the size of my future family knowing that you enjoyed the freedom of deciding what was best for yours. The irony is hat you will probably not live the see the supposed negative effects of the earth's overpopulation, yet you claim to know what is best for us. Won't you please just trust me and my unborn children to take the right decisions if and when problems arise. Thanks but no thanks, I don't need your concern and certainly don't need your facist solutions.

Mathieu