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That’s about 30k people? So a 0.075% increase in your population with people from India (Not accounting for any departures back to India)

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The Netherlands is preventing is trying to prevent hyperscale data centers from being built because they require as much energy is a year as a small city. I can't imagine dismissing the import of a small city's worth of Indians quarterly as trivial.

That's 30%, not 30K

30% of 100k = 30k.

That 100K is just in 3 months. We are growing rapidly.

> We are growing rapidly

I remember reading recently that Canada's population actually decreased last year. A quick Google confirms it: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/251217/dq251...

ugh...I guess I have to bring out the crayons to explain this

The reduction came from international students and temporary workers' permits expiring. We keep increasing permanent residents.

Whatever the case may be "We are growing rapidly" is inaccurate.

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