At a 1.5% fertility rate [0], what's the alternative? It's fair to gripe about the effects of immigration, and policies to handle those, but it's disingenuous

At a 1.5% fertility rate [0], what's the alternative? It's fair to gripe about the effects of immigration, and policies to handle those, but it's disingenuous to gripe about immigration as a policy in a <2+ country. Demographics is a zero sum game. Either you have a growing population and smooth age brackets or Very Bad Things happen. [0] https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/CAN/canada/fertility-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/CAN/can...