Dan Gardner's been doing some outstanding, if lonely, work on the demographic decline file and is well worth the read on this (here, here, here, and here).

What he has yet to acknowledge--short of a kind of shrug--is the ideological monolith that stands between the Canadian public and any serious discussion of the matter. Namely: the insanely obtuse (but inevitable and instantaneous) reduction of the matter to sexism.

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UPDATE (April 1st, 2010)

Dan graciously nods in the direction of this post (and wonders at the company I've got him with in my blogroll).