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Canada is changing.

The country feels different than it once did. Housing has become harder to afford. Healthcare systems are under pressure. Cities are growing faster than their infrastructure can support. Younger Canadians increasingly feel locked out of the stability previous generations once considered normal.

At the same time, Canada is aging rapidly.

Birth rates have fallen below replacement levels. Retirements are accelerating. Immigration has become essential to sustaining economic growth and maintaining the workforce. Yet the national conversation surrounding these changes has become polarized, emotional, and increasingly disconnected from the underlying realities driving them.

After the Boom examines the demographic transformation now reshaping Canada, and the profound economic, political, and cultural consequences that follow.

Christopher M. Michaud explores how postwar prosperity created expectations that may no longer align with demographic reality, how population growth and declining birth rates are colliding with housing and infrastructure limits, and why many Canadians sense that the country is entering a fundamentally different era.

Neither alarmist nor ideological, After the Boom approaches these issues through a grounded, human lens. It argues that Canada’s challenges are not the result of a single policy failure or political tribe, but the cumulative effect of long-term structural shifts that few leaders have been willing to address honestly.

This is a book about population, economics, identity, generational change, and the difficult adjustments modern societies must make when the conditions that created prosperity begin to evolve.

Canada did not fail.
It drifted.

After the Boom explores where that drift came from, and what comes next.