cost of living in Canada.After giving birth to her first child in August of last year, 24-year-old Autumn Oliver-Giasson has decided to hold off on having more children until the high cost of living in Canada eases.“It’s just not plausible.
It doesn’t make sense,” she told Global News from McQuade, N.B. Read more: 63% of low-income Canadians worried about impacts of inflation on food, housing: report Read next: Part of the Sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists Canada’s fertility rate has been on a steady decline since 2008, according to a 2021 report from Statistics Canada.In 2020, as the trend only intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada experienced the lowest number of births since 2006 in 2020.Now, with decades-high inflation rates in Canada, some are putting the decision to have children on the backburner.Oliver-Giasson said she and her husband are “struggling” with prices as they take care of their son.And with childcare shortages, Oliver-Giasson is unsure whether she’ll actually be able to return to work full-time once her leave is up.“I don’t even know if I’m going to be able to go back to work at all before (my son is) two because nobody will take him (now).”To help make up some of the cost of inflation right now while on maternity leave, Oliver-Giasson has even started to babysit other children.“I know what it’s like to be stressed out and not have options, so I want to help out a few moms (while) I’m home.
It helps us with the cost of inflation,” she said.“We’re not having another kid until we either make a ridiculous amount more money, or inflation comes down or the childcare shortage changes drastically.”As statistics have shown, economic stresses and the toll caused by the.