Canada’s population topped 41 million. But is this the rise before the fall?

But Bank of Nova Scotia economists Rebekah Young and Anthony Bambokian aren’t so sure.

Canada’s overall population growth is “still going hot,” Bambokian said.

Young said the growth rate is trending stronger than last year and last year was a record-breaking one.

“We think it’s going to be really tough for them to reign in the numbers so dramatically in such a short time frame,” she said. “We are not seeing it in terms of data flows just yet.”