Only 3%. 

And yet look at how this issue, already, consumes us.

Dougie Saunders has made a career out of writing these finger wagging, tut-tut articles.

But when you dig into the real numbers, one stark fact stands out.

The only way that Muslims will not become a majority in Canada within this century, is if they start having smaller families. Much smaller.

You don't believe me?  Look around you. Ask your Muslim co-workers how many children they have.

I had a taxi ride from downtown Calgary this past holiday season. The taxi driver, bearing a Muslim name, said he had 7 children. Another on the way. OK, anecdotal.

Perhaps you do not mind the prospect of Canada being a Muslim majority nation within 80 or 90 years. Perhaps, like my European forebears, generation 2 will have fewer kids. But then of course, those immigrant forebears of mine were farmers and ranchers, not urbanites.

Perhaps this, perhaps that.

Just recline back in your LaZBoy and let the hockey game wash over you.