yes, yes fecundity is the ability to produce abundant viable offspring.  Canada's women of child bearing age are healthy and very fertile.  My generation (late-middle boomer) did not delay reproduction as much as is done now and we did not abort tens of thousands of pregnancies each year.  We need babies to be born, we need more than 1.6 births per woman.   If we don't get that stat up then immigration must increase, particularly of young people