SMU Assistant Professor of Law and NMP Eugene Tan said: “The White Paper is disappointing in that, to all intents and purposes, it presents us with only one option. That in order for us to have the requisite economic growth levels by 2020 and 2030, we need to have a certain requisite population… The White Paper has, unwittingly, heightened the vulnerability and fear factor since it presents depending on your vantage point, the best or worst options… It reminds me of Then-British Premier Margaret Thatcher’s T-I-N-A slogan: That ‘There is no alternative’. How do we create a sustainable and dynamic population and Singapore if we take that as our starting point?”