Have you ever wondered what Canada would be like if we did not have the immigration crisis that we are currently facing? Assuming you cannot remember those ancient days, there still exists a plot of this country that demonstrates the way and quality of life that would exist if there were no mass immigration. The […]
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This article was originally published on the Population Institute Canada website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on December 15th, 2025. It is republished here, in slightly edited and abridged form, with permission of the author. It is the supreme duty of all citizens and the Canadian leadership to seek to protect Canada from preventable evils of tribalization emanating from misguided laws
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The current debate over immigration focuses on international students and temporary workers – but who we choose to let in for the long term matters as well. Economists such as Mikal Skuterud argue that raising GDP per capita should be the priority of Canada’s immigration policy, and we should only let in highly skilled immigrants
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Perhaps the most intractable policy disaster handed to Prime Minister Carney by the Trudeau government is the immigration file. The ugliest detail in that file is undoubtedly the astronomic increase in temporary residents (largely foreign workers, international students, and asylum seekers) – a population that expanded from 3.3% in 2018 to 7.5% in 2024. The
This article was originally published on the Population Institute Canada website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on October 30th, 2025. It is republished here with permission of the author. When I look at the accelerating mess that is Canada, I am reminded of the answer by a character in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, who was asked how
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After nearly a decade of continually increasing immigration levels, including two consecutive years of allowing them to reach stratospheric heights (annual population growth topped one million in 2022, and almost hit 1.3 million in 2023) the Trudeau government finally caved to public opposition in October 2024 by reducing the 2025 permanent resident target from 500,000
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On July 18th, the National Post published an uncritical review of a book titled Toward Prosperity: The Transformation of Atlantic Canada’s Economy in which former pollster Don Mills and economist David Campbell “detail the dramatic improvements newcomers are bringing to the East Coast” and claim that Atlantic Canada is “in the early stage of an
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In January, I was interviewed by independent filmmaker Sangita Iyer of Mettle Films for a two-part documentary on mass immigration. Part One has now been released. Some of my thoughts were included – along with those of other commentators you may know such as Kirk Lubimov, Darshan Maharaja, Tasha Kheirridin, Natasha Graham, Simon Nantais, and
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A recent Leger poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute reveals that, despite the Trudeau government’s immigration cut, 62% of Canadians still think immigration levels are too high. This majority includes 60% of native-born Canadians and 57% of foreign-born Canadians, indicating broad support for immigration restriction across different backgrounds. While
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Canada has slashed permanent resident admissions by 21%, slammed down caps on the international student and foreign worker streams, and bolstered various restrictions across the board. While our immigration rate is still disproportionately high compared to other developed countries, and severely out of sync with our own historic rate, these cuts are having an effect
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