In January 2023, the Trudeau government passed the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act – a two-year foreign buyer ban. In February 2024, the ban was extended for another two years, and is now in place until January 2027. The ban has proved popular, with a poll by Research Co. released […]
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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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In October, the Trudeau government buckled to rising anger over skyrocketing immigration levels and slashed permanent resident admissions while keeping in place previous restrictions on foreign worker and international student numbers. The federal government promised these measures would “pause population growth in the short term to achieve well-managed, sustainable growth in the long term”. Specifically,
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on May 24th, 2025. It is republished on Dominion Review with permission of the author. The Government of Canada’s strategic foresight organization, Policy Horizons Canada, recently issued a report that anticipates a Canada in dire straits in 15 years. The report, with the title
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Chris George’s Substack – the By George Journal. It is republished here, in slightly abridged form, with permission of the author. The country’s immigration trends have been a growing concern for Canadians, yet during this federal election campaign immigration policy has been fully eclipsed by anxieties relating
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For years, a number of politicians and media types have said that Canada’s traditional level of annual immigration has averaged at 1% of our total population. They argue that recent levels of immigration are not really very high, or that 1% is a reasonable policy for immigration. In the 1993 election, the Liberals, PCs, and
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The World Sikh Organization (WSO), Canada’s largest Sikh advocacy organization, has released an election guide which contains an exhaustive list of “key policy priorities” that extend across a variety of public policy spheres – everything from more accommodations for Sikh articles of faith on worksites to formal recognition of what the WSO describes as “the
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Canadians for a Sustainable Society website (sustainablesociety.com). It is republished here with permission of the author. This version has been slightly abridged – read the full version here. Canada now finds itself in a new world of disorder. To assure stability some have suggested embarking on “mega-projects” to boost growth.
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