In an exclusive interview with Juno News released today, Poilievre explained that he supports a permanent resident cap of 200,000-250,000: “It would be a lot more like the Harper numbers that were basically the same for 40 years before Trudeau took office — we were bringing in about 200,000 to 250,000 a year”. This statement […]
Poilievre’s Immigration Cap Of 250,000 Per Year Is Still Way Too High Read More »
At a February 11th campaign event focused on her party’s plan to make life more affordable for youth, Ontario Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie pledged to cap international student enrolment at a maximum of 10% per college or university. British Columbia should emulate this approach. In explaining her reasoning for this policy, Crombie cut to the
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Population estimates released by Statistics Canada on January 16th reveal that British Columbia’s population is growing at an astronomical rate. An analysis by CBC broke down the raw figures provided by Stats Can, and generated rates of growth from 2021-2024 for municipalities with over 90,000 residents: As I have written before, B.C.’s population growth is
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Yesterday, Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) released an impact assessment of the 2025-2027 Immigration Level Plan, which slashes permanent residency admissions by 21% and imposes caps on international students and foreign workers. A dire Global News headline summarized the findings: “Ottawa’s immigration cuts will chop 1.7% off GDP in 3 years: PBO”. That’s not the
Parliamentary Budget Officer: Cutting Immigration Raises GDP Per Capita Read More »
At a news conference in July, Premier David Eby admitted that B.C.’s “unprecedented population inflows from immigration” are “completely overwhelming”. He painted a dire picture of a province whose systems are buckling: “Our schools are full; we are unable to keep up with housing starts”. Despite the Trudeau government’s effort to curtail immigration, the issue
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Amid Canada’s non-stop immigration debate, CBC News has commissioned a poll surveying newcomers on their experience in Canada and their attitudes towards this country’s immigration policy. The survey was conducted by Pollara Strategic Insights in November, and included 1,507 citizens, permanent residents, and non-permanent residents – all of whom came to Canada in the last
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Canadians for a Sustainable Society website (sustainablesociety.com), which I encourage readers to check out. It is republished here, in a slightly abridged format, with permission of the author. The cloak of invisibility is starting to fall off the elephant in the room. Some may think that Canadian government
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In a recent article in the Financial Post, I reported that support for Canadian immigration restriction had reached 72% – a statistical supermajority that includes all major political parties and every age group. In another recent column, I wondered whether this astonishingly high percentage was the ceiling of support, or whether opposition to high immigration
New Poll: 78% Of Canadians Support The Recent Immigration Cut Read More »
On November 8th it was reported by CBS that the newly elected Council of the City of Dawson in the Yukon would be abstaining from the legally mandatory Oath of Allegiance following this year’s municipal election. According to the Yukon Municipal Act, the Oath of Allegiance must be sworn within 40 days of the end
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on October 31st, 2024. It is republished on Dominion Review with permission of the author. In 2001, I attended some sessions at a demographic conference in Ottawa. I was astonished when a speaker from Statistics Canada said that immigration had essentially no
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