The Lie That Won’t Die: Immigration Is The Solution For Canada’s Aging Population

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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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Canada’s Political Elite Is (Very Slowly) Buckling To The Public’s Demand For Immigration Restriction

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Editor’s note: This article was published earlier in the day, before the National Post released its story revealing that the Trudeau government intends to slash permanent resident levels from this year’s 485,000 to 395,000 in 2025, 380,000 in 2026, and 365,000 in 2027. Canada’s unprecedentedly high population growth rate – 1.3 million in 2023, 97.6%

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Why Isn’t Densification Making Housing Cheaper?

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Housing affordability has been the major issue impacting average Canadians ever since the Covid pandemic has declined in importance. For around two decades, if not longer, the housing policies of Ontario and BC have been oriented towards promoting the densification of cities and major urban areas. This became even more important with the introduction of

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You May Be A Landlord Or Real Estate Speculator, And Not Even Know It!

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Newspapers in Canada have been covering the “housing crisis”, with many stories about the high cost of buying or renting a home since the pandemic. Landlords are a frequent target of these stories, particularly over issues like renovictions, high rents, and renting houses to foreign students by placing beds nearly any place one can fit

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The Century Initiative: A Blueprint For A Bigger, Broken Canada

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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on July 4th, 2024. It is republished on Dominion Review with permission of the author.  Why is growth in your city exploding? Most Canadians have probably never heard of the Century Initiative. It operates behind the scenes and has received a measure of public scrutiny

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Recent Polls Show That Canadians Are Getting Exactly What They Don’t Want

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Canadians are frequently told that continuous growth is just what their country needs. But when surveyed, they have never expressed a craving for it. They want safe communities, access to nature, equality and the rule of law. They place greater value on quality of life than on a larger economy. However, contrary to what Canadians

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Problems With Trudeau’s Immigration Policy Increasingly Undeniable

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When even bank economists are calling for immigration restriction, you know something is seriously wrong with Canada’s immigration policy. Published on January 15th, a new special report by National Bank of Canada economists Stéfane Marion and Alexandra Ducharme argues that the country now finds itself in a “population trap”. A population trap occurs when a

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