Zero Population Growth From Immigration Is A Welcome Breather For Canada

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Editor’s note: This piece was originally published in the Epoch Times on March 5th. A new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer projects that Canada’s population growth will be flat this year due to immigration cutbacks and major outflows of temporary residents. For the average Canadian, this is good news. The report analyzes the “demographic implications” of […]

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10 Benefits Of Canada’s New 0% Population Growth Rate

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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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Population Institute Canada’s Wish List For 2025

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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on January 10th, 2025. It is republished on Dominion Review in slightly abridged form with permission of the author. First, Population Institute Canada President Madeline Weld discusses the global reliance on the model of endless economic growth, then she moves on to Canada’s current

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B.C. NDP’s Mass Densification Plan Hitting Roadblocks

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After narrowly returning to power in October, Premier David Eby’s NDP government is proceeding full steam ahead with increasingly controversial province-wide densification plans. The B.C. NDP’s Bill 44 is now in effect. This piece of legislation mandates that all municipalities with over 5,000 residents allow four to six housing units on what were formerly single-family

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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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