New Poll: Opposition To Mass Immigration Reaches Yet Another Record In Canada

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“Indeed almost no Canadian surveyed feels that there are too few immigrants.” (page 2 of the Association For Canadian Studies poll analysis) Another day, another immigration poll. A new survey, conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies, shows that hostility towards the Trudeau government’s policy of mass immigration has reached new heights. You […]

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Doublethink: A Canada Heritage Minute

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“War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.” Those are the words written on the Ministry of Truth building against the skyline of Airstrip One in Orwell’s novel 1984. In Ottawa, it seems that a new addition has been made to the fictional motto of the totalitarian Party: “Canada is Multicultural.” People often assert

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New Book Charts Roadmap For Smashing Corporate Monopoly Power In Canada

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The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets And Harm Canadians. Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar. Sutherland House, 2024. “If we would not submit to an emperor, we should not submit to an autocrat of trade” – U.S. Senator John Sherman, responsible for the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 Loblaws, Sobeys, Metro, Walmart, and Costco comprise 80%

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Quebec Introduces A Per-Country Cap On Permanent Resident Invitations To Ensure “Diversity” Of Immigrants

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The Quebec government’s recent tabling of a bill to give itself the power to limit the number of international students in the province has received considerable media coverage. However, another significant development in Quebec’s immigration policy has gone largely unreported. On Wednesday, Quebec’s Minister of Immigration, Francization, and Integration Jean François Roberge issued a ministerial

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Ontario Used To Be Well Governed, But Has Lost Its Mojo

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The Ontario I grew up in was governed by what was called the “Big Blue Machine”, the nickname for the Progressive Conservative Party that governed the province for 42 years from 1943-1985. Premiers Drew, Frost, Robarts, and Davis provided forward-thinking and competent government that made few major mistakes. The PCs stayed in power largely because

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Trudeau Government’s New LMIA-Exempt High-Skill Work Permit Undercuts Canadian Workers

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The Trudeau government has introduced a new work permit for foreign workers with a job offer at one of eight firms in the Global Hypergrowth Project – a government project aimed at supporting the growth of a selection of homegrown Canadian companies. Eligible firms include Ada Support Inc., a customer service automation company based out

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These Graphs Prove That Canada’s Housing Crisis Is Driven By Immigration

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Housing, housing, housing. It’s constantly in the news, and with good reason – finding a place to live has become an all-consuming worry for many Canadians. Pundits and mainstream media columnists have created a veritable cottage industry out of concocting increasingly niche solutions for the housing crisis. Everything from deploying legions of prefabricated houses to

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Polls Show Canadians Are Weirded Out By Woke Ideology

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While in undergrad, I selected a class called “Social And Political Thought”. I imagined that we might read Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Machiavelli. Instead, students were administered a dizzying dose of critical race theory and social justice – for our benefit, no doubt. One day I raised my hand and inquired why

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The Banks, Corporations, And Foundations That Donated To The Century Initiative Lobby In 2023

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In August of last year, I published an article titled “Who Funds The Century Initiative?” that listed various organizations which had donated to the Century Initiative in 2022. It garnered considerable attention, so this year I am publishing another summary based on the 2023 Annual Report available on the Century Initiative’s website. In fact, I

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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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