A Leger poll commissioned by Canadians for a Sustainable Society, a Canadian environmentalist organization, contains striking insights into public attitudes on a variety of topics, including immigration levels: What Canadians Want (Leger, May 5th 2023, commissioned by Canadians for a Sustainable Society, sample size of 1,500, survey conducted online) I have compiled some of the […]
The B.C. NDP has introduced Bill-44, which if passed later this fall will abolish single-family zoning in all municipalities with more than 5,000 residents. Three to four housing units, in the form of secondary suites, laneway houses, townhomes, triplexes, and house-plexes, will now be permitted on residential single-family lots. This dramatic densification will be accomplished
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Canada now plays host to 807,750 foreign students, 770,000 temporary workers, and 500,000 new immigrants being admitted annually. As a group, they represent mass immigration. Most of these people settle and are concentrated in a few parts of Canada, nowhere more so than southern Ontario and southern BC. Their numbers are rising annually and the 500,000 new
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Crisis? What crisis? Following the cabinet shuffle in July, Canada’s freshly minted immigration minister, Marc Miller, has repeatedly reiterated that his government is not considering reducing immigration levels despite Canada’s housing crisis. The competition for housing is so intense that house prices have doubled since Miller’s boss, Justin Trudeau, came to power in 2015. The impacts of this
Canada’s Immigration Policy: Circular Reasoning, Bafflegab, and BS Read More »
It has been said that there are three things that matter in history: numbers, numbers, and numbers. This also applies to immigration policy. Canada’s immigration policy has historically been geared towards addressing specific needs, such as the settling of the prairies by Eastern European immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Immigration has
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