At a news conference on April 2nd, Justin Trudeau reluctantly departed his warm and cozy internal world of ideological certainty, and briefly entered the gritty and unpleasant land of consensus reality. Our Prime Minister finally stopped denying the drop-dead obvious, and admitted that the number of foreign workers and international students on our soil “has […]
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In an interview with the New York Times shortly after being elected in 2015, Justin Trudeau described Canada as a “post-national state” with “no core identity, no mainstream”. Most people considered this a largely meaningless, if somewhat oddly phrased comment from a man still trying to find his footing in Canada’s highest office. Last week,
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NIMBY: Selfish parochialism or rational self-interest? The term “NIMBY” (Not In My Back Yard) refers to the opposition by local residents to any new infrastructure project, such as a housing development, group home, or incinerator proposed for their neighbourhood. As Robert Lake writes in a 1993 article, Rethinking NIMBY, NIMBY is generally seen as “selfish parochialism”
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In some circles, Canada is portrayed as underpopulated because it covers a huge area and has low population density. Growth promoters suggest that a large proportion of Canada could be converted to farmland to feed both a much larger population and much of the world. That may have seemed to be the case early in
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Canadians for a Sustainable Society website (sustainablesociety.com). It is republished here with permission of the author. Canadian banks – Bank of Montreal, ScotiaBank and TD Bank – are funding the mass-immigration advocacy group Century Initiative, whose goal is to increase Canada’s population by 60 million people by
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“We wanted workers…but we got people instead.” – Swiss novelist Max Frisch, referring to the foreign ‘guest workers’ allowed into Europe after the Second World War. 1) Housing Crisis This one is simple enough: prices are determined by the relationship between supply and demand. As Canada’s population has grown through large-scale immigration, which reached a
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Editor’s note: The man in the cover image of this article is Daniel Stoffman (1945-2023), the author of Who Gets In – the book which Brian Graff analyzes in this piece. You can purchase this book here. Like many homes, mine has several bookcases. I last moved about 15 years ago and frankly, I would
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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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