Canada’s Immigration Policy: Circular Reasoning, Bafflegab, and BS

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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 […]

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Canadian Public Opinion Shifts Towards Immigration Restriction

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A Nanos poll for the Globe and Mail found that 53% of Canadians want the federal government to accept fewer immigrants than the projected 2023 target of 465,000 permanent residents. This is a rise of almost 20 percentage points since March, when only 34% of respondents wanted lower immigration. Just over a third of respondents

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Sky-High Immigration Collides with Reality

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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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Canada’s Ideology of Endless Growth

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I recently published the lengthiest report in English Canada on the Century Initiative (available on my website, dominionreview.ca). This lobby group, which has been influential in the Trudeau government, seeks to increase Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100 through mass immigration. The Century Initiative’s goal could only find fertile ground in a country whose

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Century Initiative: The Lobbyists that Want to Raise Canada’s Population to 100 Million

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The Century Initiative is a lobby pushing for massive population growth in Canada. This goal is clearly stated on their website: “We advocate for policies to increase Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100”. Who is behind this group, and what might be their motivations? The Broad Influence of the Century Initiative The Century Initiative

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Canada’s Immigration Delirium

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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) wrote that social stigma can be stronger than legislative prohibition in suppressing controversial speech. He argued that silencing opinion prevents debate, obstructing society’s search for truth by turning officially sanctioned views into little more than indefensible prejudices. The social stigma around mass immigration is clearly shown by the unwillingness of Canadians

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Islamic Assimilation Remains a Major Challenge in Québec

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Québec continues to face cultural clashes stemming from the religious and cultural assertiveness of many members of its growing Muslim minority, and the expectations of the Québecois majority that they adopt the values of the wider society. The latest flashpoint came when it was discovered that at least two Montréal schools had permitted Muslim students

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