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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The 2% Solution: How Canada Can Meet Its NATO Spending Obligation Sensibly

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Nearly every newspaper or magazine article that has anything to do with Canadian defence policy inevitably mentions that Canada is far below the 2% spending target that all NATO member countries are supposed to meet. Not all members meet this target, and Canada is one of the bottom three or four countries. There was yet

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Canada’s Population Growth Ponzi Scheme Is Beginning To Unravel

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October 24th was a tragic day for real estate developers, speculators, cheap labour employers, business lobbyists, slumlords, corrupt immigration consultants, and strip mall diploma mill operators. On that day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reluctantly caved to public opinion and announced that the Liberal government will slash permanent resident levels by 21%. Less than one week

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Trudeau’s Immigration Cut Is Good, But 395,000 Permanent Residents A Year Is Still Mass Immigration

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On Wednesday, the same day that the Liberal caucus gathered to hear the contents of a letter signed by 20 Liberal MPs asking for Trudeau to step down, the National Post broke the story that the Trudeau government plans to slash immigration levels. The next three-year Immigration Levels Plan would have normally been released on

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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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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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Canada’s Immigration System: An Invitation To Scammers

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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on August 27th, 2024. It is republished on Dominion Review with permission of the author. Not long ago, I was contacted by an immigrant from a developing country that I’ll call “Pangea” who had seen one of my articles republished on a Canadian housing subreddit.

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Remembering Barry Broadfoot And The Ten Lost Years

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After working as a reporter for the Vancouver Sun for seventeen years, Barry Broadfoot left his desk to travel “at least 15,000 miles” with a tape recorder and collect oral accounts of living through Canada’s Great Depression. He interviewed hundreds of Canadians from all walks of life. Sometimes he conducted scheduled interviews, but often he

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$52.5 Billion: Understanding Canada’s Wasteful Electric Vehicle Subsidies

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Ottawa is committed to achieving 100% zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales by 2035 for all new light duty vehicles. A closer look at the timeline the Trudeau government envisions reveals how ambitious this plan really is:  By 2026: 20% new passenger vehicle sales will be ZEVs. By 2030: 60% new passenger vehicle sales will be ZEVs.

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