Canada’s Asylum and Immigration Policies: A Threat to National Security?
Mystery migrants In the spring of 2024, a friend called to tell me about a meeting he had with his City of Ottawa councillor. She had told him that, at the time, three community centres [...]
A population-related wish list for 2025
The new year could prove to be more exciting than many of us might wish. The spirit of “Peace on Earth and good will toward men” is in short supply in extensive regions of the [...]
The Lie that Won’t Die: Immigration Is the Solution for Canada’s Aging Population
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 impact on the Canadian age structure. Even back [...]
Canada’s Immigration System: An Invitation to Scammers
Immigrants share stories from their community 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 [...]
The Century Initiative: a Blueprint for a Bigger, Broken Canada
Why is growth in your city exploding? Most Canadians have probably never heard of the Century Initiative. It operates behind the scenes and has received a measure of public scrutiny only in the past few [...]
Will the State, Once Again, take an Interest in the Bedrooms of the Nation?
“There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” Pierre Elliott Trudeau famously said in 1967 while discussing his omnibus bill with reporters, which included changes to the criminal code regarding homosexuality. But, in [...]