In the 1980’s, the world was infatuated with Japan. Its economy was on fire and was projected to overtake the USA as the world’s number one economy by the year 2000. That came to a grinding halt in the 1990’s as the Japanese stock market collapsed and economic...
It started in Japan: the concept of de-coupling from China. The Japanese government offered its corporations billions of dollars to move manufacturing out of China, to safer more friendly locations. It then caught fire in the USA, initially under the Trump...
Despite having the fastest growing population in the developed world, thanks to a massive acceleration of immigration, Canada is facing a forecasted economic growth of only 1% in 2023 (according to the OECD). This is surprising given the rise in demand for things that...
Language is considered to be a cornerstone of culture. If one wants to understand a culture, it is important to know the language. Many people enjoy learning a new language, partly because it opens them to new cultures. There is an explosion of people learning new...
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Canada has been a country of immigrants, with a great number and variety entering the country over the last 400 years. In recent years, however, we have seen the government of accelerate the number of immigrants by nearly 75 percent, to over 400,000 per year. One of...
Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
Other than Covid 19, inflation, the collapse of Hong Kong as a free society, and a continuing bull stock market, the last two years has also been a time of space “development. We have also seen two companies offer space tourism, the development of the largest rocket...
For the last 22 years, I have been a senior immigration official and immigration consultant. In that time, I have seen successive governments steadily and sharply increase the numbers of immigrants being brought into Canada from about 120,000 in the 1990s, to over...
In looking forward towards a post-pandemic recovery for Canada, an important player is the bond market. Over the last 20 years, Canadian provinces have borrowed heavily. Total provincial bonds now exceed federal government bonds - $650 billion outstanding for the...
In the time of the 1918/19 Spanish flu, the world was a very different place. Of course, there was no internet, TVs, or social media. In fact, there wasn’t even any radio until a few years later. All the news was provided by the newspaper - and almost all...
The world’s economy continues to grow every year by between 2 and 4%. From when civilization began, 5,000 years ago, the production of energy remains an important factor to continued growth. In these environmentally conscious times, efforts are intensifying to...
For the first time in decades, Manitoba’s unemployment rate has risen above the national average. With the provincial economy growing (briskly for Manitoba) around 2% a year, we might have expected ‘some’ declining unemployment rates and labour shortages. But, it’s...
In Canada, regardless of which party you are in - or support - we passionately believe in fairness. No party has a lock on it. Yet when it comes to Asylum seekers, it is hyperbole - political correctness and lack of any economic data or analysis - that seems to...