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...
Immigration
Demographics are driving the world. If you ever want a holiday again, welcome refugees and immigrants today
It’s come to my attention that I’m having the same conversation over and over again, and only recently have I figured out why. In almost every conversation of consequence I’ve taken part in recently seems to have a common thread. My wife and her co-worker were talking...
Falling Immigration, a Troubling Signal
Manitoba shows no sign that its policies will be able to maintain the working population, while, over time, returning to annual balanced budgets and cutting taxes to keep the private sector that is here now. This dismal prediction is partially drawn by observing the...
Immigration and Reverse Immigration
Border controls over immigration and views about who has a right to cross national frontiers and settle as an immigrant have evoked impassioned debate and conflicting politics. Such issues raise basic questions about the nation-state, the control over the state’s...
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Population Growth Leads to Challenges
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...
The Notwithstanding Clause
Section 33 of The Charter of Rights and Freedoms allows Parliament and provincial legislatures to override certain Charter rights. Despite criticism from some politicians, academics and the media, the clause is constitutionally-sound and useful. Section 33 has a...
Economic Migrants
Europe is tearing itself apart over the issue of immigration. The essence of the problem is that there are just too many applicants for too few spots. Many of the people seeking to come to Europe are from war-torn countries like Syria, or from failed states in Africa,...
Settlers
The border between Gaza and Israel is a battle zone. Hamas, the party that governs Gaza, is dedicated to the destruction of Israel, and has tried everything from firing rockets over the border and encouraging Gazans to attempt suicidal border breaches, to their latest...
Observations on the Impact of Irregular Crossing of Canada’s Southern Border
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...
Day 22 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar
Day 22 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On day 22 we would like Immigration to Canada to be in the Canadian...
Immigration continues to be a huge issue for Canada, and an expert in the field says it's one of the areas where Justin Trudeau does NOT compare favourably with his legendary father. Randy Boldt is a licensed immigration consultant who has helped to shape policy on...
Canada’s Proud Record on Immigration and Refugees
Recently, there has been much discussion about immigration into Canada, particularly relating to refugees - both crossing from the USA, or those from Syria. It is important to note that every country has its own unique capacity to accept immigration - which is called...
Aruna Papp Interview
Reprinted from Dialogue. Interview by Juanita Julliet Singh On March 9, 2013, Aruna Papp established a record. She became the first Adventist Indo-Canadian woman to represent Canada as a delegate to the United Nations Conference on Global...