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Canadians are living in an age of deep diversity
Sunday, October 16th, 2011
Oct. 14, 2011
… visible minorities are a very heterogeneous group, and… other demographic markers – such as religion and class – can more accurately predict discrimination and other barriers that certain groups face… Two-thirds of respondents in the study view relations between Muslims and non-Muslims negatively. And 60 per cent view relations between aboriginals and non-aboriginals negatively… there is deep diversity, with newcomers living very different realities, and facing very different challenges.
Tags: immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism
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Immigration undergoes a sea change
Friday, October 7th, 2011
Oct. 06, 2011
“We had the globalization of trade, we had the globalization of capital, and now we have the globalization of talent.”… “Increasingly, immigrants who live elsewhere are being viewed as assets… This is a paradigm shift… The notion of brain drain is ridiculed – instead, it is ‘brain circulation.’ The notion is that people can return as tourists, that people can be ambassadors for their home countries, that people can serve as business agents.”
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, standard of living
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Welcome to Tim Hudak’s Tea Party
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Sep 12 2011
… the changes made to our immigration policy several years back require an unprecedented level of education to qualify for immigration to Canada and citizenship. Hudak claims discrimination while invoking alarming discriminatory images… But equity doesn’t mean sameness. Having all qualified hands on deck for a productive economy requires special initiatives for special and different populations in our midst… Playing American-style wedge politics is not helpful, it is hurtful. Our leaders need to be driven by moral purpose and decency designed to bring out the best in us.
Tags: economy, immigration, participation, standard of living, tax
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Cut immigration during recessions: study
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Sep 1, 2011
Canada should reduce immigration during deep economic recession, say the authors of a detailed analysis of the earnings of immigrants over their first 10 years in the country that also touts the benefits of selecting newcomers based on earning potential. Canada should emphasize skill-assessed immigrants because their earning power “consistently and substantially” out-performed other classes of newcomers, the study says.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration
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Chief Justice supports criticism of Kenney
Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Aug 13, 2011
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin applauded the Canadian Bar Association on Saturday for protesting comments Kenney made last winter, when he said Federal Court judges weren’t toeing the line of the Harper government’s immigration policies. “…one of the elements of our commitment to the rule of law is a deep, cultural belief in and confidence in the judiciary.
Tags: ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights
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Poll shows 56 per cent of Canadians think immigrants burden social services
Sunday, August 7th, 2011
August 5, 2011
…it is a misconception that immigrants are costly, Jeffrey Reitz, an expert in immigration and pluralism at the University of Toronto, told Postmedia News. “Immigrants are actually helping us pay for these things, not the other way around,” he said, citing research showing immigrants tend to use social services less than Canadian-born citizens and actually make positive fiscal contributions to the country… the poll found that those Canadians with higher levels of education were more likely to believe the impact of immigration is positive — 62 per cent versus the 39 per cent national average.
Tags: budget, economy, immigration
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More immigrants are in Canada’s national interest
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Aug. 04, 2011
Canada accepted 17 per cent more migrants last year than in 2005. In a time of recession when other Western governments are imposing strict limits on migration, Canada admitted 50,000 more migrants in 2010 than in 2009. Over the past 25 years, the total number of international migrants doubled to more than 200 million. We should expect that number to double again in the next two decades… On the whole, migrants contribute more to the public purse than they receive in benefits… (and) can deliver far more for global prosperity than foreign aid and international trade ever will.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, standard of living
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Age, language are key to better outcomes for immigrants
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
… the demographic peak for current immigrants coincides with the peak for the baby boom and, therefore, increases rather than alleviates problems associated with baby boomers’ impending retirement. While a sensible immigration system can only influence our nation’s age structure a little one way or the other, the immigration system could start to “fill in the Generation X valley” between the hills of the baby boom and baby boom echo.
Tags: economy, immigration, participation, standard of living
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Norway shows we must expose dangerous fictions
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Jul. 30, 2011
There’s nothing wrong with criticizing immigration, even urging that it be stopped completely. Or with condemning “multiculturalism,” however it’s defined, or with arguing that religion, even specific religions, is bad for society. Those are important topics in a democratic society… But these writers have created a larger fiction, one with dangerous implications… they conclude with a millenarian message of impending societal takeover, in which the demographic and cultural fictions are combined into an urgent warning that, unless an unspecified something is done, we’ll all be under “their” command.
Tags: ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation
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Sponsors of ‘rogue’ immigrants must repay welfare, Supreme Court rules
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Jun. 10, 2011
The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the right of federal and provincial governments to collect social-service payments from the sponsors of immigrants. The landmark ruling involves the cases of eight Ontario immigrant families that sponsored relatives from abroad, and who later went on social assistance. Under federal immigration law, the sponsors agreed to repay any welfare payments that their new arrivals may have incurred after they got to Canada.
Tags: budget, immigration, rights
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