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1. A population of 100 million comes with a price; Are Canadians willing to pay it?

   Appeared in the National Post, June 2012 A recent series of articles in the Globe & Mail suggested Canada should double its annual intake of immigrants to 500,000 with the goal of raising the country's population to 75 million in 50 years and 100 ...

2. Fiscal Transfers to Immigrants in Canada: Responding to Critics and a Revised Estimate

   This paper responds to the criticism by Mohsen Javdani and Krishna Pendakur of our estimate of the net fiscal transfer to recent immigrants. Specifically, Javdani and Pendakur question our estimate that in fiscal year 2005/06 the average fiscal burden ...

3. A mawkish view of immigration overlooks the facts

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Vancouver Sun columnist Stephen Hume (The big picture shows immigrants are a good bet, May 30) dismisses as disingenuous our study for the Fraser Institute that estimated that recent immigrants admitted between 1987 and 2004 ...

4. Immigration and the Canadian Welfare State 2011

   This publication provides an estimate of the fiscal burden created by recent immigration into Canada and proposes reforms to existing immigrant selection policies to eliminate the burden. It uses a 2006 Census database to estimate the average incomes and ...

5. Immigration and the Welfare State in Canada: Growing Conflicts, Constructive Solutions

   This paper recommends a continuation of the efforts to achieve a better use of the high skill levels of the recent wave of educated immigrants. However, its main recommendation involves a fundamental reform of Canada's immigration selection process ...