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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. Let the market determine Canada's immigration level

   Appeared in the Globe and Mail Since the early 1980s, Canada’s immigration selection policies have focussed on the principal applicant’s highest educational achievements and language skills, explicitly to ensure that immigrants would be suitable for ...

3. 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 ...

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. The Effects of Mass Immigration

   Since 1990, Canada's annual rate of immigration has been extremely high-the highest in the world, averaging 0.75% of the population-and has had a significant impact on the size of the population, adding, between 1990 and 2006, 3.9 million (14.2%) to ...

6. 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 ...