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1. Immigration and the Welfare State Revisited: Fiscal Transfers to Immigrants in Canada in 2014

   We estimated in our earlier papers that because of the low average incomes of recent immigrants, the low taxes they pay and the government services they absorb, the fiscal burden on Canadian taxpayers was over $6,000 per capita in fiscal year 2005/06, and ...

2. Canada's Immigrant Selection Policies- Recent Record, Marginal Changes and Needed Reforms

   This paper reviews the history of Canadian immigration policies and documents that the present policies impose on Canadians a fiscal burden of $20 billion annually. The existence of this burden is attributed to flaws in the current immigrant selection ...

3. Canadian taxpayers carry the burden for unlimited family immigration

   Appeared in the National Post There has been much huffing and puffing by politicians, the media and immigrant lobbyists about the government’s plan to reduce the number of parents and grandparents joining their immigrant offspring in Canada next year.   ...

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 ...

6. When is Immigration Bad?

     The basic economic case for immigration is strong. In Canada’s market economy immigrants on average receive wages that match their contribution to output, which in turn they use for their own purposes. As a result, the incomes of Canadians are the same ...