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1. It's All About Saving Lives?(2)

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun The unions must use a template every time a government announces that it will ax one public service and replace it with one that saves labour and money. We see his again with the debate in Vancouver about closing the ...

2. It's All About Saving Lives?

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun The unions must use a template every time a government announces that it will ax one public service and replace it with one that saves labour and money. We see this again with the debate in Vancouver about closing the ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Stopping Teachers' Strikes Permanently

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Like most striking workers, BC teachers tend to believe they are underpaid and overworked. And like most employers today, the BC government is facing tough economic times and can’t afford to be generous with its workers. It’s ...

7. 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 ...

8. Do Recent Immigrants impose a Fiscal Burden?

   Appeared in the Province Robert Vineberg in a recent editorial (“Fraser Institute’s immigration analysis is flawed,” May 26) challenged the validity of our analysis, which concluded that recent immigrants impose an annual fiscal burden of about $20 ...

9. 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.   ...

10. 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 ...