After nearly a decade of continually increasing immigration levels, including two consecutive years of allowing them to reach stratospheric heights (annual population growth topped one million in 2022, and almost hit 1.3 million in 2023) the Trudeau...
At a September 5th press conference in Mississauga, Prime Minister Carney declared the death of a world order based on the endless expansion of free trade, and the dawn of an age of economic nationalism: “The world is changing rapidly. The largest ec...
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Population Institute Canada website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on August 29th, 2025. It is republished here with permission of the author. A city in a state of perpetual transformation I...
In January 2023, the Trudeau government passed the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act – a two-year foreign buyer ban. In February 2024, the ban was extended for another two years, and is now in place until Januar...
The Trump administration’s ominous annexation threats and unprovoked economic aggression have touched off an unprecedented surge in Canadian nationalism that has swept this country like a prairie fire. This swell of patriotism has taken tangible form...
On July 18th, the National Post published an uncritical review of a book titled Toward Prosperity: The Transformation of Atlantic Canada’s Economy in which former pollster Don Mills and economist David Campbell “detail the dramatic improvements newco...
With Donald Trump’s policy of imposing tariffs on imported cars and trucks into the US, and the fact that both Canada and Mexico were hit with 25% tariffs despite being members of USMCA/CUSMA, the Canadian auto industry (by which we mean manufacturin...
“The Canadians don’t understand what they’ve signed. In 20 years, they will be sucked into the US economy” – US trade representative Clayton Yeutter (1987) “We didn’t enter the agreement over tariffs…The Canadian agreement is a political one – to mak...
In January, I was interviewed by independent filmmaker Sangita Iyer of Mettle Films for a two-part documentary on mass immigration. Part One has now been released. Some of my thoughts were included – along with those of other commentators you may kno...
A recent Leger poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute reveals that, despite the Trudeau government’s immigration cut, 62% of Canadians still think immigration levels are too high. This majority includes 6...