Category Archives: public opinion

Centre for Immigration Policy Reform’s Collacott Criticizes “Passports of Convenience” in Vancouver Sun Article

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A new story in the Vancouver Sun looks at the issue of recent immigrants obtaining Canadian citizenship and then returning to their home countries. The phenomenon, which it calls ‘passports of convenience’, has critics and defenders within Canada, with a prominent figure from each side interviewed for the article: The Sun articles elicited opposing perspectives from Yuen Pau Woo, head […]

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Vancouver Sun: Immigration Costs Canada $20 Billion a Year

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In a special to the Vancouver Sun on Tuesday, a Simon Fraser University professor of economics, Herbert Grubel, argues that immigration costs Canadians up to $20 billion a year when all the costs and benefits are tallied. Grubel, who is also a senior research fellow at the Fraser Institute, goes through some of recent findings on the economic effects of immigration […]

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Canada Has Second Largest Immigrant Population In Developed World -StatCan

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Canada is behind only Australia in the relative size of its foreign born population, according to a new Statistics Canada report. Among the G8, Canada’s foreign born component, at 20.6 percent of the total population, is the largest. The statistics follow the trend in recent years of Australia followed by Canada having the highest per capita immigration rates in the […]

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Toronto Star Reports On Government Efforts Against Marriage Fraud

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The Toronto Star, the most widely circulated newspaper in Canada, published a story on Wednesday that describes the marriage sponsorship fraud that authorities are clamping down on and some of the obstacles the anti-abuse measures are imposing on Canadians seeking to sponsor foreign spouses. The article, by the Toronto Star’s immigration reporter, Nicholas Keung, profiles Sarem Soomro, whose marriage sponsorship application […]

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New Poll Shows Most Canadians Favour Immigration Limits

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A new poll conducted by Forum Research for the National Post finds that 70 percent of Canadians favour having limits on the number of immigrants admitted into the country each year. Among Canadians born in another country, 58 percent reported being in favour of having immigration limits, compared to 73 percent of Canadians in born in Canada. Perhaps surprisingly, the poll […]

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Canadian Military Trying to Recruit More Immigrants

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The Canadian Forces are facing a challenge in recruiting enough minorities from mostly immigrant groups, according to a story in politics.ca. Author Colin Horgan notes that among Asian and Arab-Canadians, the interest in careers in the military is low: When Ipsos Reid asked non-Chinese Asian- and Arab-Canadians what line of work they might be interested in pursuing or would recommend to […]

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Globe & Mail: Highly Educated Parents Choose Canada

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A new story in the Globe and Mail, Canada’s largest national newspaper, explores the advantage Canada has over other high income democracies in attracting highly educated emigrants. The article notes that 10 percent of K-12 students in Canada are foreign-born, with the prevalence increasing to over 25 percent in major metropolitan centres like Vancouver and Toronto. It lauds the success of […]

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Financial Posts Advises Canada Follow Australia’s Lead in International Students Policy

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An article in today’s Financial Post by Diane Francis applauds recent changes that have made Canadian immigration policy more similar to Australia’s and recommends that Canada go further in emulating the other nation’s policies. It notes that a recent report by a government advisory panel has called for a doubling of international students in Canada and, like Australia, creating an […]

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Canadians 2nd Most Optimistic About Economy After Brazilians in New Poll

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The results of a new poll commissioned by the International Trade Union Confederation show Canadians behind only Brazilians as the most optimistic citizens of any of the thirteen countries included in the poll. The poll covered the adult populations of Canada, Brazil, United States, Mexico, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, South Africa, Bulgaria, Japan, Belgium, and the United Kingdom, and interviewed […]

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Nearly Three Quarters of Canadians Oppose Increasing Immigration Levels

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A new public opinion poll shows that 72 percent of Canadians oppose increasing immigration levels, a sign that Canada is following in suit a broader trend among Western countries of public sentiment turning against immigration. Despite the opposition to raising the number of immigrants admitted each year, Canadians on average still view immigration as having more of a positive impact […]

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