Immigration policy wasn’t always about economics alone: Brender | Toronto Star

Good reminder of some of the broader issues and objectives around immigration by Natalie Brender, along with the concomitant need for refugee and family class advocates to develop more rigorous reasoning and rationales.

Just saying that these categories are important and valuable is not enough. After all, even some of the economic arguments that everyone ‘accepts’ have also been criticized by some as simplistic (i.e., Collacott, Paquet) or wrong.

It should be possible for advocates for more refugees and family class to argue more convincingly on the comparative benefits between economic, family class and refugees, than stating what they believe to be an article of faith.

Immigration policy wasn’t always about economics alone: Brender | Toronto Star.