Keller: How Canada got immigration right for so long – and then got it very, very wrong
2025/10/11 1 Comment
Good long analysis that captures the dynamic and history well. Money quote:
It was a deliberate policy, but it was also an absence of mind. It was like one of those aviation disasters where the cabin depressurizes, and the pilots, unaware of their impairment via oxygen-deprivation, start making what post-crash investigators will identify as less-than-rational decisions.
Source: How Canada got immigration right for so long – and then got it very, very wrong
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An excellent article. The Century Initiative, in my humble opinion, was naive to the point of idiocy – and extremely arrogant. I thought so then and I think so now. If you made a few critical remarks you were quickly shut down, if not vilified and accused of being a racist. Immigration is great – painful often for those immigrating and leaving all the rich textures of their old life behind – but there can be too much of a good thing; even fluid immigrant nations like Canada, or the US, can only absorb so much at any given time. Also, the nation that results from high levels of immigration ends up by transforming itself – for good or for bad – into a different kind of nation and citizens, new and old, rarely have any say in those transformations.