Toward principled governance for Canada’s immigration regime Canada has engaged in an immigration policy experiment of momentous importance over the last 25 years: it has almost doubled the flow of new immigrants. This has not only strained Canada s absorptive capacity and the common public culture, and increased the costs of immigration for Canadians, but it has also led the more recent cohorts of immigrants to experience much greater difficulty integrating into their new homeland, causing them to fall more and more below the level of income of the Canadian-born.
Canadians have been disinformed by officials, the intelligentsia, and the media about the real impact of mass immigration on the economy and about its potential capacity to counter the effect of the aging of Canadian population. Canadians have been hoodwinked into accepting that maximum diversity is optimum diversity.
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Table of Contents
- Toward principled governance for Canadas immigration regime 1
- Toward principled governance for Canadas immigration regime 1
- Table of Contents 7
- Introduction 9
- Chapter 1 19
- Dumbfounding Aspects of Canadian Immigration Policy 19
- Introduction 19
- Some stylized facts 24
- The baffling Canadian consensus reversal after the mid-1990s 28
- A frontal attack on this wicked problem may be counterproductive 35
- Scheming virtuously on three fronts a brief sketch 36
- Conclusion 39
- Chapter 2 41
- Immigration and the Solidarity-Diversity-Security Nexus 41
- Introduction 41
- The SDS nexus 42
- Citizenship and the SDS nexus 53
- Conclusion 61
- Chapter 3 63
- Toward Fair Play and Hospitality as a New Frame of Reference 63
- Introduction 63
- Moral revolution social transformation 67
- Frame of reference I 68
- Common public culture under threat 73
- Frame of reference II in the making 75
- Conclusion 85
- Chapter 4 87
- Toward Principled Governance of the Immigration Regime 87
- Introduction 87
- Basic philosophy 88
- A circumspect appraisal of the state of play by officialdom 93
- Toward a new Canadian immigration regime 96
- The moral contracts with newcomers 102
- Terms of integration and default settings 111
- Conclusion 114
- Conclusion 117
- References 123
- Other titles published by 124